Course detail

Academic Sources and Citations

FSI-0ZCAcad. year: 2023/2024

The course is focused on FME students who are studying the third or higher degree. The course provides the information about searching relevant sources suitable for writing the thesis and about the citation principles.

Searching available sources is accompanied by evaluation of relevant professional information. The chapters about citations give the ethics knowledge about using the someone else's source and gives the attention to the citation of the sources which has been used. The course deals with electronics information sources and the way of using the citation manager Citace PRO.

The course is held in a distance form, through e-learning in Moodle. It uses exercises, videotutorials, testing.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

There’s no need to have any special or professional skills. This course is extension of the 2IV course - Information literacy. It adapts the teaching for the last degree of bachelor and engineering study.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The condition for finalization the course is fulfill all tasks at least 50 % and working out or submitting the final task.


This course is lead in e-learning form. The faculty tutors check if the students has finished all of course's parts and the quality of processed or submitted tasks.

Aims

This course is aimed at practical usage of information sources in writing the diploma theses and citations.
The aim is to teach the student to work with the available electronic information sources and make the citations for a different type of documents.
The course gives the information about the copyright.
The student should know after graduating:
- search and choose the relevant source of informations
- know and use professional information sources
- be able effectively use various searching engines
- evaluate the data quality
- make the citations for a different type of documents
- work with the citation manager
- understand ethical and legal standards which accompanied using the sources

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

BUZAN, Tony. Mind Map Mastery: The Complete Guide to Learning and Using the Most Powerful Thinking Tool in the Universe. London: Watkins Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-1786781413. (EN)
FARKAŠOVÁ, Blanka; GARAMSZEGI, Tereza; JANSOVÁ, Linda; KONEČNÝ, Lukáš; KRČÁK, Martin etal. Výklad normy ČSN ISO 690:2022 (01 0197). Online, PDF. 2023. Dostupné z:https://www.citace.com/Vyklad-CSN-ISO-690-2022.pdf. [cit. 2023-08-20]. (CS)
KAHN, Norma B. Jak efektivně studovat a pracovat s informacemi. Praha: Portál, 2001. ISBN 80-7178-443-5. (CS)
KRČÁL, Martin a TEPLÍKOVÁ, Zuzana. Naučte (se) správně citovat. Blansko: Citace.com, 2014. ISBN 978-80-260-6074-1. (CS)
THEOBALD, Theo. Zlepšete své prezentační dovednosti: jak srozumitelně, inspirativně a sebevědomě prezentovat.  Brno: Lingea, 2020. ISBN 978-80-7508-611-2. (CS)
ÚŘAD PRO TECHNICKOU NORMALIZACI, METROLOGII A ZKUŠEBNICTVÍ [ÚNMZ]. ČSN ISO690:2022, Informace a dokumentace – Pravidla pro bibliografické odkazy a citace informačníchzdrojů. Online. Dostupné z: ČAS, https://csnonline.agentura-cas.cz/vystaven.aspx?k=515901. [omezení přístupu]. [cit. 2023-08-30]. (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Elearning

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-MET-P Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme N-MAI-A Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme N-MAI-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme N-PMO-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme N-PRI-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme N-SLE-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme N-STG-P Master's

    specialization STM , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization MTS , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
    specialization STG , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme N-VSY-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme M2V-P Master's

    branch M-VSY , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Computer-assisted exercise

13 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

E-learning

Elearning