1. Feedback (CV + letter) Spelling!!! Years in English Sender/recipient in hard-copy letters Avoid contracted forms (I’d → I would) Names of institutions, study programmes, positions etc. in capital letters (e.g. Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb) Make your letters slightly more personal and specific

2. Academic Skills Introduction

3. World-Class universities Source: Salmi, J. (2009).The Challenge of Establishing World-Class Universities. IBRD/The World Bank. THES: subjective inputs (peer review,employer surveys) objective inputs (quant.data: no.of intern. stud/faculty) faculty influence (e.g. no. of citations/publications, Nobel prizes,...) SJTU: objective inputs only *FT Executive Education ranking based on teaching methods, new skills, programme design, aims achieved, value for money,... :

4. What makes a world-class university? Highly qualified faculty Excellence in research Quality teaching Enough govt/non-govt funding International & highly qualified students Academic freedom Autonomous governance structures Well-equiped teaching/research/administration facilities

5. In other words, 3 things are needed... High concentration of talent Abundant resources Favourable governance

6. THES, 2011 1.California Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of Technology 2.Harvard UniversityHarvard University 3.Stanford UniversityStanford University 4.University of OxfordUniversity of Oxford 5.Princeton UniversityPrinceton University 6.University of CambridgeUniversity of Cambridge 7.Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of Technology 8.Imperial College LondonImperial College London 9.University of ChicagoUniversity of Chicago 10. University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley

7. SJTU 2011 1.Cambridge 2.Harvard 3.MIT 4.Yale 5.Oxford 6.Imperial College London 7.University College London 8.Chicago 9.Penn 10.Columbia

8. MBA FT ranking 2011 1.London Business School 2.Penn: Wharton 3.Harvard 4.Insead 5.Stanford 6.HK 7.Columbia

9. Masters in Management FT ranking 2011 1.St.Gallen 2.Cems 3.ESCP 4.HEC Paris 5.EM Lyon Business School 6.WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management 7.Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad 8.Essec Business School 9.Grenoble Graduate Schoolf of Business 10.Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

10. And all these universities require highly developed academic skills!!!

11. Academic skills? ‘academic skills’, ‘study skills’, ‘key skills’, ‘core skills’, ‘transferable skills’ necessary to achieve successful academic performance follow-up to basic skills in a higher education context needed later in professional careers

12. A vague term covering a lot … study skills research skills (incl. gathering & and selecting info) taking & making notes critical thinking discussing, debating problem-solving paraphrasing summarizing presenting social skills (teamwork) time management …

13. Apparently,very basic, yet, … Comprehension is a skill to be taught. (Shapiro) How to Write, Speak and Think More Effectively (Flesch) Writing summaries is a good practice here.

14. SUMMARY WRITING

15. Suggested procedure 1.Reading the source text 2.Giving headings to paragraphs 3.Grouping pgs. (text segmentation) 4.Making notes (clear structure: main ideas and logical relations) 5.Turning notes into full sentences *Technicalities: layout (paragraphing) + spelling/grammar check

16. EXAMPLES OF LOGICAL RELATIONS and words and expressions that can help Illustrations (examples) Listing Clarifying Cause-effect relationship Contrast

17. CONNECTORSYMBOL Illustrations,examples: For example, for instance, as an example...,To illustrate the point,... Listing: There are three reasons why..., (First)Firstly,..,Secondly,Thirdly,....Further, Furthermore,..., Moreover,...,Also,...

18. CONNECTORSYMBOL/ABBREVIAT. Illustrations,examples: For example, for instance, as an example...,To illustrate the point,... Listing: There are three reasons why..., (First)Firstly,..,Secondly,Thirdly,....Further, Furthermore,..., Moreover,...,Also,... e.g. 1. 2. 3.

19. CONNECTORSYMBOL/ABBREV. clarifying: In other words,..., namely,.. cause-effect : as, because, because of, consequently, therefore, due to, owing to, thus,since contrast : however, on the contrary, on the other hand, nevertheless, conversely, although, though, even though, yet

20. CONNECTORSYMB./ABBREVIAT. clarifying: In other words,..., namely,.. cause-effect : as, because, because of, consequently, therefore, due to, owing to, thus,since contrast : however, on the contrary, on the other hand, nevertheless, conversely, although, though, even though, yet i.e. → vs.

21. Requirements for a good summary Introduction Concision Clarity Accuracy Completeness Coherence and cohesion Objectivity Rephrasing Language quality

22. Requirements for a good summary Introduction:(usually one sentence or one paragraph) covers the main topic + the source e.g. The Economist of 16 June 2011 reports on the problem of...... This is further related to … Concision(as brief as possible, danger: loss of clarity) Clarity (clear words/sentences/overall structure; topic sentences, paragraphing, connectors) Objectivity(only the author’s ideas, no personal views) Accuracy (true and precise information on essential ideas) Completeness(all key ideas, not necessarily in the same order ) Coherence and cohesion(the text runs smoothly; sentences and paragraphs are logically linked) Rephrasing sentences (avoid copying, rewrite in your own words if possible) Language: spelling and grammar

23. Summary writing – assessment tot: 20 points, 0-2 each 1.Introduction? 2.Concision? 3.Clarity? 4.Accuracy? 5.Completeness? 6.Coherence and cohesion? 7.Objectivity? 8.Rephrasing? 9.Language: spelling and grammar? 10.Overall impression?

24. Making notes while preparing to write a summary 1.Main ideas? 2.Logical relations? 3.How many parts (segments) of the text? (How many groups of paragraphs?) 4.Logical relations between larger parts of the text? Next slide: see sample notes on a text you may know from your 1st year of study

25. The pendulum of control Schiller, B.R. (1996).Essentials of Economics. McGraw-Hill. I2 OPPOSITE VIEWS (pgs.1, 2) Karl Marxvs. Adam Smith IILESS DRAMATIC CHOICES IN RECENT HISTORY (pgs.3-6) 1. Towards government intervention: e.g. New Deal 2. Towards free market in the 1990s: a) countries in transition (CEE) b) privatisations: W. Europe, Latin America, Asia c) Republican election victory