Course detail
Academic Sources and Citations
FSI-0ZCAcad. year: 2024/2025
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.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
This course is lead in e-learning form. The faculty tutors check if the students has finished all of course's parts and the quality of processed or submitted tasks.
Aims
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
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
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]. (CS)
KAHN, Norma B. Jak efektivně studovat a pracovat s informacemi. Praha: Portál, 2001. ISBN 80-7178-443-5. (CS)
KRČÁL, Martin a TEPLÍKOVÁ, Zuzana. Naučte (se) správně citovat. Blansko: Citace.com, 2014. ISBN 978-80-260-6074-1. (CS)
KAPOUNOVÁ, Jana a KAPOUN, Pavel. Bakalářská a diplomová práce: od zadání po obhajobu. Praha: Grada, 2017. ISBN 978-80-271-0079-8. (CS)
THEOBALD, Theo. Zlepšete své prezentační dovednosti: jak srozumitelně, inspirativně a sebevědomě prezentovat. Brno: Lingea, 2020. ISBN 978-80-7508-611-2. (CS)
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]. (CS)
Recommended reading
Elearning
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B-MET-P Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme N-MAI-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme N-PMO-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme N-PRI-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme N-SLE-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme N-STG-P Master's
specialization STM , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
specialization MTS , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
specialization STG , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme N-VSY-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme B-ENE-P Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme B-FIN-P Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme B-PDS-P Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme B-PRP-P Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme B-STR-P Bachelor's
specialization AIŘ , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
specialization KSB , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
specialization SSZ , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
specialization STG , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme B-ZSI-P Bachelor's
specialization STI , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
specialization MTI , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme N-ETI-P Master's
specialization TEP , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
specialization ENI , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
specialization FLI , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme N-IMB-P Master's
specialization IME , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
specialization BIO , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme N-KSB-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme N-KSI-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme N-LKT-P Master's
specialization STL , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
specialization TLT , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme N-MET-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme N-MTI-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme N-PDS-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme N-VSR-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme B-STG Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, elective
Type of course unit
Computer-assisted exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
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
Elearning