Course detail
Introduction to Bachelor Thesis - SCH
FCH-BCA_UBP_SCHAcad. year: 2018/2019
The course aims to introduce students to aspects of academic writing with regard to the specifics of writing theses. Attention is paid to the general principles of writing individual parts (Abstract, Introduction, theoretical part and experimental part, results and discussion, conclusion) and procedures for submitting theses Faculty of Chemistry BUT. The course also discusses the principles of processing and presenting experimental data that are used in chemical engineering practice, and notes the frequent transgressions observed in graduate work. Part of the course is also familiar with the typographic principles covered by the relevant standard.
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Course curriculum
Introduction to the thesis: instructions and guidelines for the preparation of the thesis and the final exam, structure of scientific text and its components,
Rules for processing theses at FCH BUT, standards and rules for processing of the technical work, typographic rules, rules for preparation of charts, tables, images, attachments, appendices etc.,
Information resources and databases, rules for citations, laws and ethics,
Experimental data processing: Tools, Options, and methods of data processing, data collection, data processing, display and basic data analysis, expression variability, measures of location, diameter grouped data, weighted average, correlation, linear regression, uncertainty of direct measurement, indirect measurement uncertainty, combined and expanded uncertainty, etc.
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Basic literature
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Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BKCP_CHCHT Bachelor's
branch BKCO_SCH , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
- Programme BPCP_CHCHT Bachelor's
branch BPCO_SCH , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional