PrF:BZ106K Basics of Academical Writing - Course Information
BZ106K Basics of Academical Writing
Faculty of LawAutumn 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Martin Bukovič (assistant)
Mgr. Štěpán Janků (assistant)
Mgr. Jan Strya (assistant)
Mgr. Ing. John Altair Gealfow, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D.
Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Tereza Buchalová
Supplier department: Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- BZ106K/01: Fri 11. 10. 14:00–15:40 025, Fri 1. 11. 12:00–13:40 038, J. Gealfow, M. Štěpáníková
BZ106K/02: Fri 11. 10. 16:00–17:40 025, Fri 1. 11. 14:00–15:40 038, J. Gealfow, M. Štěpáníková
BZ106K/03: Fri 11. 10. 12:00–13:40 025, Fri 1. 11. 16:00–17:40 133, J. Gealfow, M. Štěpáníková - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- !OBOR(PR) && !OBOR(PR01) && !PROGRAM(N-VS)
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- International Commercial Law Studies (programme PrF, B-PSP) (2)
- Commercial Law Studies (programme PrF, B-PSP) (2)
- Legal Questions of Land Register (programme PrF, B-PSP) (2)
- Law and Finance (programme PrF, B-PSP) (2)
- Law and International Trade (programme PrF, B-PSP) (2)
- Law and Business (programme PrF, B-PSP) (2)
- Social Security Law (programme PrF, B-PSP) (2)
- Theory and Practice of Criminal Procedure (programme PrF, B-PSP) (2)
- Theory and Practice of Criminal and Administrative Procedure (programme PrF, B-VS) (2)
- Public Administration (programme PrF, B-PSP) (2)
- Public Administration (programme PrF, B-VS) (2)
- Public Administration (programme PrF, B-VS, specialization Financial Administration) (2)
- Public Administration (programme PrF, B-VS, specialization Land Registry Administration) (2)
- Public Administration (programme PrF, B-VS, specialization Social Security Administration) (2)
- Public Administration (programme PrF, B-VS, specialization General Public Administration) (2)
- Senior Officer of Justice (programme PrF, B-PSP) (2)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the course is to help students develop writing competence to create an academic text.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course students should be able to:
a) prepare and write an expert 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:
- 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;
- - style of legal writing;
- - structure and evaluation of legal arguments, models of legal argumentation and justification,
- - How to write a legal argument?
- - 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
- 4 papers and a final essay (if necessary)
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 4 hod. přednášek za semestr a navíc dobrovolná konzultace v rozsahu 2 hod. přes MS Teams / 4 hrs of lectures plus 2 hrs of voluntary consultation via MS Teams per semester.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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