UBKD0019 Professional writing

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/3/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
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
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).
Literature
    required literature
  • ECO, U. Jak napsat diplomovou práci. Olomouc: Votobia, 1997. ISBN 80-7198-173-7. info
    recommended literature
  • PETRŮ, E. Úvod do studia literární vědy. Olomouc, 2000. info
  • HAMAN, A. Úvod do studia literatury a interpretace díla. Jinočany, 1999. info
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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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