Students know
• the content-related and formal cornerstones of academic research and writing, can specify the essential rules, and apply them in a practically and logically correct way.
They are able to
• prepare a topic in the form of a scientific report, a scientific paper, a scientific poster and an abstract.
They are able to
• Systematically and efficiently get the essential literature for a job and cite it adequately
They are familiar with
•the rules and methods of academic work.

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Theory
Fundamentals of Academic Research and Writing
• Concept development and structuring of theoretical and practical work
• Development of relevant research questions
• Presentation of scientific papers
• Practical relation of scientificity to application in study
• Scientific language and educational neutrality
• Epistemological aspects of scientific work
• Practical rules for good scientific practice
• Plagiarism issue
• Logic of research, premises, axiom systems, proper logical reasoning
• Types of scientific work
• History of science
• Scientificity in applied sciences
• Practical tools for automated citation of sources
• Practice Rules of Scientific Communities
Practical Application
• Practical literature research of all essentials literature types in literature databases on selected topics and application of the theory
• Creation of a selected type of scientific work using theory

M. Karmasin, R. Ribing, Die Gestaltung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten, Ein
Leitfaden für Seminararbeiten, Bachelor-, Master- und Magister­arbeiten, Diplomarbeiten und Dissertationen, UTB Verlag, 2008.
M. René, Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten, Technik Methodik Form, Vahlen Verlag, 2008.
Wie man eine wissenschaftliche Abschlußarbeit schreibt, 2010, Umberto Eco und Walter Schick, UTB Wissenschaft
Regulae ad directionem ingenii/Regeln zur Ausrichtung der Erkenntniskraft: René Descartes, 1973
Karl Popper, Logik der Forschung, 2007
A New Kind of Science, 2002, Stephen Wolfram

Lecture (VO)

General examination