PřF:ZD150 Scientific work - Course Information
ZD150 Fundamentals of scientific work and preparation of scientific publications in Physical Geography
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2017
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Mgr. Daniel Nývlt, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Rudolf Brázdil, DrSc.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Daniel Nývlt, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science - Prerequisites
- PROGRAM(D-GR4)
Designed for PhD. students, of for Master students interested in publishing their own results. - 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
- Physical Geography (Eng.) (programme PřF, D-GR4) (2)
- Physical Geography (programme PřF, D-GR4) (2)
- Course objectives
- The course blocks will focus on the issues below and will be accompanied by practical examples. The course will end with a credit.
- bibliographic databases, scientometry and RIV - WoS, Scopus, Google Scholar, GeoRef, ScienceDirect, GeoscienceWorld and others; CrossLink, doi, open access - the future of publishing?, Scientometric principles, RIV and usable outputs; online collection of own citations - Researcher ID, Scopus ID, ORCID, ResearchGate, Academia.edu and more,
- Effective text writing in MS Word - tips and tricks,
- typographic basics - font sets, size, proportionality and font types, Czech encoding, special characters, hyphens and dashs, hyphenation, aesthetic and ergonomic text formatting,
- creation of scientific illustrations and tables - specifics and differences between raster and vector graphics, examples of basic types,
- philosophy and structure of scientific publication - why publish, specific article structure in physical geography, role of individual parts of manuscript, special article types,
- why, how and what to cite?, literature review, standard journal abbreviations, citations sorting rules, bibliographic databases - EndNote, Reference Manager, Mendeley and others; automatical creation of reference list in the required format,
- Publication Ethics, Intellectual Property and Plagiarism,
- English scientific style - main rules, tips and tricks, logical structure, argumentation, practical writing of physical-geographic text, most common mistakes and pitfalls in English,
- basic types of publishing process - editorial work, editor role, reviewer, review process, writing cover letter, the most common reasons for rejecting the article and what next?, preparing a revised manuscript, proofreading,
- Publication possibilities in physical geography in the Czechia and abroad. - Learning outcomes
- Student will be able to:
- prepare better scientific text, pictures and tables,
- orientate in physical geographical journals and their suitability for publication of selected topic,
- work actively with citation databases. - Syllabus
- The course blocks will focus on the issues below and will be accompanied by practical examples. The course will end with a credit.
- - bibliographic databases, scientometry and RIV - WoS, Scopus, Google Scholar, GeoRef, ScienceDirect, GeoscienceWorld and others; CrossLink, doi, open access - the future of publishing?, Scientometric principles, RIV and usable outputs; online collection of own citations - Researcher ID, Scopus ID, ORCID, ResearchGate, Academia.edu and more,
- - Effective text writing in MS Word - tips and tricks,
- - typographic basics - font sets, size, proportionality and font types, Czech encoding, special characters, hyphens and dashs, hyphenation, aesthetic and ergonomic text formatting,
- - creation of scientific illustrations and tables - specifics and differences between raster and vector graphics, examples of basic types,
- - philosophy and structure of scientific publication - why publish, specific article structure in physical geography, role of individual parts of manuscript, special article types,
- - why, how and what to cite?, literature review, standard journal abbreviations, citations sorting rules, bibliographic databases - EndNote, Reference Manager, Mendeley and others; automatical creation of reference list in the required format,
- - Publication Ethics, Intellectual Property and Plagiarism,
- - English scientific style - main rules, tips and tricks, logical structure, argumentation, practical writing of physical-geographic text, most common mistakes and pitfalls in English,
- - basic types of publishing process - editorial work, editor role, reviewer, review process, writing cover letter, the most common reasons for rejecting the article and what next?, preparing a revised manuscript, proofreading,
- - Publication possibilities in physical geography in the Czechia and abroad.
- Literature
- Presentation is given to students, as well as electronic links for further reading.
- Teaching methods
- Presentations and practical demonstrations using internet.
- Assessment methods
- Active participation in the course.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: pro studenty doktorského studijního programu
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2017, recent)
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