COLLEGES and faculties in the University are crafting formal thesis guidelines to establish a systematic process in thesis writing for students and faculty members.
Clarence Batan, director of the Research Center on Culture, Education and Social Issues, said the thesis guidelines would give students and faculty members a clear idea of the thesis advising and writing process as well as their respective responsibilities.
College of Education Dean Allan de Guzman said a clear-cut thesis writing guide should encourage students to pursue higher studies.
COLLEGES and faculties in the University are crafting formal thesis guidelines to establish a systematic process in thesis writing for students and faculty members.
Clarence Batan, director of the Research Center on Culture, Education and Social Issues, said the thesis guidelines would give students and faculty members a clear idea of the thesis advising and writing process as well as their respective responsibilities.
College of Education Dean Allan de Guzman said a clear-cut thesis writing guide should encourage students to pursue higher studies.
“It will serve two purposes: one is to guide the advisers as to how to approach that particular learning experience and second, to also give clear-cut guidelines for our students as to how to go about with their respective theses,” he said in an interview.
“I have always been an advocate of strengthening thesis writing in the undergraduate level because if the undergraduate curriculum is a preparation for the graduate school, we have to strengthen it,” de Guzman added.
Jeremaiah Opiniano, thesis coordinator of the University’s journalism program, said a formal thesis guideline would help draw students and faculty members toward research.
“Overall, many college students — speaking in the social sciences even in the absence of empirical data — hate thesis writing. That general observation impacts on how the thinking process occurs, the identification of variables yet to be studied, and the correct execution of data-gathering activities to answer precise research questions,” he said.
The thesis guideline will help students produce theses that generate new knowledge, he said.
Only the College of Rehabilitation Sciences has general thesis guidelines for students. Their guidelines include rules on thesis writing, advising, oral defense, post-defense requirements and publication.
The Faculty of Arts and Letters has produced a draft that will be fine-tuned by thesis coordinators, Batan said.
Drafts of the thesis guideline must be submitted to the Office of the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs by Oct. 15.
Writing and defending a thesis is mandatory for all UST students prior to graduation.
However, there is no systematic process between students and thesis advisers because of the absence of guidelines.
The University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila have thesis guidelines for every department. With reports from Mia Arra C. Camacho
