FPF:UBKC0030 Professional writing - Course Information
UBKC0030 Professional writing
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2018
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Jakub Chrobák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Jakub Chrobák, Ph.D.
Institute of The Czech Language and Library Science – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Prerequisites
- The course does not reguire any predisposition.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Czech Literature (programme FPF, B7310 Filo)
- Czech language and literature in combination with another discipline (programme FPF, B6107 HuSt)
- Czech language and literature in combination with another discipline (programme FPF, B7310 Filo)
- Course objectives
- The aim is to acquaint students with the basics of writing an academic text. Since heuristic collecting material through the selection and study of literature, an analysis of the material, references and citations to the concrete production of the final text.
- Syllabus
- The course is designed for students of 1st year. Students prove by specific examples how to collect and gather material. There will also be introduced to basic dictionaries to be able to reach the necessary quota of literature. Through the reading of selected problematic (un)scientific texts the students are brought closer to the critical work with specialized literature. Using specific examples of other authors and their own experiments, students will learn citation ethics and rules for referencing, quoting and paraphrasing. All this skills will be used in the final creative student works on a limited and undemanding topic.
Types of workshops:
Collection of material (eg. Work of Jan Balabán).
Professional literature (from the Lexicon of Czech literature after the electronic dictionary Czech literature after 1945).
Topic selection (eg. Faith in the short story book Možná že odcházíme, Emigration epic song of Boží lano, Return home in the novel Černý beran. So called normalization and today in the work Kudy šel anděl, Hope in a book of stories Jsme tady, Theme sonship in the novel Zeptej se táty and a wide range of topics comparative)
Quoting, paraphrasing, referencing.
How to use scientific literature, how to operate, how to define against her.
Analysis of the first note.
Attempting to interpret.
Making a professional text in practice - naming theme.
Making a professional text in practice - their own analysis.
Making a professional text in practice - formulation of conclusions.
- The course is designed for students of 1st year. Students prove by specific examples how to collect and gather material. There will also be introduced to basic dictionaries to be able to reach the necessary quota of literature. Through the reading of selected problematic (un)scientific texts the students are brought closer to the critical work with specialized literature. Using specific examples of other authors and their own experiments, students will learn citation ethics and rules for referencing, quoting and paraphrasing. All this skills will be used in the final creative student works on a limited and undemanding topic.
- Literature
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- Active participation in seminars, essay 2-5 norm page, with citation apparatus, Bibliography and mainly its own interpretation of selected phenomenon.
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2018, recent)
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