一、主要内容和基本要求

1. 主要内容

本文将通过分析在吴精美童年时期和其成年之后与母亲吴素云之间从矛盾冲突到最终理解的故事情节阐释其中的文化内涵：移民母亲和在美国生长的女儿间的冲突与和解实质上体现了中美文化间的碰撞与交融，中美文化从冲突到融合是必然的发展趋势，这同时也是作者对于多元文化和谐发展的期待和信心。

本论文要围绕下个几个问题展开：

1)母女冲突融合在小说中是如何产生的？

2)母女冲突和融合在小说中是如何表现的？

3)母女冲突和融合的文化内涵是怎样体现的？

The paper will analyze the causes of the conflicts and the reconciliation between Jing-mei Woo’s and her mother Suyuan Woo to interpretate their cultural implications：the conflicts and the reconciliation between the Chinese immigrant mother and the American-raised daughter reflect the conflicts and the reconciliation between Chinese culture and American culture. It reveals a necessary trend in the multicultural development and also the author’s belief in the harmonious multicultural development and expectation for it.

The paper will center on three research questions as follows:

1. How do the conflicts and the reconciliation between the mother and the daughter bring about in the novel?

2. How do the conflicts and the reconciliation between the mother and the daughter represent in the novel?

3. How do the cultural implications of the conflicts and the reconciliation between the mother and the daughter reveal in the novel?

2. 基本要求

2.1首先认真研读文本以及指定的参考资料并写出文献综述；在文献综述的基础上考虑论文题目与主题思想(thesis statement)，其描述要求如下：

A thesis statement is a single sentence that formulates both your topic and your point of view. In a sense, the thesis statement is your answer to the central question or problem you have raised. 

Writing this statement will enable you

1)to see where you are heading and 

2)to remain on a productive path as you plan and write. 

3)What purpose will you try to achieve in the paper? 

4)Do you want to describe something, explain something, argue for a certain point of view, or persuade your reader to think or do something?

2.2 要求论点明确，举例分析透彻并支持论点；

2.3 要求行文通顺、逻辑性强、文风平实、资料详实、引述有出处；

2.4 要求参考资料为学术出版物，保证其学术严肃性、资料准确性、及其学术价值的长期有效性。