Methodology of Academic Work

Syllabus

1. Definition of basic terms and differences - academic work versus scientific work. Explanation of some paired terms - science and practice; research and development; thesis and hypothesis; qualitative and quantitative research; basic and applied research. The main types of academic papers. 2. The emergence of theory and its relevance to economics and management - definition of theory; qualitative criteria of theory; basic components of theory; other aspects of theory. How to work with theory? Main theoretical directions in economics and management. 3 Introduction to statistics, basic descriptive statistics 1. Data and variables - basic concepts; variable and its types; data matrix. Nominal variables - statistical description of nominal variables; frequency table for nominal variables; graph for nominal variables; mutability of nominal variables. 4. Introduction to statistics, basic descriptive statistics 2. Ordinal variables - statistical description of ordinal variables; frequency table for ordinal variables; box plot. Cardinal variables - statistical description of cardinal variables; arithmetic mean; histogram; measures of absolute variability; measures of relative variability. 5. Fundamentals of generalization in statistics - introduction to sampling logic; sampling; types of sampling procedures; parameters of the base and sample sets; normal distribution; standardized normal distribution model. Theory of statistical estimation. 6. How to do a good literature search? Activities prior to conducting a literature search. Activities during a literature search. Activities after the literary research. Formulating the research question. 7. Statistical testing - analogy of testing and judgment process (decision options, types of errors, formulation of hypotheses, generalization of decision); analytical procedures - basic tasks, t-tests, correlations. 8. How to process and formalize an academic paper? Internal guideline No. 8/2021 on thesis, rigor and habilitation. Citation - ways of recording citations. Good and bad examples of citation practice. 9. How to prepare abstract materials? Basic elements of an abstract. Forms of abstracts according to the type of academic output. Good and bad examples of practice. 10. MS Word - styles in documents. Working with a large document in MS Word - styles (creating a new style, editing a style, linking numbering to a style, template). Heading styles, text styles, styles for other objects in the document. 11. MS Word - sections and references in documents. Working with a large document in MS Word environment - creating sections in a document, working with sections in a document, different settings in sections. References in a document - use of descriptions and cross references in a document, footnotes. 12. MS Word - editing a large document - editing a large document following the guidelines in the EU Directive. Working with references - creating a table of contents (inserting, editing, updating), list of figures, graphs and tables. 13. MS Word - citations and bibliography, document revision. Working with citations and bibliography in MS Word environment. Document review and assessment - proofreading, commenting, tracking changes, comparing documents, document security. Creating citations in Google Scholar.