Course: Academic Text Analysis

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Course title Academic Text Analysis
Course code USP/Z2AOT
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Navrátilová Hana, PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Plisková Barbora, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
- Text definition. - Purpose of the text. - The content of the text. The form of text. - Author and addressees of the text. Intertextuality. - Characteristics of the professional text - factual, content, formal and linguistic aspects. - Structure of the text. Various forms of information organisation: descriptive, contrasting, classification, sequential, chronological, etc. - Traditional text and hypertext. - Aim and focus of text analysis. - Informal and exact analysis. - Analysis versus critical reading. - Focus of analysis: content, terminology, structure, language. - Analysis procedures: Selection of texts. Determination of analytical unit. Encoding. - Data processing and interpretation. - Use of the results of the analysis.

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
prerequisite
Knowledge
unspecified
unspecified
learning outcomes
define text in terms of form and content
define text in terms of form and content
characterise aspects of academic text
characterise aspects of academic text
describe methods of academic text analysis
describe methods of academic text analysis
explain different forms of organization of text information
explain different forms of organization of text information
describe strategies of academic text comprehension
describe strategies of academic text comprehension
Skills
determine analytical units of a text
determine analytical units of a text
write anotation of academic text
write anotation of academic text
interprete data for selected research topics
interprete data for selected research topics
write academic text with data results
write academic text with data results
interprete selected specialist text
interprete selected specialist text
Recommended literature
  • Dvořáková, H. Obsahová analýza / formální obsahová analýza / kvantitativní obsahová analýza. Antropowebzin. 2, 95- 99. Dostupné na http://antropologie.zcu.cz/webzin/index.php/webzin/article/view/97/97. 2010.
  • Gavora, P. Obsahová analýza v pedagogickom výskume: Pohľad na jej súčasné podoby. Pedagogická orientace, 25(3), 345-371.. 2015.
  • Krippendorff, K. Content Analysis. An Introduction to Its Methodology. 2nd ed. London: Sage Publications, 2004.
  • Mayring, P. Qualitative Content Analysis. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 1(2), Art. 20. Dostupné na http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0002204. 2000.
  • Neuendorf, K. A. The content analysis guidebook. 2002.
  • Steel, J. L. et al. Co je kritické myšlení: vymezení pojmů a rámce E-U-R.. Praha.
  • Šanderová, J. Jak číst a psát odborný text ve společenských vědách: několik zásad pro začátečníky.


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