This book is the product of the authors' eight years of experience in teaching the course, " Writing Graduation Thesis" . It has been used and repeatedly revised at the School of Foreign Languages of Hebei Normal University. It was the joint efforts of both the authors and the editor of Beijing Institute of Technology Press, Miss Liang Tonghua, that have brought the publication of this book. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks also to those eight groups of students who have used this book and given their comments. We will also give our thanks to four English graduates who kindly give our permission to use their graduation thesis as samples for discussion.We apologize for any inconvenience and shortcomings in the book and hope that we will be able to make it better in the near future.

Chapter 1 Introduction:What is graduation thesis for BA?

Chapter 2 Choosing a topic:Writing about linguistics and TEFL

Chapter 3 Choosing a topic:Writing about literature and translation studies

Chapter 4 Reviewing related literature and evaluating materials

Chapter 5 Organizing ideas and writing the outline

Chapter 6 Writing the first draft

Chapter 7 Revising and editing

Chapter 8 Documentation:citing and listing sources

Chapter 9 Writing the abstract

Chapter 10 Preparing for the final draft and oral defense

Bibilography

Appendices

Appendix A Guidelines for writing graduation thesis

Appendix B Guidelines for scoring graduation thesis

Appendix C Sample graduation theses