Monographs are not necessarily books.
Doctoral dissertations and master's dissertations, generally more than 40 thousand-50 thousand words, can be called academic monographs.
According to the length of academic papers, it can be divided into three types: single academic paper, series academic papers and academic monographs.
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History of monograph development:
Lu Cheng's Introduction to the Origin of Buddhism in China: "In the study of the history of Buddhism in China, Ye Jing Huang Yang was the earliest. He has published some monographs such as Speech, Research and Shi Jing.
Ancient monographs were compiled with bamboo slips, and the texture was bamboo. Later, with the invention of paper, the texture of the monograph became paper.
With the emergence of computers, monographs have gone further, from the initial paper form to the computer software form, that is, computer software works.
For computer software works, the storage medium is disk, which is the most advanced monograph texture form at present.
Classification of academic papers:
1, submit a paper
Articles written by researchers for academic journals, magazines or academic publishing houses.
2. Proposition paper
Articles on scientific research projects submitted by higher-level leading departments to scientific researchers according to social needs, or articles on scientific research projects submitted by tutors to graduate students and college students.
3. Graduation thesis
Generally speaking, it refers to the papers written by graduating college students (undergraduates).
4. Thesis
Generally speaking, it refers to a thesis written by a person (master or doctor) who requires a degree.
The latter two categories can be said to mainly refer to papers written by students at different levels in colleges and universities.
5, computer software papers
The above categories are mainly papers based on paper. According to the carrier of academic papers, there are also papers in computer disk storage format, which can be submitted to electronic journals for publication [4], such as China Journal of Multimedia and Network Teaching (Online Edition)? .
This kind of paper includes not only general graphics papers, but also computer software papers (there are many computer software works in reserve). At present, many newspapers and magazines are transitioning to the electronic version. In the future, although the electronic version cannot replace the paper version, it will become the main carrier of newspapers and magazines.
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