Course detail
Academic Work Proseminar
FA-SAK-TEAcad. year: 2025/2026
Academic Work Proseminar will provide students with an introduction to the principles of professional activity in the field of research and the basics of professional writing and presentation of the results of scientific work with regard to its ethical dimension. Emphasis is placed on expert information sources with emphasis on adherence to copyright requirements. Practical surveys and analyses will also be part of the seminar. The seminar is intended to create a theoretical basis for the practical design phase and practice.
Students will be led to the profiling of their own research and their own areas of interest, to the preparation and processing of analytical and synthetic parts of scientific work, to critical thinking and written and verbal presentation of scientific results and their discussion.
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Basic literature
LUCAS, R. Research methods for architecture. Laurence King Publishing, 2016. (EN)
WALLWORK, Adrian. English for Writing Research Papers. Springer Science + Business Media, 2011. ISBN 1441979212. (EN)
Recommended reading
LEA, Diana; BULL, Victoria; WEBB, Suzanne; DUNCAN, Robert. Oxford learner's dictionary of academic English. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-433350-4. (EN)
MCCARTHY, Michael; O'DELL, Felicity. Academic vocabulary in use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-521-68939-7. (EN)
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- Programme NE_A+U Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory