RLDTP1 Publishing a Book Review

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2020
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 20 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michaela Ondrašinová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. David Zbíral, Ph.D.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Ivona Vrzalová
Supplier department: Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
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
Course objectives
As the outcome of the course, students submit the published text of a critical review (review of a monograph, edited volume or a monothematic issue of a journal) on which they worked under the supervision of their tutor or other experts in the field. The course has to be enrolled in the semestr following after the publication of the review. The choice of the reviewed publication as well as the journal to which the review is submitted must be discussed with a supervisor in advance. The reviewed publication has to be connected to the project of a dissertation research of the student – either thematically or theoretically and methodologically. The review must be published in a journal which is for the given year listed at least in one of the following databases/lists: Web of Science, SCOPUS, ERIH or the list of the Czech peer-reviewed journals. Besides, the reviews published in the student religious studies journal “Sacra” are accepted as well.
Learning outcomes
After passing the course, students are able to:
  • write a critical review which is accepted by the editorial office of a target journal;
  • edit the text of a review which has been accepted for publication and prepare its final version linguistically as well as formally;
  • work efficiently with a constructive criticism of their text;
  • understand the practical issues of publishing reviews in academic journals.
    • Syllabus
    • Submitting the review to an academic journal (before enrolment of the course).
    • Receiving a feedback from the editorial office and acceptation of the review by the journal editors (before enrolment of the course).
    • Working with the feedback and preparation of the final version of the review (before enrolment of the course).
    • Proofreading the text of the review and editing the formal aspects of the text (before enrolment of the course).
    • Publication of the review in an academic journal (before enrolment of the course).
    Literature
      required literature
    • ŠANDEROVÁ, Jadwiga. Jak číst a psát odborný text ve společenských vědách. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2009, 209 pp. Studijní texty, 34. svazek. ISBN 978-80-86429-40-3. info
    • Cesty k vědě : jak správně myslet a psát. Edited by Břetislav Horyna - Josef Krob. 1. vyd. Olomouc: Nakladatelství Olomouc, 2007, 170 s. ISBN 9788071822233. info
      recommended literature
    • MACGILCHRIST, Felicitas. Academic writing. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2014, 190 stran. ISBN 9783825240875. info
    Teaching methods
    Individual work on the text of the review and consultations with the supervisor.
    Assessment methods
    Students submit the already published text of the review to the home vaults in the Information system MU. For the assessment, the nature of the journal in which the review has been published is decisive: the journal has to be indexed in the Web of Science or SCOPUS or listed in ERIH or in the official list of the Czech peer-reviewed unimpacted periodicals (Seznam recenzovaných neimpaktovaných periodik vydávaných v České republice); the publication in the student religious studies journal "Sacra" is also accepted (100 %). Another condition for passing the course is to create a publication record through the Publication application in the IS MU (type “r Review”) and to fill in correctly all information necessary for submitting the record to the RIV database.
    Language of instruction
    Czech
    Further Comments
    Study Materials
    The course is taught each semester.
    The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022.
    • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2020, recent)
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