V000 Elements of Style

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2001
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc. (lecturer)
PhDr. Petr Peňáz (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Timetable of Seminar Groups
V000/01: Wed 13:00–14:50 B204
V000/02: Wed 15:00–16:50 B204
V000/03: Thu 10:00–11:50 C416
V000/04: Thu 12:00–13:50 C416
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • Communication Skills, Practical Writing
  • Communication maxims, basic principles of the positive communication.
  • Communication barriers and the ways of getting over them.
  • Language and communication, various registers and styles.
  • Language correctness and the principles of correct writing. Spelling, orthography, language support software.
  • Colloquial and Common Czech, Dialects, slangs.
  • Writing technical and research documents, their composition, vertical and horizontal structuring, lexical features, terms, terminology.
  • Oral and written presentations: talks, lectures, articles, posters etc.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1995, Spring 1996, Autumn 1996, Spring 1997, Autumn 1997, Spring 1998, Autumn 1998, Spring 1999, Autumn 1999, Spring 2000, Autumn 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2001, recent)
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