A Critical Review of "The Model for Proposal and Thesis Writing" in the Seminary Schools

Thesis writing is among the scientific and research activities of the students at the higher levels of the Hawza i.e. level 3 and level 4, in which the students’ ability in writing and producing new religious knowledge are expected to flourish. The seminary has drafted a model for thesis writing which is required by the seminary students. These models have multiple methodological problems. Using the descriptive-analytical method, this paper presents a critique of these models in three sections: in the form-based critique section, based on the model approved by the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, the apparent spelling errors and the problems with fonts have been addressed. The structural critique section deals with the defects in the "logical presentation of content" in these models. As the last part of this critical paper, content critique addresses the problems of these models in eight pivots, such as ambiguity in some concepts, the unwarranted insistence on the necessity of providing a hypothesis in all theses, wrong references etc.