Pre-sessional Academic English and Study Skills: Useful Links for Study Listening and Note-taking UEfAP listening Lots of tips on lecture listening and lots of practice http://uefap.com/listen/listfram.htm Unilearning note-taking – advice on how to take good notes‚ quote and paraphrase http://unilearning.uow.edu.au/notetake/ Academic Listening Practice - Lectures TED - ideas worth spreading (video) Watch examples of how to make a really good presentation on a range of interesting subjects
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Internal Communication “Westwood Publishing” The people in the case: - Linda Bosworth: CEO of Westwood Publishing - Catherine Callahan: Vice President of Human Resources - Eric Ridgway: Vice President of Corporate Communication - Dan Cassidy: Director of employee relations - Craig Stevens: Outside Public relations consultant Westwood Publishing MBA 9 Westwood in the1990’s - Westwood is one the most important publishing firm in the USA. - It was started by Linda Bosworth in the middle
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eyes focus on profit. To achieve a goal of profit‚ they need to carefully consider growth and control at the same time. In this case‚ employees may give no attention to any aspects. Creating good books are likely to be a priority for people in a publishing company. The company has to develop a performance measurement and control system which creates strong attentions to profit and growth among the employees. Short-term versus long-term Ramsey’s strategy seems short-term focus and lacks a long-term
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Instructions Required: Question #1What emphasis should Walker & Co. place on the children’s book line over the long term and why? | Question #2Assume that Ramsay is committed to publishing 9 new titles in the picture format‚ but the target number of titles for each of the other four formats (within the children’s book line) must still be set. What targets should be set for new titles for each of the remaining formats within the children’s book line in 1998 and
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it. One example is JSTOR‚ which is short for Journal Storage. It is a digital library that was founded in 1955 and originally contained digitized back issues of academic journals. Now it also includes books‚ primary sources and current issues of almost 2000 journals. As JSTOR is a proprietary database‚ it is mainly licensed to academic institutions‚ public libraries‚ research institutions‚ museums and schools. (“At a glance”(PDF).JSTOR. February 13‚ 2012. Retrieved December 1‚ 2012). Another example
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2004 found that one-third of students age 12 – 17 admitted to cheating and the percentage increased as the students got older and felt more grade pressure. If a book entitled “How to Cheat: A User’s Guide” would generate a positive NPV‚ Assume the publishing company has a cost of capital of 8% and estimates it could sell 10‚000 volumes by the end of year one and 5‚000 volumes in each of the following two years. The immediate printing costs for the 20‚000 volumes would be $20‚000. The book would sell
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articles [3][4][5][6]. Researchers retire‚ but more new researchers emerge. Journals fold‚ but a higher number are introduced for the first time. Changes over time in the number of active researchers and journals describe the dynamics of both publishing and research‚ and the increase in absolute size of active production[5] However‚ the article has a static nature that makes it unique as a metric. Articles‚ once created and published‚ are rarely destroyed. They can always be re-activated and
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More specifically‚ the publishing industry is highly competitive and evolving‚ particularly fuelled by the evolution of technology (Leurdijk et al‚ 2012). The purpose of this essay is to research and demonstrate commercial awareness within the publishing industry based around the media company News Corp. This paper shall argue that the use of social media‚ networking‚ and industry analysis are all viable methods to build and sustain professional knowledge within the publishing industry and obtain graduate
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Technology Helps Starbucks Find New Ways to Compete 1. Analyze Starbucks using the competitive forces and value chain models. The environment in which the specialty coffee industry had to compete during the 2008 was made up of cheaper fast food chain and global economic downturn. Compare with McDonald’s and Dunkin’ Donuts‚ Starbucks offers a unique experience: high-end specialty coffees and beverages‚ friendly and knowledgeable servers‚ and customer-friendly coffee shops. However more and more
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CAN THIS BOOKSTORE BE SAVED? Case Study By Vladimir Pimentel Barnes and Nobles is one of the biggest bookstores that has a brick-and-mortal store concept. In the past they were know as a “big bully” that drove small book stores to close down because of their aggressive tactics to have competetetive advantage over them. Nonetheless‚ with the evolving circle of technology they have had a hard time in keeping up with the E-book era. In 2014 E-books increased its reader subscription by 28%
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