Academic Sources and Citations (FSI-0ZC)

Academic year 2024/2025
Supervisor: Mgr. Jana Hoderová, Ph.D.  
Supervising institute: FSI  
Teaching language: Czech
Aims of the course unit:

This course is aimed at practical usage of information sources in writing the diploma theses and citation of different types of documents. The course teaches copyright/author’s right as well.

The student should know after graduating:

  • Rate and choose good quality and relevant sources for their thesis
  • Critically evaluate information
  • Create citation of different types of sources
  • Use numerical reference citation method
  • Work with the citation manager
  • Understand ethical and legal standards which accompanied using the sources
  • Express ideas in structured way and present them
  • Write anotation and key words for thesis
Learning outcomes and competences:
 
Prerequisites:
 
Course contents:

The course is focused on FME students who are studying the third or higher degree and it provides information about searching relevant sources for writing the thesis. The course is particularly focused on the citation of used sources, the ethics of information and ratings of sources.

Students are going to learn how to distinguish quality sources of information based on basic criteria. They are going to be able to cite different types of documents and use numerical reference citation method. Students will get acquainted with copyright/author’s right, Creative Commons licence and citation managers. They will learn how to write annotation and key words of their thesis and how to structure the text. The last chapter of the course is devoted to presentation skills.

The course is held in a distance form, through e-learning in Moddle. Students can attend counsulting hours.
Teaching methods and criteria:
 
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes:
 
Controlled participation in lessons:
 
Type of course unit:
    Computer-assisted exercise  13 × 1 hrs. optionally                  
Course curriculum:
    Computer-assisted exercise

The course is structured into six chapters.


Chapter 1: Sources rating


Chapter 2: Citing + copyright (author’s right) + Creative Commons


Chapter 3: Creation of citation


Chapter 4: Citation managers


Chapter 5: Creation of thesis


Chapter 6: Presentation skills
Literature - fundamental:
1. ÚŘAD PRO TECHNICKOU NORMALIZACI, METROLOGII A ZKUŠEBNICTVÍ [ÚNMZ]. ČSN ISO690:2022, Informace a dokumentace – Pravidla pro bibliografické odkazy a citace informačníchzdrojů. Online. Dostupné z: ČAS, https://csnonline.agentura-cas.cz/vystaven.aspx?k=515901. [omezení přístupu]. [cit. 2023-08-30].
2. FARKAŠOVÁ, Blanka; GARAMSZEGI, Tereza; JANSOVÁ, Linda; KONEČNÝ, Lukáš; KRČÁK, Martin etal. Výklad normy ČSN ISO 690:2022 (01 0197). Online, PDF. 2023. Dostupné z:https://www.citace.com/Vyklad-CSN-ISO-690-2022.pdf. [cit. 2023-08-20].
3. KRČÁL, Martin a TEPLÍKOVÁ, Zuzana. Naučte (se) správně citovat. Blansko: Citace.com, 2014. ISBN 978-80-260-6074-1.
5. KAHN, Norma B. Jak efektivně studovat a pracovat s informacemi. Praha: Portál, 2001. ISBN 80-7178-443-5.
6. THEOBALD, Theo. Zlepšete své prezentační dovednosti: jak srozumitelně, inspirativně a sebevědomě prezentovat.  Brno: Lingea, 2020. ISBN 978-80-7508-611-2.
7. BUZAN, Tony. Mind Map Mastery: The Complete Guide to Learning and Using the Most Powerful Thinking Tool in the Universe. London: Watkins Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-1786781413.
8.

KAPOUNOVÁ, Jana a KAPOUN, Pavel. Bakalářská a diplomová práce: od zadání po obhajobu. Praha: Grada, 2017. ISBN 978-80-271-0079-8.
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