Course: Practical Seminar of Written Production

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Course title Practical Seminar of Written Production
Course code KZU/PTM
Organizational form of instruction Exercise
Level of course unspecified
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Mencl Alexander, Mgr.
Course content
1. Basic principles of composition writing reports. The transfer of theoretical knowledge into practice. 2. Report in the basic form. Entire message. Comparison of specific examples of printed periodicals, the creation of custom reports on the opening assignment. 3. Information sources. Research. How and where to find information on how to assess and use a specific text. 4. Working with the news agency. Practical arrangements agency reports into a newspaper report. 5. Create a short report based on specific information entered. How to write a report to the section "Briefly". 6. How to prepare poll. Practical test. 7. Information from the press conference, processing into a comprehensive report. 8. Working with the press announcement of the Office or agency. How to create a report from it. How to use the "report" from the newspapers and on city hall to work with it. 9. Interview as a key method of work as a genre. Intelligence Vs. journalistic interview. Processing of different types of interview according to specification. 10. How to write a story. Practical test. 11. Note, gloss, comment. Writing texts of opinion on the chosen topic. 12. Practical examination skills of students - writing news and current affairs texts in a specific time limit - "editorial deadline". 13. Continuous public presentation of processed text and discussion of them.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the seminars is to acquaint students with the practical skills needed to successfully manage journalistic written communication are realized in print, but also electronic media. Course participants learn the basic procedures required for treatment of the subject into newspaper and magazine news and current affairs contributions and concise thematic units. Part of the course, the workshops, the creation and presentation of texts on a given theme and change the final shape for the selected print medium.
Students will acquire skills of the course according to syllabus.
Prerequisites
Pass the course Basics of journalistic profession.

Assessment methods and criteria
Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary)

Required knowledge and skills: making own texts. Credit: - Active and creative work in the seminar by teaching requirements - Delivery of three of its own news and current affairs of three texts published in a domestic printed periodicals - Participation in the seminar (min. 75%) Colloquium: defense developed tasks.
Recommended literature
  • Bartošek, J.: Žurnalistika. Olomouc 1997; Příručka pro novináře střední a východní Evropy, Praha 1992; Dolanská, M.: Jak se stát Hemingwayem, Praha 1994..
  • BARTOŠEK, J. Zpravodajství a publicistika. Olomouc : UP, 2001.
  • BURNS, L. S. Žurnalistika. Praktická příručka pro novináře. Praha: Portál. 2004.
  • OSVALDOVÁ, B. A KOL. Praktická encyklopedie žurnalistiky. Praha : Libri, 2002.
  • OSVALDOVÁ, B. A KOL. Zpravodajství v médiích. Praha : Karolinum, 2001.
  • TUŠER, A. Ako sa robia noviny. Bratislava: SOFA, 1999.
  • WILSON, J. Understanding Journalism. London : Routledge, 1996.


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