Course detail
Quotations in a Research Work
FEKT-DPA-CVPAcad. year: 2022/2023
The course acquaints students with the issues of citation (creation of reference, plagiarism, citation analysis, etc.) and the copyright aspects of scientific publishing. In addition, attention is also paid to creative learning techniques, searching for scientific information, evaluating information on the Internet and presenting information. The course is focused on the practical use of scientific resources.
Guarantor
Offered to foreign students
The home faculty only
Learning outcomes of the course unit
Students will know the principles of ethical use of information. They will be able to create references of various kinds of documents and use reference managers to create them. They will know the copyright aspects of publishing and open access issues. They will be able to search in the electronic information sources available at BUT. They can critically evaluate information found on the Internet.
Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Co-requisites
Not applicable.
Recommended optional programme components
Not applicable.
Recommended or required reading
Krčál M., Teplíková Z.: Naučte (se) citovat. Blansko: Citace.com, 2014. ISBN 978-80-260-6074-1. (CS)
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Teaching is in the form of lectures and seminars, including e-learning support in Moodle
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
For completing the course is necessary to attend 5 of 7 lectures and fulfill the assigned tasks in individual chapters from 50%.
Language of instruction
English
Work placements
Not applicable.
Course curriculum
1. Referencing and plagiarism
2.-3. References and reference managers
4.-5. Copyright aspects
6.-7. Open Access and predatory publishers
8. Bibliographic databases and citation analysis
9.-10. Electronic information resources
11. Critical thinking
12.-13. Information presentation
Aims
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the copyright requirements for their work and the correct referencing to the extent that they are able to pass this knowledge to their own students.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme DPA-KAM Doctoral, any year of study, summer semester, 2 credits, elective
- Programme DPA-EKT Doctoral, any year of study, summer semester, 2 credits, elective
- Programme DPA-EIT Doctoral, any year of study, summer semester, 2 credits, elective
- Programme DPAD-EIT Doctoral, any year of study, summer semester, 2 credits, elective
- Programme DPA-MET Doctoral, any year of study, summer semester, 2 credits, elective
- Programme DPA-SEE Doctoral, any year of study, summer semester, 2 credits, elective
- Programme DPA-TLI Doctoral, any year of study, summer semester, 2 credits, elective
- Programme DPA-TEE Doctoral, any year of study, summer semester, 2 credits, elective