Course detail
Diploma Project Seminar
FP-KpdsPDAcad. year: 2022/2023
The course is intended for students to deepen their knowledge and acquire skills in the area of professional writing as needed for completing bachelors’ theses. Great attention is paid to gathering information and investigating professional literature, conducting and writing up a research, and to citing quotations according to the valid standards. It will teach them how to plan and carry out the whole process of bachelor’s thesis writing, and will make them familiar with the basic guidelines for completing the bachelor’s thesis as far as level of formality and content requirements are concerned. The course will provide students with current methodology and theory in the area and will teach them how to deliver an effective presentation of their work with confidence.
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The main objective of the course is to apply acquired basic knowledge and up-to-date theoretical trends when working out the diploma (bachelor) thesis.
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Students are required to discuss partial outputs with their diploma (bachelor) theses leaders.
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ISO norma 690 (CS)
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2) Basic terminology and key aspects in professional work
3) Basic intellectual operations
4) Basics of social research
5) Methodology of creative work
6) Formal aspects of professional writing
7) Gathering sources and processing information
8) Quotation rules
9) Formal requirements on the bachelor’s thesis and common mistakes
10) Model structure of a bachelor’s thesis, outlining the goals, content, determining of methods and procedure
11) Presentation techniques
12) Suggestions for effective defence of own results and opinions
13) Presentation and defence of results achieved