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For the last several years, KAP(Korean as an Academic Purpose) learners have been enormously extended. As KAP learners' needs have been highly arising, the significance of efficient KAP curriculum is emphasized. Especially, writing of an academic thesis has been commonly pointed out as one of the most difficult academic tasks in KAP curriculum by KAP learners because of its difficult academic literacy. It is high time for learner-oriented directions for writing of an academic thesis to be suggested in KAP. The purpose of this study is to examine a text producer's opinion-expressed discourses(OED) appeared in KAP learners' theses and to find its characteristics according to the degree of performative strength, so to suggest effective educational directions in writing an academic thesis in KAP. The reasons why this study would concentrate on OED are summarized as followings. Firstly, OED is fundamentally related to the purpose of text production, which is to insist an text-producer's academic opinion and to persuade text-receivers to accept it. Secondly, unlike unmarked descriptive discourses regarding general facts, OED in the academic thesis is generally presented with various marked expressions accompanying academic literacy, which are to be trained. Finally, effective learner-oriented education can be possible when it is suggested based upon analysis of learners' language itself. For the sake of this analysis, OED in KAP learners' theses are collected and are divided into strong expressions and weak expressions by the degree of performative strength. Outstanding characteristics of each OED also are examined. Furthermore, these characteristics are compared with those of Korean text producers. On the basis of this comparison, educational directions in writing an academic thesis for KAP learners are suggested.