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Published or Perish? Recently, many universities require each graduate student to have at least one paper published before getting the masters degree, which is considered as a good way to evaluate their students. To my opinion, I strongly support this way of evaluating and hope it could be more acceptable. For one thing, paper publishing is a reflection and also a standard of students academic performance and social capabilities. The school can weight how excellent students academic abilities are and how is the performance of execution and communication kept by the students by using this way. It can be a typical new and effective way for school to select talented person besides the traditional way. For another, it also benefit students. They can get an additional way to prove their abilities by paper publishing, it is good for those students who are not good at examinations but research and execution. Whats more, by this requirement, undergraduate students can have an opportunity to be prepared for the learning process and pattern of graduate school. From the foregoing, we can easily draw a conclusion that it is beneficial for universities to require their students to have at least one paper published before getting the masters degree. Universities can have a wider and more comprehensive way to evaluate their students. Therefore, the undergraduate students who want higher education should practice and be prepared for their future.Publish or PerishIt is well-known that Chinese have made great progress in science since the founding of new China, and it is no exaggeration to say that we are leaders in some realm. Of course, it is the achievement of thousands of hard-working scientists. However, I do not agree with the value system Publish or Perish.To begin with, there are some competitions in science, especially in some research hot-spots, such as the biotechnology. Sometimes, we may find some papers are identical with our researches in hand. Actually, we find the same results just several days later. Unfortunately, we could not publish it again and we have wasted all the time, energy and money. In order to publish a certain number of papers every year, scientists must work hard day and night, therefore, they have no time to do physical exercises. It has been proved that scientists are usually not in good physical conditions. Recently, to survive, some scientists have to plagiarize others ideas or fabricate test data. Plagiarism is not only harmful to our academia but also detrimental to our society.Graduatestudent,primarilyinterestedinacademicandscience,areexpectedtohaveatleastonepaperpublishedthanthosewhograduatedtenyearsago,andfarmoreconcernedwiththeproblemsofresearch. Firstly,publicationisoneofthefewmethodsatastudentsdisposaltodemonstratetheiracademiccapabilities,andtheattentionthatpublicationsbringtoscholarsandtheirsponsoringinstitutionscanfacilitateprogressthroughthefieldandcontinuedfunding.Studentswhoneverpublished orwhofocusonactivitieswhichdonotresultinpublicationssuchasundergraduates,mayfindthemselvesoutofcontentionforavailabletenure-trackpositions.Secondly,Research-orienteduniversitiesmayattempttomanagetheunhealthyaspectsofthepublish-or-perishpractices,buttheiradministratorsoftenarguethatsomepressuretoproducecutting-edgeresearchisnecessarytomotivatestudentsearlyintheircareerstofocusonresearchadvancement,andlearntobalanceitsachievementwiththeotherresponsibilitiesoftheprofessorialrole.Finally,inordertopublish,graduatestudentswillreadmoreandmoreacademicliteratureandacquireoftheexperienceofpublishing.Thus, I believe thatitcanmakegreat contribution to us andimprovescientificresearchability.In a word, Publish or Perish is not suitable for scientists.PublishorPerishNowadays, it is well-known that Chinese graduatestudenthave made a great progress in science, especially, in some research hotspots, such as published paper. Because frequent publication is one of a few methods at scholars disposal to demonstrate academic talent. However, there are advantages and disadvantages about it.Cutting-edge research is necessary to motivate graduatestudent or scholars early in their careers to focus on research advancement, and learn to balance its achievement with the other responsibilities of the professorial role.Graduatestudent at most Chinese mainland universities are required to do research and publish articles just as their colleagues or classmates do in other countries. But in China, gettingthemastersdegree depends largely on one thing: The number of research papers he or she manages to publish. Theoretically, if more papers are published, the chance that these papers are cited by others, will be greater. The only reason to explain whats happening in China now is that the quality of those papers are extremely low. And the pressure to publish-or-perish also detracts from the time and effort graduatestudent can devote to their research.I personally hold the point of view that the pressure to publish has been cited as a cause of poor work being submitted to academic journals. In fact, failure to publish research results is by far the most common and worrying form of scientific and ethical misconduct in research.The only reason to explain whats happening in China now is that the quality of those papers is extremely low. And the pressure to publish-or-perish also detracts from the time and effort graduate student can devote to their research.In a word, Publish or Perish is not suitable for scientists. I personally hold the point of view that the pressure to publish has been cited as a cause of poor work being submitted to academic journals.
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