On April 8, 2024, the Associate Professor Wei Wenchi of the School of Public Administration of Tsinghua University held an online lecture for the Shool of Public Administration, with the theme of “the Academic Research and Publication in English Top Journals”. The lecture, chaired by Associate Professor Lu Yangfan, also attracted more than 200 young researchers and students from related majors in many universities across the country to participate.
Associate Professor Wei Wenchi systematically explained the subject orientation of academic research, literature reading, research question setting, theories and hypotheses, research methods and publication strategies, etc., to help the audience fully understand the basic process and requirements for the high-level scientific research results. In combination with his rich experience and personal experience, he focused on explaining how to select good academic journals and literature for reading, how to deal with the relationship between different disciplinary perspectives and specific research fields, how to judge the merits of research problems and choose appropriate research methods and other issues.
Professor Wei stressed that young students should read more quality journal papers, and when writing literature reviews, they should look for the limitations of existing literature according to their own research positioning, and avoid generalities. At the same time, he pointed out that theory is the most important thing in research and writing, and we should open our horizons through extensive reading and knowledge accumulation, and select specific theories that are helpful to research in the vast ocean of human knowledge. In many ways, the requirements for high-level research are the same in both English and Chinese contexts. These experience offers a very useful writing guide for a wide audience.
