LMKB_a102 Academic Writing

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Bromová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
TYP_STUDIA(ND)
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 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course aims to develop and consolidate the students’ skills in creating text, in part as a preparation for the writing of extensive academic texts, such as the final thesis. Students will acquire methods of creative work with text at all stages of composition of a scholarly project (searching for and formulation of the thesis topic, the structuring of the topic, interpretation and assessment of text, proofreading and evaluation techniques). Further on, the students will learn to use effective methods of research and processing of data, the principles of preparing a research project, and the means of presentation of results. Students will be aided in maintaining suitable heuristic approaches and work strategies, which will lead them to a successful preparation and writing of a thesis in Czech (or Slovak) language.
The seminar is composed as a catalogue of methods and techniques for individual stages of writing an academic text, being concerned with the creative as well as the technical and organizational aspects of writing. The activities within the course simulate the principal stages of the writing process, starting with planning an academic project, continuing with searching for and refining the topic of the thesis, and structuring the work, and ending with the revision, optimizing, and presentation stages of the project.
Learning outcomes
Having finished the course, students will be able to:
- use the correct methods and techniques in the individual stages of writing an academic text;
- plan an adequate research project (Master’s diploma thesis);
- create working definitions of the key words in their area of research;
- recognize the characteristics of various genre of academic writing, and use them in their own text;
- write a communicative academic text;
- create the thesis, the structure and the abstract of an academic text;
- use citations, paraphrase; use scholarly texts in their research;
- analyse, describe, interpret, and evaluate their research material, and formulate adequate conclusions in the academic style of their area of expertise.
Syllabus
  • Selection of exercises and techniques:
  • looking for a theme,
  • forming an assignment,
  • forming a hypotheses,
  • creating an outline,
  • planning the work,
  • the chronological axis,
  • rewording, shortening, cutting, methods of critical evaluation,
  • collective revision
  • work with the primary literature,
  • collecting and working with secondary literature,
  • principles of quoting,
  • fine art techniques in academic work.
Literature
    required literature
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk and Jitka CHOLASTOVÁ. Tvorba odborného textu a techniky tvůrčího psaní na vysoké škole. (The Creation of the Academic Text and the Techniques of Creative Writing at University.). In Sborník prací Filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2007, p. 65-75. ISBN 978-80-210-4396-1. info
  • ČMEJRKOVÁ, Světla, František DANEŠ and Jindra SVĚTLÁ. Jak napsat odborný text. Vydání první. Praha: Leda, 1999, 255 stran. ISBN 8085927691. info
    recommended literature
  • Náhradní obsah: Eliášová, Viera a kol. Na stope slovám. Príručka tvorivého písania pe učiteľov slovenského jazyka a literatúry. Bratislava: ŠPÚ; British Council Slovakia, 2007. ISBN 978-80-89225-35-4.
  • FRANK, Andrea, Stefanie HAACKE and Swantje LAHM. Schlüsselkompetenzen : Schreiben in Studium und Beruf. 2., aktualisierte und erweit. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2013, xi, 218. ISBN 9783476024770. info
  • Portfolio macht Schule : Unterrichts- und Schulentwicklung mit Portfolio. Edited by Gerd Bräuer - Martin Keller - Felix Winter. 1. Aufl. [Stuttgart]: Klett, 2012, 200 s. ISBN 9783780010971. info
  • HORÁČEK, Radek, Zbyněk FIŠER and Vladimír HAVLÍK. Slovem, akcí, obrazem - příspěvek k interdisciplinaritě tvůrčího procesu (Among words, action, picture - a contribution to the interdisciplinarity of the creative process). 1. dotisk 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 208 pp. SPISY PEDAGOGICKÉ FAKULTY MU sv. 146. ISBN 978-80-210-5389-2. info
  • Schreibarrangements für Schule, Hochschule, Beruf. Edited by Gerd Bräuer - Kirsten Schindler. Freiburg im Breisgau: Fillibach, 2011, 305 s. ISBN 9783931240677. info
  • Resources for teaching creative writing. Edited by Johnnie Young. New York: Continuum, 2009, xi, 139 p. ISBN 9780826443540. info
  • MEŠKO, Dušan, Dušan KATUŠČÁK and Ján FINDRA. Akademická příručka. České, upr. vyd. Martin: Osveta, 2006, 481 s. ISBN 8080632197. info
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní pro dospělé v teorii a praxi. (Creative writing). 1st ed. Brno: Vzdělávací a poradenské centrum Masarykovy univerzity, 2005, 32 pp. Univerzita třetího věku. info
  • ČECHOVÁ, Marie, Jan CHLOUPEK, Marie KRČMOVÁ and Eva MINÁŘOVÁ. Současná česká stylistika. Vydání první. Praha: ISV nakladatelství, 2003, 342 stran. ISBN 8086642003. info
  • ECO, Umberto and Ivan SEIDL. Jak napsat diplomovou práci. Olomouc: Votobia, 1997, 271 s. ISBN 80-7198-173-7. info
Teaching methods
seminar, group work
Assessment methods
Requirements for obtaining a credit: portfolio including work created in seminars, active participation in lessons. Portfolio has to be handed in before the end of semester, in electronic form.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: Předmět bude otevřen a vyučován při minimálním počtu 6 zapsaných studujících.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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