Course detail
Writing Final Theses
FSI-0PZAcad. year: 2025/2026
The Final Thesis Writing course provides students with language suitable for writing in technical academic contexts. This course wil provide students with tips and instructions on writing long academic texts in Czech and in English. The focus is neither strictly scientific (as in final thesis seminars) nor bibliographic (literature research and referencing is covered by the FME library course). The central emphasis is placed on the text (structuring information in academic writing both in Czech and in English). The course includes an e-learning module.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
GEN3 examination recommended.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
The credit comprises regular attendance and e-learning exercises. The examination will be a test.
Attendance is compulsory and is checked on a regular basis. In well-founded cases, absences can be made up for after consulting the situation with the teacher.
Aims
Student will acquire and master
1. thinking processes resulting in expressing the topic, goals and thesis of their academic texts,
2. structuring an academic text and its parts (from the paragraph to the final thesis as a whole),
3. rhetorical functions available for expressing the contents of research into an appropriate communicative form,
4. skills to produce a coherent academic text,
5. skills to edit and format a text.
Students will acquire knowledge on structuring academic texts, which they will use in writing their final theses.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph. 2021. “Seven Steps to Writing a Literature Review.” Guides.Last modified November 15, 2021. https://guides.lib.uoguelph.ca/c.php?g=130964&p=5000948.
Černý, Michal. 2022. „Než začnete psát.“ In KISK: Kurz práce s informacemi . Masarykova univerzita.Accessed on July 27, 2022. https://kisk.phil.muni.cz/kpi/trash hanka/tvorba informaci jako proces/nezzacnete psat.
Čmejrková, Světla, František Daneš, and Jindra Světlá. 1999. Jak napsat odborný text. Prague: Leda.
McCombes, Shona. 2019. “How to Write a Literature Review.” Scribbr. Last modified August 27, 2021.https://www.scribbr.com/dissertation/literature-review/.
Rajdová, Ilja. 2019. Úvod do odborného stylu pro SPU II. Course content. Brno: Masaryk University.
Vránová, Martina. 2017. Research Paper in English. Course content. Brno: Brno University of Technology.
Wallwork, Adrian. English for Academic Research: Writing Exercises. New York: Springer, 2013.
Wallwork, Adrian. English for Wiritng Research Papers. New York: Springer, 2023. (EN)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Language exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Course information and the writing process.
- Academic language and rhetorical functions.
- Literature research (bachelor thesis).
- Research work (diploma thesis).
- Discussion of students' writing.