Thesis writing process is a demanding process which is defined as complicated by both postgraduate students and academicians. That process which is supposed to be well-structured with the aid of laid schemes may results in problems reaching dimensions which decrease daily functionality of many postgraduate students and academicians. Moreover, those problems may even cause psychological decays in them. On the other hand, it is possible to meet students who suppose that they go through that process in a more peaceful way. As it is seen from this statement, each thesis writing process contains subjective experiences in itself. Nevertheless, no study has been found in Turkish literature review about this subject which is worth the effort of studying just for this nominative feature of it. Nevertheless, this subject is eligible for being a research subject for both the subjective experiences it contains and for being a situation affecting the postgraduate students and academicians deeply whose number is increasing day by day. Taking into account all of these, the aim of the present study is to examine the opinions of postgraduate students and academicians who has experienced thesis writing process. This study in which a qualitative research method is adopted can be called as phenomenological and the data will be gathered by interviews. The interviews is planned to be made with eight postgraduate students and/or academicians four of whom are male and four of whom are female and a semi-structured interview form is planned to be used prepared by the researchers as a data collecting tool. The interviews will be made face-to-face with the participants by the researchers. The data will be analysed with content analysis method by using Nvivo qualitative data analysis software. The findings of the study will be discussed in the light of related literature and the suggestions about the results will be presented.

Key Words: Postgraduate students, Academicians, Thesis writing process