On November 3, 2023, the Editor-in-Chief of Science, Technology, and Publishing Magazine of Tsinghua University Press and Executive Director of the Second Council of Editing and Publishing History Committee of China Journalism History Association, Su Lei, was invited to give a lecture on “Strategies for Improvement of Editing and Publishing Essays” to the master and doctoral students of Cultural Industry Management of College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Editor Su Lei was invited to give a lecture entitled “Strategies for Improving Writing in Editorial and Publishing” to the master and doctoral students of the Cultural Industry Management Program of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Mr. Wang Zhong, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Associate Professor Xiao Dai Bai, Director of the Graduate Program in Cultural Industry of the City University of Macau, attended the seminar.

Mr. So Lei first led the students to understand the attributes, mission, and functions of the editorial and publishing industry. After combining the research background of the students, he analyzed the strategy of upgrading thesis writing from the perspective of the editor-in-chief of CSSCI journals. He started to explain in detail the requirements of thesis selection, common problems, sources of the selected topics, logical structure, revision opinions, and submission methods.

Thesis writing is a necessary skill for scientific researchers, and it is also a need for innovation in this era. Mr. Su Lei pointed out that it is the core of thesis writing to have a clear sense of problem and to explore the nature and rules of things by scientific method. Academic paper is not from experience to experience, or from documents to articles, but based on the reality of the problem and through a large number of material collection and analysis, and then proposed solutions and theoretical sublimation. A qualified academic paper should have the five elements of correct orientation, innovative topic selection, comprehensive logic, practical content and word-for-word fluency. Editor-in-chief Su encourages students to gain insights into the outside world and to select innovative topics by paying attention to the hot and difficult points of reform, information on journal calls for papers, and the dynamics of publishing practices.

Through cutting-edge concepts, practical experiences and vivid cases, Mr. Su drew a comprehensive picture of thesis writing and journal publication for master and doctoral students. The whole seminar had an active atmosphere with frequent interactions between students and teachers. At the end of the seminar, Mr. Wang Zhong, on behalf of teachers and students, thanked Editor-in-Chief Su Lei for his enthusiastic sharing and encouraged students to write and submit papers actively.