Course detail
Writing Final Theses
FSI-0PZ Acad. year: 2024/2025 Summer 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
Department
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 N-OBN-P: Common Offer, Master's, elective
Programme B-OBN-P: Common Offer, Bachelor's, elective
Type of course unit
Language exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
- Course information and the writing process.
- Academic language and rhetorical functions.
- Literature research (bachelor thesis).
- Research work (diploma thesis).
- Discussion of students' writing.