The phrase "defend the thesis" is correct and commonly used in academic writing.
It typically refers to the act of presenting and supporting one's argument or ideas in a written work, such as a research paper or dissertation. Example: In order to graduate, students must successfully defend their thesis in front of a panel of faculty members.
Finally, the student will defend the thesis orally before the two non-adviser readers.
The student will meet privately with his/her thesis committee to defend the thesis and to discuss any needed revisions.
When approved, the candidate for graduation with honors works for two semesters (for 4 credits each semester) to research, write, and then defend the thesis.
University Oral ExamPh.D. students must submit a completed draft of the dissertation to the reading committee at least one month before the student expects to defend the thesis in the University oral exam.
Typically, Ezekiel felt it necessary not only to add a summary to the thesis in the local language of the people he was writing about, but also to defend the thesis for a second time orally in front of the local people of Bunyore, an outdoor affair that lasted all day and included not only deep discussions amongst the local people but also music and dance.
Bhāvavevika advances several arguments to defend the thesis that ultimately all are intrinsically unreal.
Writers such as Sudarshana Suri and Venkatanatha continued to elaborate and defend the theses of the master, and much of their writing is polemical.
Prabhakara defended the thesis that words primarily mean either some course of action (karya) or things connected with action.
Rejecting Shankara's conception of reality, Ramanuja defended the thesis that brahman is a being with infinitely perfect excellent virtues, a being whose perfection cannot be exceeded.
Among pre-Shankara commentators on the Vedanta-sutras, Bhartriprapancha defended the thesis of bhedabheda, and Bhaskara (c. 9th century) closely followed him.
Converted by his brother Asanga to the Yogachara, Vasubandhu wrote the Vijnapti-matrata-siddhi ("Establishment of the Thesis of Cognitions Only"), in which he defended the thesis that the supposedly external objects are merely mental conceptions.
