PrF:MP222K Academical Writing - Course Information
MP222K Academical Writing
Faculty of LawAutumn 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. PhDr. Tatiana Machalová, CSc. (lecturer)
JUDr. Lukáš Hlouch, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Michal Malaník, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Bc. Terezie Smejkalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Linda Tvrdíková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. PhDr. Jakub Valc, Ph.D., LL.M. (lecturer)
Mgr. Martin Bukovič (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Tatiana Machalová, CSc.
Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Tereza Buchalová
Supplier department: Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- MP222K/01: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. Mon 10:00–11:40 257, M. Bukovič, T. Machalová
MP222K/02: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. Mon 12:00–13:40 257, L. Hlouch, T. Machalová
MP222K/03: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. Mon 14:00–15:40 259, L. Hlouch, T. Machalová
MP222K/04: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. Tue 12:00–13:40 042, M. Štěpáníková
MP222K/05: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. Tue 12:00–13:40 131, M. Bukovič, T. Machalová
MP222K/06: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. Tue 14:00–15:40 315, M. Malaník, L. Tvrdíková
MP222K/07: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. Tue 16:00–17:40 315, M. Malaník, L. Tvrdíková
MP222K/08: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. Wed 8:00–9:40 160, J. Valc
MP222K/09: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. Wed 10:00–11:40 215, J. Valc
MP222K/10: No timetable has been entered into IS. T. Machalová - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ! MP315K Academical Writing
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 203 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 185/203, only registered: 14/203 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Course objectives
- The aim of course is to help develop students their academic writting competence;
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course students should be able to:
a) prepare and write an academic text or paper;
b) put into practice the basic methods of academic writing;
c) analyze the legal cases;
d) respect the ethical rules of academic writing; - Syllabus
- The course covers topics such as:
- A) Preparation for writing projects;
- - choose issue and problems,
- - formulate the important questions and hypothesis,
- - adopt the paragraphs and structure for analysis,
- - ethical rules of legal writing,
- - footnotes and quotations;
- B) Style and methods of legal writing:
- - style of legal writing;
- - structure and evaluation of legal arguments, models of legal argumentation and justification,
- - How to write a legal argument?
- the important legal methods,
- C)Legal research:
- - researching legal concept, case law, judicial opinions, statute, regulations and other legal information;
- Literature
- required literature
- MACHALOVÁ, Tatiana, Miloš VEČEŘA, Markéta ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ, Terezie SMEJKALOVÁ, John Altair GEALFOW, Lukáš HLOUCH, Jana NOVÁKOVÁ and Jakub VALC. Akademické psaní pro právníky (Academic Writing for Lawyers). Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2018, 219 pp. ISBN 978-80-7380-738-2. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures and class discussion
- Assessment methods
- - solving 4 elearning works,
- preparation of 1 draft and 2 evaluations;
- preparation of final project; - Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2022, recent)
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