FSS:HEN902b Scientific Article II - Course Information
HEN902b Scientific Article II
Faculty of Social StudiesSpring 2019
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Karel Stibral, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Mgr. Karel Stibral, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Veronika Išová
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies - Prerequisites
- Knowledge of English or other world language.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Environmental Humanities (programme FSS, D-SO4) (2)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to develop the publishing skills of doctoral program students in the area of their research (or the field of their dissertation) as an indispensable preparation for the future academic career. Each student will publish a research paper in an internationally recognized scientific journal meeting specified criteria defined below (see Assessment methods and criteria). The approaches, norms and methods of scientific orientation chosen by the student should be respected in the context of text creation.
- Learning outcomes
- Student should be able to publish a scientific paper with a clear structure, clearly defined hypotheses and methodology and conclusions. According to the definition of a scientific paper it can be a paper based on their own research or it can be a review of scientific literature complemented by own contribution. The final output is a published scientific article or a paper whose acceptance for print has been confirmed.
- Syllabus
- The course does not have a syllabus because it is individualized and guided by the main goal - the publication of a scientific article.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- HELÁN, Robert. Teaching Academic Writing to Doctoral Students in the Context of English as a Foreign Language: Implementing Best Practices from Writing Research. In 15th biennial Writing Development in Higher Education (WDHE) Conference, Centre for Academic Writing, Coventry University, United Kingdom. 2014. URL info
- HAMP-LYONS, Liz and Ben HEASLEY. Study writing : a course in writing skills for academic purposes. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 213 s. ISBN 9780521534963. info
- GIARRUSSO, Roseann. A guide to writing sociology papers. Edited by Judith Richlin-Klonsky - Ellen Strenski. 3rd ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, x, 180. ISBN 0312084293. info
- not specified
- SCHNUR, Harald. Schreiben. Eine lebensnahe Anleitung für die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 2010. 136 s. ISBN 9783531171012.
- COOPER, Sheila a Patton Rosemary. Writing Logically, Thinking Critically. San Francisco: Pearson/Longman, 2013.
- HAYOT, Eric. The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities. New. York: Columbia University Press, 2014. 256 s. ISBN 9780231168014.
- MOGULL, Scott A. Scientific And Medical Communication: A Guide For Effective Practice. New York: Routledge, 2017. 372 s. ISBN 9781138842557.
- Teaching methods
- Individual consultations with the teacher or guarantor of the course, and especially with the supervisor of the doctoral student.
- Assessment methods
- Publication of a scientific article in a journal in the Scopus or WoS database. Credits are awarded for the published article or against an official acknowledgment of acceptance for publication. The student must be the first author in case of co-authorship. In case the student co-authors the article as the second author, the article is evaluated as 50% fulfilment of the requirement (two papers/chapters must be provided in case of being a second author; or three papers/chapters in case of being the third author).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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