Course details

Culture of Speech and the Generation of Texts

KPT Acad. year 2006/2007 Summer semester 5 credits

Current academic year

Rhetoric strengthens self-confidence in speech and recite, and supports them. The students will become familiar with basic issues and principles of how to conduct a discussion, how to use arguments and some dodges the speaker may use.

Guarantor

Language of instruction

Czech

Completion

Credit

Time span

  • 39 hrs lectures
  • 13 hrs exercises

Department

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

The ability to conduct a discussion and ability of reading lectures at a high level.

Learning objectives

Practical training in the generation of scientific texts in order to make them understandable. One part of the course deals with standards and regulations of written documents in effect in the European Union.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

To be interested in given problems, and to have the minimum knowledge in writing.

Study literature

  • Davidová, D.: K diferenciaci současného mluveného jazyka, sborník prací z mezinárodní konference, Ostrava 1994
  • Konopková, L.: Technika řeči a kultura mluveného projevu, skripta MU, 1997

Fundamental literature

  • Konopková, L.: Technika řeči a kultura mluveného projevu, skripta MU, 1997

Syllabus of lectures

  • Information and the modes of passing it to the listeners.
  • Communication models
  • Components of communication
  • Solution to basic models of pedagogical situations
  • Models of assertiveness skills
  • How to cope with criticism and assertive education
  • Verbal expression from the point of view of psychology
  • Significance of the voice and hearing in the rhetoric
  • Speaker's personality
  • Preparation of a lecture, discussion, paper, statement, report
  • Text as a form of pedagogical communication
  • Theoretical issues of a text to make it intelligible.
  • Strategy of generation of a text to make it intelligible.

Progress assessment

Personal presence on at least 80 % of the lectures, compilation of an intelligible text.

Controlled instruction

Verbal performance.

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