Course detail

Writing Final Theses

FSI-0PZ Acad. year: 2023/2024 Winter semester

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

Supervisor

Mgr. Martina Vránová, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Foreign Languages

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.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme B-OBN-P: Common Offer, Bachelor's, elective

Programme N-OBN-P: Common Offer, Master's, elective

Type of course unit

 

Language exercise

13 hours, 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.