大四必知：写论文前要知道的10件事_BEC初级作文

大四必知：写论文前要知道的10件事

Are you putting the final touches to a dissertation? Let's pass on some tips to those who'll be doing them next year.

你的论文已经进入最后的润色阶段了么？那就留些小贴士给明年写论文的孩子看吧。

Writing a dissertation can be one of the hardest tasks a university student has to accomplish – but it will come to an end.

写论文可能是大学生最艰巨的任务之一了——不过总是会写完的。

The sun is shining but many students won't see the daylight. Because it's that time of year again – dissertation time.

阳光好灿烂呀，不过许多同学要错过了，因为又是一年一度的论文季了。

Luckily for me, my D-Day (dissertation hand-in day) has already been and gone. But I remember it well.

幸运的是，我已经不用赶交论文的截止日了，不过我记得可清楚了。

The 10,000-word spiral-bound paper squatted on my desk in various forms of completion was my Allied forces; the history department in-tray was my Normandy. And when Eisenhower talked about a "great crusade toward which we have striven these many months", he was bang on.

桌上码着螺旋装订的万字论文，完成的形式各种各样，那是我的同盟军；历史系的交稿托盘是我要攻占的诺曼底。艾森豪威尔说为了这场圣战我们已经努力了许多个月，说得对极了。

I remember first encountering the Undergraduate Dissertation Handbook, feeling my heart sink at how long the massive file took to download, and began to think about possible (but in hindsight, wildly over-ambitious) topics. Here's what I've learned since, and wish I'd known back then…