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Request for a language review of a manuscript

Dear Madam/Sir,

I would like to ask you for a language assessment of the manuscript, submitted to the Editorial
Board of the Faculty of Arts of Masaryk University to be published in the Writings of the Faculty
of Arts of Masaryk University editorial series.


Yours sincerely,


Name Surname

Job title

                                  LANGUAGE REVIEW OF A MANUSCRIPT

Manuscript to be reviewed

Name of the author (including academic degrees):


Title of the manuscript:


Date of receipt of the manuscript for a language review:


Reviewer

Name of the reviewer (including academic degrees):


Workplace:


Contact details of the reviewer:



Result of the manuscript review


                                                Yes

                                                No

Not assessed

The manuscript has been proofread for grammar.




The manuscript has been proofread for style.




The manuscript is properly and clearly subdivided into chapters and subchapters and as a whole it
meets the requirements for cohesion and coherence of text.




The apparatus of notes is clear and is composed according to a uniform (arbitrarily chosen)
citation standard.




The manuscript contains a multi-page foreign language resumé. (The author guarantees the adequacy
of its content.)




The manuscript contains a list of used literature.




The list of used literature is uniform, composed according to a single (arbitrarily chosen)
citation standard.




The manuscript has undergone review and correction of the bibliographic data; the bibliographic
data contain all mandatory items according to the chosen citation standard and are composed in a
uniform manner.




Any other parts of the manuscript (image materials, graphs, tables) are properly integrated into
the text and their description is consistent with the chosen citation standard.





Comments on individual items (please, specify clearly and briefly what further work is required on
the manuscript before it can be submitted for typesetting):




Final recommendation

                                                                                            Yes

                                                                                                                                               No

The manuscript can be immediately submitted for typesetting.



The manuscript needs minor corrections, but it is almost ready for typesetting.



The manuscript has not been proofread and cannot be submitted for typesetting in its current
condition.





Date and place:

               Signature:



Academic book (type of result B)

Definition

An “academic book” presents original results of a research performed by the author of the book or a
team of researchers the author was a member of. A book is a non-periodic expert publication of at
least 50 printed pages of text, not including photographic, image, map, etc. attachments, issued in
print or electronically and assessed (reviewed) by at least two generally recognized experts
(outside the author’s/authors’ workplace) in the respective field in the form of a peer review. It
addresses a precisely defined problem in a specific scientific field, includes the formulation of
an identifiable and scientifically recognized methodology (explicitly formulated methodological
foundations in application-oriented monographs and/or formulation of a new methodology based on
existing theoretical research in the field). Formal attributes of an academic book include
references to literature in the text, list of used literature, summary in at least one world
language, possibly explanatory notes and bibliography of sources.

The book has an ISBN or ISMN code assigned. The whole book is created by a single team of authors
(regardless of the proportion of the content contributed by each of the members), even if
individual chapters of the book have separate authorship. Academic books include, for example,
monographs, scholarly encyclopaedias and lexicons, critical editions of sources, critical editions
of art (music, graphic, etc.) materials accompanied by studies, critically commented translations
of specialized philosophical, historical or philological texts accompanied by studies,
scientifically conceived language dictionaries and explanatory dictionaries, critical exhibition
catalogues, etc., provided that they meet the above-defined formal criteria.

For multi-volume scientific monographs, each volume may be included in the register, if it
individually meets the required criteria and has been published as a separate publication with its
own ISBN. If the academic book is included in the register as a result of type B, its chapters
cannot be classified as a result of type C for the same submitter.


Academic books do not include:

-          books that do not have an ISBN or ISMN assigned;

-          educational texts (i.e., textbooks, course materials);

-          expert opinions and statements, studies, translations, manuals, informational and
promotional publications, yearbooks (except those that meet the requirements for an academic book),
annual or similar periodic reports;

-          published diploma, doctoral, habilitation and dissertation theses, based on primary
works of type J[imp], with comments and ISBN code;

-          common language dictionaries;

-          printed or electronically published research collections, dedicated summaries of
academic works (e.g., within a single workplace), printed or electronically published collections
of abstract, expanded abstract or oral communications from conferences;

-          methodological manuals, catalogues and standards;

-          collections of proceedings (individual contributions in the proceedings are a result of
type D);

-          fiction, popular science literature, travel books, theatre play scripts;

-          selective bibliographies, annual reports, speeches, event reports, student contest
proceedings, tourist guides;

-          commercial translations from foreign languages;

-          memoirs, information materials, popularizing monographs, biographies, autobiographies,
dedicated monograph-style final reports from grants or projects.