As the second lecture of the School of Foreign Languages Academic Frontier and 110th Anniversary Lecture Series, Professor Chen Xianglan of the University of International Business and Economics gave an academic lecture Generation and Extension of Academic Inspiration in Room 326 of Foreign Languages Building in the afternoon of September 19. Vice President He Shaobin presided over the lecture, and some teachers and graduate students of the college attended.
Professor Chen's lecture elaborated the topic in three parts. The first part is the novelty and interest of inspiration. Prof. Chen started from the internet buzzwords and told everyone to be sensitive to the things around and good at discovery. The second part is the extension of academic inspiration and updating of methods. Prof. Chen cited many vivid examples, such as the relationship between part and whole, metaphor and context, to illustrate that research methods should be constantly updated and materials should be collected, vividly illustrating that academics are not as difficult as students think. The third part focuses on the relationship between academic inspiration and interdisciplinarity. Engaging in research cannot be confined to just one current discipline, and Professor Chen takes himself as an example of his own research on the combination of language and psychology, the extension of the objective and the micro, and the application of theory and empirical evidence. The core of academic writing is based on academic inspiration, which comes from reading, from accumulation and observation of life, from careful listening, from diligent thinking and writing, and from continuous innovation of scientific research methods.
Prof. Chen's lively and in-depth lecture made everyone understand that academic writing is by no means unattainable, and that it is necessary to find academic writing inspiration from reading and scientific breakthroughs from methodological updates. The lecture discussed the excavation and extension of academic ideas with concrete examples, which gave great encouragement and impetus to teachers and students, especially graduate students to carry out research with innovative ideas.
(Reported by the College of Foreign Languages office; Written by Ouyang Shu and Kuang Zhongmin; Translated by Li Huixian)
