翻译硕士专业学位毕业论文调研与写作探索——以15所高校首批MTI毕业生学位论文为例

The Current Approach to the Writing of MTI Theses and the Ways for Its Improvement:A Quantitative Study Based on Data from 15 Universities and Colleges

本文对第一批翻译硕士专业学位(MTI)15所试点院校首届毕业生的学位论文选题及部分论文进行了调研分析,借鉴相关MTI院校和其他学科专业学位的毕业论文写作经验,提出MTI学位论文应逐步向以实践型学位报告为主的论文模式过渡,同时还应加强对学生借助理论手段系统归纳总结能力的培养以及严格遵守学术规范写作方法的训练。

Based on the data collected from 15 Chinese universities and colleges which were the first to offer MTI programs, we have conducted a quantitative analysis of the selection of research topics for their students’graduate theses. It is found that a large number of MTI theses are academic-oriented, following the model of MA theses, while translation project reports and translation experiment reports constitute just a tiny part. It is also found that many MTI students wrote up their theses either simply summarizing their translation practices or mechanically borrowing some stereotyped theoretical framework, without showing an awareness of basic research methodology and academic norms. To deal with these problems, we recommend that a report-based model be adopted gradually for MTI theses, and that MTI students receive a more rigorous training on the way to conduct a systematic and theory-informed analysis of translation practices.