1. Stylistic correction of own piece of writing

students choose from their own bachelor’s thesis one chapter, range of 10 to 15 standard pages in total (approximately) and make proofreading of this text
basic guideline on best practice principles: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/styleforstudents/c1_p15.html
corrections are made in MS Word, directly in the text – problematic or incorrect parts are marked in some color and new text is written in

2. Overview text on the topic of plagiarism

students read the How to Avoid Plagiarism Handbook (available in Moodle) and then write an overview text reflecting content of the handbook (seven parts/chapters in total)
the range is from 0,5 to 1 standard page maximally on each part of the book

3. Abstract

abstract for this text (available in Moodle): Veronika Pehe (2015) The colours of socialism: visual nostalgia and retro aesthetics in Czech film and television, Canadian Slavonic Papers, 57:3-4, pp. 239–253
1000 characters maximally
basic rules for abstract writing: https://www.scribbr.com/dissertation/abstract/

4. Reading a book for review

students read one of the books listed below and prepare notes for future writing its overview; list of books for review

Valentina Fava. The socialist people’s car: automobiles, shortages and consent in the Czechoslovak road to mass production (1918–1964). Amsterdam, University Press 2013
Petr Roubal: Spartakiads. The Politics of Physical Culture in communist Czechoslovakia. Praha, Karolinum 2020
Miroslav Vaněk – Pavel Mücke: Velvet Revolutions. an oral history of Czech Society. Oxford University Press 2016

5. Review

writing and submitting of a review on the book read in previous week
some examples how to write a review, see Czech Journal of Contemporary History in English version (https://sd.usd.cas.cz/archive.php)
two standard pages minimally, three pages maximally

6. Preparation for public lecture

in the following weeks students will prepare their own lecture for a scientific conference, for example, the International Oral History Conference
the lecture content is prepared on the book read before; students prepare a 15-minutes conference paper presenting this book, the research respectively
this week students prepare basic overview (content) of the lecture, main ideas, etc.

7. Written text of a lecture

students prepare their lecture for a fifteen-minute performance at a conference, the scope is stated wit respect to the time given – 9 standard pages minimally, 11 standard pages maximally
it is not an article for a scientific journal, but a text to be presented at the conference – that is why the scope is rather minimalistic; the lecture should cover the main theses of the issue/text, research questions, basic findings, etc.

8. PowerPoint presentation for a lecture

students work on presentation (pptx) for the conference paper written before
two slides per one standard page of text, i.e., from 18 to 22 slides
the minimum font size on the slide is 28 points, no less; graphic form of the presentation is not specified (be creative)