Technical Writing

Course guarantor:

Jan Šístek

Lecturer:

Ivana Nová, František Rund, Jan Šístek

Tutor:

Ivana Nová, František Rund, Jan Šístek

Supervisor:

Department of Electromagnetic Field

Synopsis:

The course aims to help students with various technical or scientific reports (lab report, article, final thesis etc.) Also important is, in addition to language and stylistic skills, to show how to obtain and present scientific information. Given are also up-to-date methods for efficient typing and document automation, including LaTeX. All topics are practiced by related tasks in the Moodle.

Requirements:

1. Attend the seminars (max. 2* absent).

2. Complete the tasks in the Moodle.

3. To write, cross-review and defend a final miniproject.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Sorts and characteristics of technical and scientific literature.

2. How to write a final thesis.

3. Technical language specialties.

4. Bibliographics search and electronic documents.

5. Citations, ČSN ISO 690 standard, citation managers.

6. Data processing and plotting (MATLAB, Excel)..

7. Equations and graphics in text editors.

8. Publishing in LaTeX.

9. Text review and related terms in English-speaking environment.

10. Technical drawing, CAD, vector graphics.

11. Oral presentation, Powerpoint and Beamer.

12. Patents and utility models.

13. a 14. Presentation of miniprojects.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Introduction, language minitest.

2. Abstract.

3. Conclusion.

4. Description of an experiment, physical phenomenon etc.

5. Bibliographic search.

6. Citations, citation managers.

7. Graphs.

8. Text formatting in an editor.

9. Typesetting in LaTeX.

10. Text review.

11. Effective voice techniques.

12. Homework: miniprojects.

13.-14. Presentation of miniprojects.

Study Objective:

Study materials:

See the Czech description.

Note:

Further information:

https://moodle.fel.cvut.cz/courses/B2B99TPS

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu	roomT2:C3-340 Šístek J. Rund F. 12:45–14:15 (lecture parallel1) Dejvice roomT2:C3-52 Šístek J. Rund F. 18:00–19:30 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.103) Dejvice roomT2:C3-52 Šístek J. Rund F. 14:30–16:00 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.102) Dejvice roomT2:C3-52 Šístek J. Rund F. 16:15–17:45 (lecture parallel1 parallel nr.101) Dejvice
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Electronics and Communications 2018 (compulsory course in the program)