Week 6: International Law

Monday 28th Feb

Mr. Niall Douglas

Schedule for today

9am-10am: Review of last week’s grades

10am-11am: The Corporation part 1

11.20am-12pm: The Corporation part 2

12pm-12.20pm: Business vocab 12.20pm-12.40pm: Explain tonight’s

reading 12.40pm-1.20pm: Explain this

week’s group task

Before anything else ...

Congratulations once again to Group 3 who won last week’s Group Presentations!

I hope you enjoy your prize!

Last week’s grades

I am only about half way through marking your exam scripts ...

Weighting is:1. 10% attendance2. 30% vocab3. 30% written question4. 30% Group Task written report

Last week’s grades

Average: 88% 62% 65% ? 59%

Attendance Vocab Written Project Percent100% 83% 90% 65% 81.36%100% 81% 65% 50% 68.93%100% 73% 65% 50% 66.36%75% 66% 55% 65% 63.21%100% 63% 60% 50% 61.86%75% 46% 70% 65% 61.71%50% 59% 65% 50% 57.07%75% 49% 55% 60% 56.57%

Last week’s grades Why on average you did so badly:

1. Not answering the question

2. Repeating points you already made (i.e. Padding)

3. Writing non sequiturs (meaningless comments which have no bearing on the answer) i.e. Padding

4. Lack of academic referencing and citations for facts

Last week’s grades Padding answers = wasting words = wasting

marks

Every word you write needs to “earn” you marks

At my Business School, we would prewrite exam answers and learn them off by heart in order to maximise how much we wrote

This means instead of thinking of what to write in the exam you are instead writing constantly and therefore earning more marks

Last week’s grades In academic writing and business reports you

must ALWAYS academically reference facts with citations

If you cannot find a trusted source for a fact, you CANNOT use it as a fact (maybe you can as a supposition, opinion or logical strawman)

To achieve a top grade, 80% of anything you EVER write should be properly referenced and citated facts!

Academic referencing

What’s a trusted source? In order of trustworthiness:1. Articles from peer reviewed journals

2. Government statistics

3. Books from well regarded academics

4. Sometimes newspapers

Academic referencing

How do you reference? In Business academia, the Harvard

Business Review is the most important academic journal in the world

It uses the “Harvard referencing style” for citations

These look like this ...

Academic referencing

As McGeady (2006, pp. 250-253) reports, calves born more than three months early have a 26% increased chance of morbidity.

OR

... given how calves born more than three months early have a 26% increased chance of morbidity (McGeady 2006, pp. 250-253).

McGeady, T. A. et al (2006) Veterinary embryology. Oxford: Blackwell.

Academic Referencing

There are other styles of academic referencing e.g. IEEE, APA, ISO 690

I personally don’t care which you use so long as you use one

Other academics will vary. Some are VERY finickety about using a very specific style and will automatically fail any paper not using the “right” one

Last week’s grades

Questions?

The Corporation The Corporation is the dominant institution of our

time

It is entirely a LEGAL CONSTRUCTION

Because of how it has been LEGALLY DEFINED, there are massive consequences for our planet and our society

We spent two full weeks at my Business School studying this documentary. Sadly, we only get half a day here.

Group Assignments for this week

1. Alexandre, Romain, Clemence, Julie

2. Rachida, Sitra, Maxime, Jeremy

3. Leslie, Louis, Calvin, Anne-Charlotte

4. Hubert, Steven, Manon, Tanguy, Camille

Business Vocab

Multiple choice Business Vocab ...

Tonight’s reading

Explain Tonight’s reading

This Week’s Group Task

Explain this week’s Group Task

Group Task Work Plans

Check Group Task Work Plans