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Lecturer(s)
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Škoda Jiří, prof. PhDr. Ph.D., MBA
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Course content
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1. Basic informational sources and their sorting 2. Primary information sources. Book sources, professional, and scientific journals. Lectures and collections, diploma thesis, dissertation thesis, and habilitation thesis. Company owned literature, video materials, computer programs, and information on the internet. 3. Information record - bibliographical record, catalogue, bibliographical citation, ČSN ISO 690, and ČSN ISO 690-2, APA. Different ways to a correct bibliographical citation. Excerption, annotation. 4. Secondary sources of information, report journals, internet databases, work with secondary sources of information 5. Processing professional and scientific texts. Content and formal requirements of scientific texts. 6. The types of diploma theses and the definition of their content - work historically-comparative, cultural, empiric, linguistic, literary, scientific, methodically - didactic 7. - 8. Informational preparation for a diploma thesis 9. Literary search during the preparation of a diploma thesis and its function. Processing the topic of the diploma thesis, formal division of a diploma thesis. 10. Obligatory parts of the empiric diploma thesis - research problem and its formulation, type of the research problem, characteristics of the research field, formulation of the individual goals, research issues, and research hypotheses. Types of empiric research. 11. Analysis of each individual part of the diploma thesis. Rules valid for the preparation of pictures, graphs, tabs, and other graphical components published in professional texts. 12. Diploma thesis review, its structure, focus, and evaluated features 13. Authorship law and authorship ethics, plagiarism 14. Diploma thesis defence and its process
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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This seminar familiarizes its listeners with the generally applicable rules of preparation, realization, and management of a diploma thesis. The subject is focused on both formal parts and content. The following topics are covered during the seminars.
Students orientate themselves with the primary and secondary information sources, are able to use the correct information sources and various tools used for literary search within the databases, while getting ready to write their diploma thesis. The student is able to operate and apply the basic rules for the creation of a diploma thesis, and other professional texts. Students are able to create a concept of a research design for their own diploma thesis, to conduct research, to process data, and to adequately interpret it. Students are also able to adequately discuss the gained results. A student can prepare himself/herself for the defence of a diploma thesis and react accordingly to remarks made by the thesis supervisor and opponent in their reviews.
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Prerequisites
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none
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
According to the teacher's instructions
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Recommended literature
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ČMEJRKOVÁ, S., DANEŠ, F., SVĚTLÁ, D. Jak napsat odborný text. Praha: LEDA, 1999.
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DVOŘÁKOVÁ-JANŮ, V. Jak psát diplomovou práci.. Praha: Credit, 1996.
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FILKA, J. Metodika tvorby diplomové práce.. Brno: Knihař, 2002.
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HOLOUŠOVÁ, D., KROBOTOVÁ, M. Diplomové a závěrečné práce. Olomouc: UPOL, 2002.
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KAPOUNOVÁ, J. Formální úprava diplomové práce. 1.vyd. Ostrava: OU, 1998.. 1998.
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MICHALÍK, P., ROUB, Z., VRBÍK, V. Zpracování diplomové a bakalářské práce na počítači. Plzeň ZU, 2002. ISBN 80-7082-921-4.
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NEKUDA, J., SLANÝ, A. Jak (ne)napsat závěrečnou práci. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1993.
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POKORNÝ, J. Diplomová práce - příležitost k seberealizaci. Brno: Cerm, 1994.
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SEDLÁK, J. Úvod do práce s informacemi. Brno: Masarykova univerzita,, 1996.
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SYNEK, M., SEDLÁČKOVÁ, H., VÁVROVÁ, H. Jak psát diplomové a jiné písemné práce.. Praha: VŠE, 2002.
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Škoda, J. Jak psát kvalifikační práci. Dostupné na: http://jiriskoda.webnode.cz/jak-psat-kvalifikacni-praci/..
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