POSUDEK VEDOUCÍHO BAKALÁŘSKÉ PRÁCE Jméno a příjmení studenta David Pavlát
Název práce Detroit’s Decline after 1929
Vedoucí práce Mgr. Petr Dujka
Obor Anglický jazyk pro manažerskou praxi
Forma studia Prezenční
Kritéria hodnocení práce Stupeň hodnocení
dle stupnice ECTS Formální stránka práce
Přehlednost a členění práce B
Úroveň jazykového zpracování A
Dodržení citační normy B
Obsahová stránka práce
Formulace cílů práce B
Práce s odbornou literaturou (uvádění zdrojů, kritický přístup) E
Metodika zpracování výzkumného problému B
Úroveň analytické a interpretační složky B
Formulace závěrů a splnění cílů práce B
Originalita a odborný přínos práce B
Odůvodnění hodnocení práce:
The author presents a thesis which shows the author’s interest in the topic as well as his remarkable language skills and his own thought processes. The thesis is well-structured, offers relevant points of view and arguments which shed more light on what stood behind the decline of the city of Detroit. Moreover, the author looks at the fall of Detroit after 1929 from perspectives which go beyond mere economic reasons which make the thesis an insightful piece of work.
However, the thesis could be significantly improved by including a chapter dealing with the periods leading up to the filing for bankruptcy in 2013.
The downside of the thesis is a lack of citations on many pages of the thesis where they would be expected. I believe it to be a truly unintentional error on the author’s part. The main reason to believe this is that author showed his own thought processes to a great extent while still citing sources in other necessary places. Another reason is the author’s frequent communication with his advisor throughout the whole writing process, offering his own ideas, clarifications of facts and various other perspectives about the matter. It is apparent that the arguments are supported by work with plenty of sources which are otherwise cited appropriately.
Despite this major flaw in terms of citations, the thesis is otherwise of high quality.
I would especially like to commend author’s tone of voice and command of the English language which contribute to the fact that the thesis is a worthy read. I also appreciate author’s initiative in all the meetings, willingness to challenge various thought processes as well as his endeavour in critical thinking which the reader can see woven throughout the thesis.
I highly value the author’s communication and work on the thesis which started many months in advance. I appreciate the author’s own decision to include a chapter on Pittsburgh which helps to bring a refreshing perspective from the point of view of a “neighbouring city” which struggled, too, but managed to get up on its feet again. This clearly shows that the author is thinking in a broader perspective, which is, to me, an essential part of what a university should help a student develop and, to a great extent, what a bachelor thesis ought to prove.
Otázky k obhajobě:
Can you explain the missing citations in the thesis?
Out of all the factors which you present in the thesis, which one would you highlight as being the one which contributed to the fall of Detroit the most?
Can you briefly elaborate on the potential that Detroit, unlike Pittsburgh and other cities in the United States, failed to take advantage of and which would probably help the city thrive again?
Práce byla zkontrolována systémem pro odhalování plagiátů Theses s výsledkem negativním/pozitivním. *
Celkové hodnocení** B
Datum: 31. 5. 2016 Podpis:
* Zvolte odpovídající hodnocení. Výsledek negativní znamená, že systém Theses nenašel shodu s jinými pracemi a hodnocená práce tedy není plagiát.
** Výsledná známka není aritmetickým průměrem jednotlivých kritérií hodnocení práce.
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