1. After clarification of the reasons for necessity of professional presentation, student is acquainted with main communication channels and types of scientific presentation. Attention is further focused on theses, types of scientific articles and their specifics.
2. General structure of professional presentation is discussed - choice of title, order of authors, keywords, abstract and its forms, introduction, experimental methods, results, discussion, conclusion, references, acknowledgement – and attention is paid to differences in the structure in dependence on type of the presentation. Students receive a short scientific article to read at home.
3. Different citation styles and tools to create them are shown. Further, attention is paid to processing of data in the form of pictures, graphs, schemes, and tables. Students try to write abstract of the article they received last time. Discussion follows.
4. Based on the previous topic, factors influencing comprehensibility of the results (type of graph, selection of scale, correlation vs. causality, etc.) are presented, including examples. Practical exercise to identify errors in graphs and tables.
5. Other possible mistakes in presentations are discussed and students try to identify them on examples of real articles. Students are acquainted with the objective and course of the review process. Attention is paid also to plagiarism.
6. Major scientific publishers and various types of databases are listed. Services of the library at VŠB-TUO and access to them are presented. Students are acquainted with the open access approach and with predatory journals.
7. Practical examples of work with WoS and Scopus databases are presented. Search is demonstrated and issues of author identification are discussed. The Hirsch index is explained. Students receive tasks for individual work with the database.
8. Basic bibliometric terms are presented. Results of independent work with the database are discussed. Students are acquainted with other databases (ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, etc.).
9. In purely practical exercise, students perform literary research on the topic of their thesis.
10. Students are acquainted with methodology of evaluation of scientific results in Czech Republic, with categories in the field of research, and with RIV and OBD databases. Each student starts to prepare a presentation on selected part of his/her thesis.
11. Each student presents a selected part of his / her thesis. Other participants in the seminar are his/her audience. The total time for one student is 20 min (10 min presentation, 10 min discussion).
12. Each student presents a selected part of his / her thesis. Other participants in the seminar are his/her audience. The total time for one student is 20 min (10 min presentation, 10 min discussion).
13. Each student presents a selected part of his / her thesis. Other participants in the seminar are his/her audience. The total time for one student is 20 min (10 min presentation, 10 min discussion).
14. The test.
2. General structure of professional presentation is discussed - choice of title, order of authors, keywords, abstract and its forms, introduction, experimental methods, results, discussion, conclusion, references, acknowledgement – and attention is paid to differences in the structure in dependence on type of the presentation. Students receive a short scientific article to read at home.
3. Different citation styles and tools to create them are shown. Further, attention is paid to processing of data in the form of pictures, graphs, schemes, and tables. Students try to write abstract of the article they received last time. Discussion follows.
4. Based on the previous topic, factors influencing comprehensibility of the results (type of graph, selection of scale, correlation vs. causality, etc.) are presented, including examples. Practical exercise to identify errors in graphs and tables.
5. Other possible mistakes in presentations are discussed and students try to identify them on examples of real articles. Students are acquainted with the objective and course of the review process. Attention is paid also to plagiarism.
6. Major scientific publishers and various types of databases are listed. Services of the library at VŠB-TUO and access to them are presented. Students are acquainted with the open access approach and with predatory journals.
7. Practical examples of work with WoS and Scopus databases are presented. Search is demonstrated and issues of author identification are discussed. The Hirsch index is explained. Students receive tasks for individual work with the database.
8. Basic bibliometric terms are presented. Results of independent work with the database are discussed. Students are acquainted with other databases (ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, etc.).
9. In purely practical exercise, students perform literary research on the topic of their thesis.
10. Students are acquainted with methodology of evaluation of scientific results in Czech Republic, with categories in the field of research, and with RIV and OBD databases. Each student starts to prepare a presentation on selected part of his/her thesis.
11. Each student presents a selected part of his / her thesis. Other participants in the seminar are his/her audience. The total time for one student is 20 min (10 min presentation, 10 min discussion).
12. Each student presents a selected part of his / her thesis. Other participants in the seminar are his/her audience. The total time for one student is 20 min (10 min presentation, 10 min discussion).
13. Each student presents a selected part of his / her thesis. Other participants in the seminar are his/her audience. The total time for one student is 20 min (10 min presentation, 10 min discussion).
14. The test.