Muharrem Ergin

Criticism is the art of studying over literature and art works according to certain measurements and reasoning them. One of the most important criticism areas as music, cinema, theater, sports, history and philosophy is literary criticism. Literary criticism is, with its shortest definition, to evaluate a literary work completely according to certain measurements.
Being a gender of literature, criticism's history dates back to Platon and Aristo. Criticism in our literature which dates very back, has always been oral and hasn't go beyond some technical concerns. Criticism has arised as a literary gender after getting in touch with European thought and art environments.
It is criticism that will maintain academic studies (thesis, article) as literature and art works to be evaluated and reviewed according to certain measurements. Academic criticism has two fits. The first fit is to search for an answer to the question that what contributes this study to science. The second fit is to control the correspondence of study to ethic principles. This control work is left to arbitrary ship instutions in periodical publications widespread by advancing in last ten years. -Arbitroryship instutions which can be another paper's matter are not to be mentioned here.-
In last ten years, in Turkey, - shall go rather before 1982 foundation of Higher Education Counsil- rising number of universities has bring the consequence of rising number of academicians and correspondingly there has been an obvious increase in academic studies. Academic Wage Incentive application has also affected the increase in scientific publications. In spite of these positive developments, rise in academicals violation and plagiarism commitments in press, requires academicals criticism and control ten times more.
Today, master thesis presented in our universities passes through control of 3 members including advisor, doctorate thesis passes through control of 5 faculty member - generally that members are friends of advisor- The majority of thesis presented to National Thesis Centre closed to the benefit of researchers for 3 years.  Namely, questioning the scientific qualifications of these master theses is obstructed; after a while because these thesis lose their actuality, they don't seen worth to criticize.
It is almost impossible to see serious criticism articles concerning scientific books. Alternatively, introduction articles written by master or doctorate student who are somehow related to writers of books, figures pages of magazines. Introduction articles ,written by young man who are at the beginning of their academicals life and not internalized the principles of scientific thinking, there is not even 2 pages of properly printed articles of whom, do mean nothing but coming news about a work.
In this paper, the importance of academicals criticism and beautiful examples, with the qualification of the introduction articles written by master and doctorate students is going to be emphasized. In identification of introduction articles, the records of Millî Folklor magazine, which's all issues subordinated in electronic form is going to be used.