VB000 Elements of Style

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Hana Žižková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Zuzana Nevěřilová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Pavel Šmerk, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
RNDr. Zuzana Nevěřilová, Ph.D.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: RNDr. Zuzana Nevěřilová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Prerequisites
NOW( SBAPR Bachelor Thesis ) || ( PrF:BI1000Z Bachelor Thesis )
Students are supposed to have already their bachelor's thesis topics selected.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 110 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/110, only registered: 101/110, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 101/110
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of this course, students should be able:
to acquire skills for writing technical texts (introduction to Bachelor thesis and the state-of-the-art chapter);
to master the principles of positive communication, knowledge of communication barriers and the ways of their overcoming;
to apply rules for writing academic texts in theory and practice;
to recognize and use features of academic writing: structure, composition, terminology, definitions, formal language, composition, consistency;
to recognize and correct spelling and grammatical errors in the technical texts;
to prepare an oral presentation about the given topic.
Learning outcomes
The students will:
determine the academic style main characteristics (formal, precise, structured, using hedging);
plan the written part of their bachelor thesis;
select appropriate academic resources for their domain;
summarise current state-of-the-art for their domain;
formulate the aim, methods, and results of their bachelor thesis;
cite appropriately academic resources;
write abstract
Syllabus
  • Communication maxims, basic principles of the positive communication.
  • Communication barriers and the ways of their overcomning.
  • Communication skills, practical writing
  • Language and communication, various registers and styles.
  • Language correctness, spelling, orthography, language support software.
  • Colloquial and Common Czech, dialects, slangs.
  • Writing technical and research documents, their composition, vertical and horizontal structuring, lexical features, terms, terminology.
  • Oral and written presentations: talks, lectures, articles, posters etc.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Internetová jazyková příručka. [online] Ústav pro jazyk český Akademie věd ČR. Dostupné z https://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
  • Akademická příručka českého jazyka. Edited by Markéta Pravdová - Ivana Svobodová. 2., rozšířené vydání. Praha: Academia, 2019, 600 stran. ISBN 9788020029478. info
  • KRATOCHVÍL, Jiří, Petr SEJK, Věra ELIÁŠOVÁ and Marek STEHLÍK. Metodika tvorby bibliografických citací. 2. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011. Elportál. ISSN 1802-128X. PURL url info
  • ŠANDEROVÁ, Jadwiga. Jak číst a psát odborný text ve společenských vědách. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2009, 209 pp. Studijní texty, 34. svazek. ISBN 978-80-86429-40-3. info
  • JANOVEC, Ladislav, Lucie BUŠOVÁ, Adéla ŘÍHOVÁ and Markéta ŠAMALOVÁ. Na co se často ptáte. Jak používat čárku a další interpunkční znaménka. Praha: Klett nakladatelství, 2006, 135 pp. ISBN 80-86906-76-0. info
  • ŠVANDOVÁ, Blažena and Milan JELÍNEK. Argumentace a umění komunikovat (Argumentation and the art of communication). první. Brno: PedF MU Brno, 1999, 330 pp. Monografie 74. ISBN 1-210-2186-1. info
Teaching methods
Two-hour lectures are held in the first half of the semester. Exercises are two hours long, once every 2 weeks. The learner receives individual feedback on their work.
Assessment methods
Two written texts on an assigned topic
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Spring 2003, Autumn 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Spring 2006, Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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