On April 18, 2017, Professor Li Defeng, Director of the Center for Translation and Communication of the University of Macau, as well as Chairman of the World Translation Education Alliance (WITTA), was invited to be the guest speaker of the 8th Education Forum, which was organized by the Faculty of Education at City University of Macau. Professor Li brought a brilliant speech entitled Academic Norms, Research Methods, and the Publication of SSCI Journal Articles! This lecture attracted many students and young teachers from FED, FHSS, FITM, FUMS, FOB to join.

Dating back to the studying experience many years ago, at the School of Education, University of Alberta in Canada, Professor Li shared a series of core issues about academic research and paper publication, especially from multi-perspective as doctoral students, scholars, reviewers and student supervisors. First of all, Professor Li indicated that under the mechanism of anonymous peer review, the quality of the submitted paper is the key element for the publication in the international academic journals. Prof. Li suggested that the topic selection needs to grasp the principle of "international perspective but Chinese elements". At the same time, Prof. Li emphasized that the research methods and thesis writing should be improved continually. In addition, Professor Li also elaborated the Western academic norms and the basic paper structure in detail. Finally, Professor Li shared many insightful points, including topic selection, empirical research method, teamwork collaboration, academic spirit etc. Professor Li sincerely encouraged everyone that the paper publication needs an indomitable spirit, "If Li Defeng can do, you can! "

After the lecture, an online satisfaction investigation was conducted. Many participants positively commented on Professor Li's lecture, as useful content, easy to understand, benefited a lot! They also expressed that this lecture would be very insightful for them to clarify the research question, choose research problems, develop academic research and prepare paper publication in the future!