Course: Fundamentals of Scientific Communication

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Course title Fundamentals of Scientific Communication
Course code AFC/ZVK
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory, Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Drahoš Bohuslav, doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Nemec Ivan, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
1) structure, methods of elaboration, and other requisites of final student theses (Bc., Mgr., Ph.D.) 2) types and structure of scientific articles (communication, full paper, review, etc.) 3) procedure for elaboration of a scientific article (data collection and processing, authorship and co-authorship, the role of the correspondent author) 4) procedure for publishing the article - communication with the editors of the journal, peer-review, proofs, etc. 5) scientific presentation in the form of a lecture 6) scientific presentation in the form of a poster 7) popularization-educational article 8) patents and other forms of publishing scientific work 9) ethics of scientific work (plagiarism, standards of scientific practice and falsification of data, etc.)

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
Learning outcomes
Within this course, the student should get acquainted with the basic information channels in scientific communication (oral and written). He/she will be introduced to how the final student thesis should be prepared, how to prepare and publish a scientific article (the most common form of the published research data), learn to present a scientific presentation and poster and will be acquainted with other forms of publishing scientific information. Last but not least, the ethics of scientific work will be discussed, including compliance with the standards of scientific practice.
The student will gain extended theoretical and practical knowledge of how the results of scientific work are published and communicated.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance

Attendance and preparation of scientific presentations in various forms (lecture, article, poster, etc.)
Recommended literature
  • Šesták, Z. (2000). Jak psát a přednášet o vědě. Praha: Academia.
  • Taufer, I. a kol. (2009). Jak psát a obhajovat závěrečnou práci. Skriptum, Univerzita Pardubice.
  • Vymětal, J. (2001). Odborná literatura a informace v chemii. Orac, Praha.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Science Study plan (Version): Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry - specialization in Inorganic Materials (2021) Category: Chemistry courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Science Study plan (Version): Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry - specialization in Bioinorganic Chemistry (2021) Category: Chemistry courses 2 Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Winter