在論文答辯時，不用太緊張，把老師問的問題認真回答就好，應該不會為難同學們的。
英語論文答辯常見問題
簡單的問題：
What's the significance of your paper?
What's the originality of your paper?
這類問題很常見，你對自己的論文較熟悉就行。
難點的問題：
老師可能會挑出你寫出來的某一點很細節的東西來問，比如說：別人認為這個人物是這樣的，為什麼你會認為是那樣的，而這兩種看法剛好相反?
我答辯的時候老師問我：我寫的是s的《納尼亞傳奇》。老師問：作者寫的Narnia真的會實現嗎?這就很難回答了，因為站在作者的觀點是有可能的，從現實的角度看幾乎不可能了。
答辯的時候，一般是不會翻論文的。因為你必須對自己的論文很熟悉，另一方面，老師問的問題，你讀答案也不太好。除非老師說翻到某一頁，你這一頁有什麼觀點，解釋一下為什麼?這才會翻論文看。
老師有的.時候也不問什麼難問題，只是指出你的論文那個地方修改，因為最後答辯後還要交終稿存檔，所以會讓你繼續改改格式之類的。
建議：要對自己的Bibliography(參考文獻)有一定的瞭解，有的老師會問某本文獻裡講了什麼觀點，這類問題籠統回答一下就好，所以你得知道自己用了什麼文獻。
論文答辯英文開場白
Good morning, professors and everyone. I come from JMU College. I am XXX and my supervisor is prof XXX. With her sincere and intellectual guidance, I have finished my paper.
The title of my paper is An Analysis of Ahab’s Personality Tragedy in Moby Dick. I choose this title as my topic due to the following reasons. Firstly, I am fond of literature works , especially gothic literature works. Secondly, I am quite familiar with this work as this is one of the texts in our American literature course . Last but not least , Moby-Dick is widely recognized as the summit not only of Melville’s art but of American nineteenth-centry fiction.
The purpose of this essay is to study Captain Ahab,the role in Moby-Dick, whose leg was bitten by the white whale in his process of the whaling. After losing his leg, he determined to revenge Moby Dick and tried to kill it. In order to revenge, Ahab ultimately dooms the crew of the Pequod (save for Ishmael) to death by his obsession with Moby Dick. By taking the comprehensive analysis perspective of Moby-Dick, this thesis will point out that the main characteristics of Ahab.
This paper consists of three parts. Part one presents an introduction to the Social Background and the life of the Author Herman Melvillehe ,Part two presents The Main Characteristics of Ahab. there are three aspects have been divided to analyze his characters: his monomania , his selfishness, and his individualism. Part three presents The Consequences of Ahab's Personality Tragedy.
OK, that's all. Thank you !
Questions :
1. 怎樣運用理論去分析的
2. 針對你論文中的某個商標翻譯而考你噢，所以要熟悉你論文中作為例子的翻譯
3. 什麼是monomania(偏執狂)?
4. 白鯨記的象徵意義有哪些
5. 亞哈船長為何復仇