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Lecturer(s)
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Němec Miroslav, doc. Dr. phil.
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Course content
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1. The importance of academic writing, text analysis according to the type (Textsortenanalyse) 2. Quality criteria 3. Search and bibliography in Germanistics - systematic search for literature 4. Using literature sources 5. Internet search and its risks, Internet data bank and websites relevant to Germanistics 6. Ways how to quote (Chicago, Harvard etc.), quotation form and importance 7. The problem of compilation and plagiarism 8. Academic writing technique 9. Writing: focus on topic 10. Content and formal components of academic writing 11. Text comprehensibility 12. Summary and main ideas of academic writing (excerptum) 13. Scientific argumentation (thesis, antithesis, comment on secondary literature) 14. Rules for quoting sources and application in scientific text
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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This course focuses on text structure analysis with respect to formal aspects and content components of academic writing. Students will explore scientific literature in terms of scientific heuristics, use information sources and sort out collected data. They will improve knowledge how to write excerpts, essays and logical composition (argumentation, thesis, antithesis, etc.). The course emphasizes scientific text comprehension and allows them to write their own academic writing. Students will become acquainted with proper ways of quoting the sources and impacts of misquoting.
Student " is able to express and defend own opinion in writing " can adequately use standard, formal and informal language " can use information sources and sort out the collected data " is able to write an extract, own arguments and academic essay, can quote the sources.
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Prerequisites
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There are no prerequisites for this course.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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unspecified
Students are expected to write an academic essay on a given topic. In this written task should be demonstrated that they have understood scientific text structure, science terms, reasoning skills and a correct way to quote.
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Recommended literature
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Buchner, P. Campus Deutsch - Schreiben. München : Hueber, 2015. ISBN 978-3-19-101003-4.
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Graefen, G. / Moll, M. Wissenschaftssprache Deutsch: lesen - verstehen - schreiben. Peter Lang Verlag Frankfurt am Main, 2011. ISBN 978-3-631-60948-4.
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Jahr, S. Uni-Deutsch 1 Wissenschaftsdeutsch. Berlin: Booksbaum Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3940-972-071.
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Schäfer, S. / Heinrich, D. Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten an deutschen Universitäten. IUDICIUM Verlag München, 2010. ISBN 978-3-89129-981-4.
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Sittig, C. Arbeitstechniken Germanistik. Stuttgart : Klett, 2014. ISBN 978-3-12-939015.
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