Course details

Writing Final Theses

0PZ FSI 0PZ Acad. year 2025/2026 Winter semester 3 credits

Current academic year

The Final Thesis Writing course provides students with language suitable for writing in technical academic contexts. This course wil provide students with tips and instructions on writing long academic texts in Czech and in English. The focus is neither strictly scientific (as in final thesis seminars) nor bibliographic (literature research and referencing is covered by the FME library course). The central emphasis is placed on the text (structuring information in academic writing both in Czech and in English). The course includes an e-learning module.

Guarantor

Vránová Martina, Mgr., Ph.D. (IFL)

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Credit+Examination

Time span

  • 13 hrs exercises

Department

Institute of Foreign Languages (ÚJ)

Learning objectives

Student will acquire and master

1. thinking processes resulting in expressing the topic, goals and thesis of their academic texts,

2. structuring an academic text and its parts (from the paragraph to the final thesis as a whole),

3. rhetorical functions available for expressing the contents of research into an appropriate communicative form,

4. skills to produce a coherent academic text,

5. skills to edit and format a text.


Students will acquire knowledge on structuring academic texts, which they will use in writing their final theses.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

GEN3 examination recommended.

Fundamental literature

  • Čmejrková, Světla, František Daneš, and Jindra Světlá. 1999. Jak napsat odborný text. Prague: Leda.

  • Gardner, Peter S. 2005. “The Essentials of Writing.” In New Directions: Reading, Writing and CriticalThinking. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 102–32.
  • McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph. 2021. “Seven Steps to Writing a Literature Review.” Guides.Last modified November 15, 2021. https://guides.lib.uoguelph.ca/c.php?g=130964&p=5000948.

  • McCombes, Shona. 2019. “How to Write a Literature Review.” Scribbr. Last modified August 27, 2021.
    https://www.scribbr.com/dissertation/literature-review/.

  • Wallwork, Adrian. English for Academic Research: Writing Exercises. New York: Springer, 2013.

  • Černý, Michal. 2022. „Než začnete psát.“ In KISK: Kurz práce s informacemi . Masarykova univerzita.
    Accessed on July 27, 2022. https://kisk.phil.muni.cz/kpi/trash hanka/tvorba informaci jako proces/nez
    zacnete psat.

  • Rajdová, Ilja. 2019. Úvod do odborného stylu pro SPU II. Course content. Brno: Masaryk University.

  • Vránová, Martina. 2017. Research Paper in English. Course content. Brno: Brno University of Technology.

  • Wallwork, Adrian. English for Wiritng Research Papers. New York: Springer, 2023. 

Progress assessment

The credit comprises regular attendance and e-learning exercises. The examination will be a test.


Attendance is compulsory and is checked on a regular basis. In well-founded cases, absences can be made up for after consulting the situation with the teacher.

How to contact the teacher

Teachers may be contacted via email or in the office hours.

Course inclusion in study plans

  • Programme BIT, 3rd year of study, Elective
  • Programme BIT (in English), 3rd year of study, Elective
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