Course detail

English for PhD Students

FIT-JA6DAcad. year: 2010/2011

Writing course for postgraduate and intermediate students.Various writing skills are trained and developed during the course: taking notes, summary, reports and articles, description of a process or instrument.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

0

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. PhDr. Milena Krhutová, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Ability to distinguish various writing styles,reconstruct the text on the base of taken notes, write a summary, a report, article and also make a good presentation.

Prerequisites

Knowledge to be able in active conversation.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

  • Active participation in the seminars
  • Self-study and fulfilling the set written tasks
  • Success at the written semester test (min. 50%)

Course curriculum

  1. Basic writing styles
  2. Informal writing style
  3. Formal writing style
  4. General formal writing style
  5. Specialized-style characteristic
  6. Characteristics of general-style article
  7. Characteristics of specialized-style article
  8. Specialized writing style
  9. Writing a report
  10. Writing an article
  11. Writing an essay
  12. Writing up your notes
  13. Autumn semester test written
  14. Main features of essay
  15. Means of connecting ideas
  16. Organizing a paragraph
  17. Using direct and indirect speech
  18. Using quotations and references
  19. Effective taking notes
  20. Organizing a passage
  21. Characteristics of summary
  22. Writing a summary
  23. Keeping logical order in the text construction
  24. Basic features of description
  25. Exploiting source materials
  26. Spring semester test written

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Acquiring different skills necessary for writing: reading comprehension and summary, controlled writing, free composition and presentation. Note: this is a two-semester course

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

  • 75% attendance
  • Active participation in the seminars
  • Self-study and fulfilling the set written tasks

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VTI-DR-4 Doctoral

    branch DVI4 , any year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme VTI-DR-4 Doctoral

    branch DVI4 , any year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. PhDr. Milena Krhutová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  1. Basic writing styles
  2. Informal writing style
  3. Formal writing style
  4. General formal writing style
  5. Specialized-style characteristic
  6. Characteristics of general-style article
  7. Characteristics of specialized-style article
  8. Specialized writing style
  9. Writing a report
  10. Writing an article
  11. Writing an essay
  12. Writing up your notes
  13. Autumn semester test written
  14. Main features of essay
  15. Means of connecting ideas
  16. Organizing a paragraph
  17. Using direct and indirect speech
  18. Using quotations and references
  19. Effective taking notes
  20. Organizing a passage
  21. Characteristics of summary
  22. Writing a summary
  23. Keeping logical order in the text construction
  24. Basic features of description
  25. Exploiting source materials
  26. Spring semester test written

Fundamentals seminar

13 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. PhDr. Milena Krhutová, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  1. Tense system in English
  2. How to use tenses properly
  3. Kinds of sentences
  4. Relative pronouns
  5. Using participles
  6. Analysis of sentences
  7. Uses of the comma
  8. The right word in the right place
  9. Contrasts
  10. Negative prefixes
  11. Conjunctions and relative pronouns
  12. Articles
  13. Autumn semester test written
  14. Expressing possibilities
  15. Causes and effects
  16. Compound words
  17. Direct and indirect speech
  18. Personal pronouns used impersonally
  19. The phrasal verb
  20. Conditional sentences
  21. Various uses of the passive voice
  22. Contrast within a sentence
  23. Derived words
  24. Simple and complex sentences
  25. General sentence synthesis
  26. Spring semester test written