d050 Academic writing

Fakulta sportovních studií
podzim 2019
Rozsah
18 hod. 8 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Alexander Floyd (přednášející)
doc. PaedDr. Emanuel Hurych, Ph.D. (přednášející)
PhDr. Mgr. Libor Štěpánek, Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
prof. Mgr. Martin Zvonař, Ph.D.
Katedra kineziologie – Fakulta sportovních studií
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra kineziologie – Fakulta sportovních studií
Rozvrh seminárních/paralelních skupin
d050/01: Čt 31. 10. 16:50–19:20 E34/225 - seminární místnost, Čt 14. 11. 14:10–16:40 E34/225 - seminární místnost, Čt 21. 11. 14:10–16:40 E34/225 - seminární místnost, Čt 28. 11. 17:20–19:50 E34/225 - seminární místnost, Čt 5. 12. 8:00–10:30 E34/225 - seminární místnost, Čt 12. 12. 14:10–16:40 E34/225 - seminární místnost, E. Hurych
Předpoklady
B2+ CEFR level, some experience with academic writing
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This course aims to teach the fundamentals of scientific writing. Instruction will focus primarily on the process of writing and publishing scientific manuscripts.
The course will be presented in two segments:
Part (1) teaches students how to write effectively, concisely, and clearly.
Part (2) will take them through the preparation of an actual scientific manuscript. The focus will be on how to write and increase the chance of publishing scientThere is an increasing need among doctoral candidates to publish their work in various types of academic publications and engage with a wider range of academic, professional and public audiences. The goal of this course is to familiarize doctoral candidates with different approaches to scientific writing, take their academic writing skills in English to a higher level and offer them a range of tools to adapt their focus of language to address their target readers at specific, multi-disciplinary and general levels. The course addresses firstly the context of scientific writing to situate the styles of writing that doctoral candidates are working with. It will discuss aspects of clear and concise writing style, and lexical and discourse relationship patterns in academic text, along with functional perspectives for positioning and structuring information and argument in the wider scope of thesis and journal article writing.
Upon successful completion of the course, the course participant will be able to:
1. understand and use both generic and subject specific academic vocabulary
2. read and evaluate texts in appropriate ways to make use of them in writing
3. understand different text styles / structures (thesis and journal article)
4. know how to write a successfully titles, abstracts, paragraphs, and introduction, method, results, discussion, conclusion and recommendations sections of a journal article
5. evaluate strengths/weaknesses of written work ific articles.
Osnova
  • The course will be organised around group and individual writing tasks, problem-solving and discussion activities in three intensive block seminars. It will also include peer review and consultation on writing with text analysts and publication professionals. Participants of distance programme will have access to an online substitute of the in-class course.
Literatura
    doporučená literatura
  • HEWINGS, Martin a Craig THAINE. Cambridge academic English : an integrated skills course for EAP. Edited by Michael McCarthy. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, 176 stran. ISBN 9780521165242. info
  • FIRTH, Matt, Chris SOWTON, Martin HEWINGS, Craig THAINE a Michael MCCARTHY. Cambridge academic english : an integrated skills course for EAP : advanced. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2012, 159 stran. ISBN 9780521165242. info
  • ŠTĚPÁNEK, Libor, Janice DE HAAFF, Alena HRADILOVÁ a David SCHÜLLER. Academic English – Akademická angličtina: Průvodce anglickým jazykem pro studenty, akademiky a vědce. Praha: Grada, 2011, 224 s. ISBN 978-80-247-3577-1. info
  • HRADILOVÁ, Alena. Student’s guide to academic English. In CercleS Seminar: Ten years of the CEFR and the ELP. 2011. URL info
  • PORTER, David. Check your vocabulary for academic English : all you need to pass your exams! Oxford: Macmillan, 2008, 78 s. ISBN 9780230033641. info
  • DONTCHEVA-NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Olga. On expressing stance in academic English: Self-sourced reporting clauses (Abstract). In Book of Aabstracts, PASE 17th Annual Conference. 2008. info
Výukové metody
Seminar, individual consultation as appropriate
Metody hodnocení
A model text of an article / a section of an article that is suitable to be submitted to an ISI/Scopus journal. Attendance at 75 percent or more of the seminar blocks is also mandatory, along with participation during class and completion of homework activities.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
It is recommended to attend the Language Aptitude II course before enrolling in this course. Students are expected to work independently in English. Tento předmět byl inovován v rámci projektu Fondu rozvoje MU MUNI/FR/1612/2015.
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Studijní materiály
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2016, podzim 2017, podzim 2018.
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