bp4022 Culture of Speech and Academic Writing

Faculty of Sports Studies
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. PaedDr. Emanuel Hurych, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Jakub Palka (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. PaedDr. Emanuel Hurych, Ph.D.
Department of Physical Education and Social Sciences – Faculty of Sports Studies
Supplier department: Department of Physical Education and Social Sciences – Faculty of Sports Studies
Prerequisites (in Czech)
BOZP_OK(bozp_po_stud) && BOZP_OK(bozp_po_stud_fsps)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main aim of the course is to develop the students´abilities in the next main fields: Cultura of performance. Communication skills. Writing skills - scientific work, scientific methodology. Formal demands of the scientific text and abilitiy to work with sources. Presentation of the results in both the written and oral forms.
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to define basic demands on culture of performance in th eoral and written form and he/she will be also able to identify basic principles of culture within a model form of the presented outputs. In written form he/seh can use all the knowledge in the topographic, grammar and stylistic demonstrations. He/she will prove ability to work with written sources - their selection, meaningful implementation and using citation norms.
Syllabus
  • Culture of performance – written, oral, presented. Verbal and nonverbal performance, body speech. Cultural versus non-cultural. The fields of human communication and the specificities. Communication competence, communication in stress situations, communication in groups. Scientific works, scientific methodology. Sources and the process of searching and selecting information. The formal structure of the scientific texts, their characteristics, how to write introduction. Kinds of scientific texts and the specific parts. How to work with information, plagiary, ethics of research. Citations, bibliography, supplements, citation norms. Presentation of the results. Creative writing, processes (brainstorming, mind maps etc.).
Literature
    required literature
  • ŠANDEROVÁ, Jadwiga. Jak číst a psát odborný text ve společenských vědách. Praha: Sociologické nakladatelství, 2009, 209 pp. Studijní texty, 34. svazek. ISBN 978-80-86429-40-3. info
  • DEVITO, Joseph A. Základy mezilidské komunikace : 6. vydání. Translated by Jiří Rezek. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2008, 502 s. ISBN 9788024720180. info
    recommended literature
  • ŠTĚPANÍK, Jaroslav. Kultura projevu a komunikace (Speech Culture and Communication). Online. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, p. nestránkováno, 42 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6963-3. URL info
  • MIKULÁŠTÍK, Milan. Komunikační dovednosti v praxi. 2., dopl. a přeprac. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2010, 325 s. ISBN 9788024723396. URL info
  • ALLHOFF, Dieter-W and Waltraud ALLHOFF. Rétorika a komunikace : 14. vydání. Translated by Jana Bílková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Grada, 2008, 198 s. ISBN 9788024722832. info
  • VYBÍRAL, Zbyněk. Psychologie lidské komunikace (Psychology of the Human Communication). Praha: Portál, 2000, 264 pp. ISBN 80-7178-291-2. info
  • ECO, Umberto and Ivan SEIDL. Jak napsat diplomovou práci. Olomouc: Votobia, 1997, 271 s. ISBN 80-7198-173-7. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, practical exercises (individual and group projects), discussion, independent work
Assessment methods
The minimal presence in practical lessons = 80%; 1 active presentation during the term; the autoevaluation essay based on the presentation; written test (min. 15 points from 20).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2020, spring 2021, autumn 2021, spring 2022, autumn 2022, spring 2023, autumn 2023, spring 2024, autumn 2024.
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