Course detail
Introduction to Technical Writing
FSI-0TW Acad. year: 2022/2023 Winter semester
Introduction to Technical Writing 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
English
Number of ECTS credits
3
Supervisor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Students will acquire knowledge on structuring academic texts, which they will use in writing their final theses.
Prerequisites
GEN3 examination.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Seminars and e-learning module.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
The credit comprises regular attendance and e-learning exercises. The examination will be a test.
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.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-OBN-P: Common Offer, Master's, elective
Programme B-OBN-P: Common Offer, Bachelor's, elective
Type of course unit
Language exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
1. Course information and the writing process.
2. Academic language and rhetorical functions.
3. Literature research (bachelor thesis).
4. Research work (diploma thesis).