大脑容量与论文篇幅

Brain Volume and Paper Size

古人类学证明:在从古猿到人的转变中,大脑容量不断增长;期刊比较证明:在学术发展过程中,论文篇幅不断增长。尽管如此,如"大脑越大越聪明"之虚妄,"论文越长越好"同样无法成立。目前,受核心期刊、学位论文、基金课题对篇幅要求之影响,存在论文写作者凑字数导致论文篇幅异常增大的现象。大脑容量异常增大意味着大脑疾病,论文篇幅异常增大意味着论文失范。体系导向写法、阐释自明概念、无谓历史分期、欧式句法、"车轱辘话"、大段引用、堆积案例、空谈意义、沉溺描述、对策癖好等都会导致论文篇幅异常增大,其根本原因在于论证无力。论文之为论文,核心即在论证,故应关注论证质量,而非刻意增大篇幅,以求要言不烦,名论不刊。

Paleoanthropologists have proven that brain volume kept growing while the transition from ape to man ;the comparative studies of academic journal suggests papers nowadays occupy much more pages than before .However ,“the longer ,the better” for the paper is as w rong as“the bigger the brain ,the cleverer the man” .Currently ,some authors enlarge their paper deliberately to meet the demands of size to publish in major academic journals ,to get degrees or to finish projects with funds .An abnormally large brain suggests brain disease while an abnormally large paper means academic anomie .The abnormality can be caused by many rea‐sons ,such as system -oriented writing style ,interpretation of self -evident concepts ,unnecessary time dividing ,English style Chi‐nese ,excess wordage ,long passages of quotations ,piling up cases ,empty talk of significance ,indulging in description ,addiction to policy suggestion .They all rooted in impotence of argument ,while argument is the key to any academic paper .So ,we shall focus on argument rather than enlarging paper on purpose to make our opinions time -honored and maximize our ideas with minimum words .