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Lecturer(s)
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Mildnerová Kateřina, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Látal Martin, Mgr.
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Course content
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1. Introduction: what is an academic text, how to identify it, and how to start reading? 2. How is an academic text made? The core logic of an academic text and its forms 3. Where to find academic texts? Online sources, libraries, and other sources; primary sources 4. Structure of academic text 5. Argumentation in academic texts: from research question to conclusion 6. Terminology in academic texts 7. AI and academic reading 8. Language of academic texts - translations and subfield specifics 9. Popularization texts, journalism and how to treat them 10. Basic presentation skills; academic text are not just written 11. Student presentations 12. Student presentations 13. Finals week
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
- Attendace
- 24 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 30 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Course Credit
- 30 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the basic principles of working with academic texts. The academic reading course focuses on the principles of literature review, starting with the identification of relevant texts, through active reading and note-taking, to summarizing them in both written and oral form. Special attention is given to the implications of the growing use of AI in the academic process. Students will explore these topics through lectures, practical exercises, and work with selected texts.
Graduates of this course are able to critically read and understand scholarly texts, identify the basic genres of the social sciences, and actively work with scholarly texts and their terminology. They are able to identify the main structure, key ideas, research methods, arguments, and conclusions of the authors and, based on these, prepare a summary and abstract of the presented text. Graduates have practiced the principles of oral presentation in an academic setting. They are also able to evaluate the use of AI tools in academic reading and have a basic understanding of how to recognize AI use in texts written by other authors.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
Regular attendance (max. 3 absences) Regular reading - materials in Moodle Oral presentation during the semester Homework assignment during the semester: work with AI Three written summaries (1-2 pages each) based on academic texts
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Recommended literature
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Kosmyna, N., Hauptmann, E., Yuan, Y. T., Situ, J., Liao, X.-H., Beresnitzky, A. V., Braunstein, I., & Maes, P. Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task. , 2025.
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Öbrink, M. (2015). Speak up! A short manual for students (and everyone else) in how to present stuff in front of an audience.
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Šanderová, J. (2005). Jak číst a psát odborný text ve společenských vědách.
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