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The roles and responsibilities of supervisors from Murray 2002, Oliver 2004, Guide on Thesis Supervision 2010-2011, Smith 2003a, 2003b,
Zelditch 1990, Patchan et al. 2009, Dragga 1991 can be summarized as follows: a As guides: Establishing a framework for supervision including
arrangements for regular meetings; Meeting with the student regularly following the agreed schedules of minimum meeting is eight times STPB 2012 and with a
clear agenda; They provide guidance about the nature of research from developing a proposal and in the writing of thesis; b As advisors: They provide advice on the
research design, data collection and data analysis, discussing any hazardsproblems involved in the research work and how these can best be dealt
with; c As masters: They treat the student professionally; being on the lookout for signs of behavioural changes; d As managers: They assess supervisory
qualities needed and delivering each of the qualities with expertise, ease and care; e As models: They are active researchers and publishers; f As sponsors: They
become sources of information about, and aid in obtaining opportunities; g As supporters: They give emotional and moral encouragement; h As tutors: They
give specific feedback on writer‘s performance; i As coaches: They give
comments that are likely to focus on solutions; and j As judges: Their comments are likely to focus on the problems so that writers become aware of their writing
weaknesses. Supervisors are expected to have and to do those ideal roles and responsibilities but it is likely hard to have the perfect ones. The other important
responsibility of supervisors is to give feedback during the research supervision. In this study, supervisor responsibility is to provide guide to write from
theses from beginning until the end, to have regular meetings and make sure that the students can produce quality theses and complete the theses within the
allocated time.