Course detail

Writing Final Theses

FSI-0PZAcad. year: 2023/2024

The Final Thesis Writing course provides students with language suitable for writing in technical academic contexts. This course wil provide students with tips and instructions on writing long academic texts in Czech and in English. The focus is neither strictly scientific (as in final thesis seminars) nor bibliographic (literature research and referencing is covered by the FME library course). The central emphasis is placed on the text (structuring information in academic writing both in Czech and in English). The course includes an e-learning module.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Martina Vránová, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Foreign Languages (ÚJ)

Entry knowledge

GEN3 examination recommended.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The credit comprises regular attendance and e-learning exercises. The examination will be a test.


Attendance is compulsory and is checked on a regular basis. In well-founded cases, absences can be made up for after consulting the situation with the teacher.

Aims

Student will acquire and master

1. thinking processes resulting in expressing the topic, goals and thesis of their academic texts,

2. structuring an academic text and its parts (from the paragraph to the final thesis as a whole),

3. rhetorical functions available for expressing the contents of research into an appropriate communicative form,

4. skills to produce a coherent academic text,

5. skills to edit and format a text.


Students will acquire knowledge on structuring academic texts, which they will use in writing their final theses.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Gardner, Peter S. 2005. “The Essentials of Writing.” In New Directions: Reading, Writing and CriticalThinking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 102–32.
McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph. 2021. “Seven Steps to Writing a Literature Review.” Guides.Last modified November 15, 2021. https://guides.lib.uoguelph.ca/c.php?g=130964&p=5000948.
Černý, Michal. 2022. „Než začnete psát.“ In KISK: Kurz práce s informacemi . Masarykova univerzita.Accessed on July 27, 2022. https://kisk.phil.muni.cz/kpi/trash hanka/tvorba informaci jako proces/nezzacnete psat.
Čmejrková, Světla, František Daneš, and Jindra Světlá. 1999. Jak napsat odborný text. Prague: Leda.
McCombes, Shona. 2019. “How to Write a Literature Review.” Scribbr. Last modified August 27, 2021.https://www.scribbr.com/dissertation/literature-review/.
Rajdová, Ilja. 2019. Úvod do odborného stylu pro SPU II. Course content. Brno: Masaryk University.
Vránová, Martina. 2017. Research Paper in English. Course content. Brno: Brno University of Technology.
Wallwork, Adrian. English for Academic Research: Writing Exercises. New York: Springer, 2013.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-OBN-P Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
  • Programme N-OBN-P Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Language exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Martina Vránová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  1. Course information and the writing process.
  2. Academic language and rhetorical functions.
  3. Literature research (bachelor thesis).
  4. Research work (diploma thesis).
  5. Discussion of students' writing.

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course