Guidelines for Editing Professional Texts

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

The course provides assistance in the high-quality preparation of the thesis, dean's thesis, presentation (for the defense and others), articles, other scientific publications, work plans, tender documentation, CV, and minutes.

Participants can gain practical knowledge of the basics of copyright; the correct use of templates; how to correctly cite literary sources; what are the rules, structural and formal bases for creating figures, tables, and textual content elements; how to edit, format, and prepare a written work for printing.

During the practical lessons, participants can learn to use document and text editor, presentation maker, and citation manager software (including World, PowerPoint, and Excel).

During the lessons, the participants can work with example documents or even with their own research material (e.g. their thesis, dean's project, the outline of these). They can learn about common mistakes in theses and presentations, the difficulties experienced, and the simplest possible (often automated) solutions.

Lectures

• 1. Basics of editing documents, copyright - Csikós Eszter

Practices

• 1. Publication and document editing programs - Csikós Eszter
• 2. Basic functions of text editing programs - Csikós Eszter
• 3. Types and formatting requirements of professional documents, basics of their editing - Csikós Eszter
• 4. Segmentation, (automated) formatting of headings, sub-headings, paragraphs, typographical basics, built-in functions - Csikós Eszter
• 5. References in text, figures, and bibliography - Csikós Eszter
• 6. Citation/reference management software - Csikós Eszter
• 7. Formatting pictures, figures, tables - Csikós Eszter
• 8. Infographics, graphical abstracts - Csikós Eszter
• 9. Spell checking software - Csikós Eszter
• 10. Tips and tricks, opportunities for cooperation, AI - Csikós Eszter
• 11. Recurring errors - Csikós Eszter

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Notes

Recommended literature

The user guides of the used programs are available on the Internet

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Completing practical tasks in class

Mid-term exams

Active participation in the sessions

Making up for missed classes

The instructor determines it on a case-by-case basis

Exam topics/questions

No exam - active participation and completion of class assignments

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Csikós Eszter