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A Guilde To Reading and Notetaking

This document provides guidance on how to effectively use bibliographies and reading lists for an International Business course. It recommends that students (1) read material from each section of the course to gain an overview of the key issues, (2) focus on introductions, conclusions, and summaries when initially reviewing readings rather than details, and (3) select interconnected items to build knowledge coherently rather than randomly on a given topic. The goal is to intelligently select a cross-section of relevant materials to enhance understanding of course concepts.

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A Guilde To Reading and Notetaking

This document provides guidance on how to effectively use bibliographies and reading lists for an International Business course. It recommends that students (1) read material from each section of the course to gain an overview of the key issues, (2) focus on introductions, conclusions, and summaries when initially reviewing readings rather than details, and (3) select interconnected items to build knowledge coherently rather than randomly on a given topic. The goal is to intelligently select a cross-section of relevant materials to enhance understanding of course concepts.

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International Business: Banner code: 37999

A brief guide to bibliographies/reading lists and how to use them

Bibliographies: how to use them:

Some of the International Business bibliographies will seem long, but these are a rigorous selection,
mainly of recent material. The number of books and articles that have been written on topics explored in
this module means that you should have no difficulty in getting something to read! You therefore need to
practice the skills of reading an intelligently selected cross-section of the material. The reading lists will
provide you with a sample of the material written on a particular topic. We encourage you to search for
material which is not listed on the reading lists. Consult the most recent issues of the academic journals.

How should you go about choosing what to read?

First, look at the THEME AND TOPIC TITLES:

You should read and consider some material for each section of the course.

Secondly, try to gain an OVERVIEW OF THE KEY ISSUES.

This should be available from the lectures, relevant past exam questions, and also from
the key texts suggested at the beginning of the module.

Thirdly, FILLET THE READINGS.

Many of the books and papers go into detail of how they undertook research and analysis
in more detail than you might need to know. Thus, always begin by reading the
abstract, the introductory/theoretical section, and the conclusion. Then try to
summarise the main ‘message’ of the paper/chapter in no more than a page of notes,
including any points of comparison (critical or otherwise) with other books/papers you
have read.

Fourthly, FOCUS your selection.

Aim to read items that are linked, so that you build-up your knowledge of the literature
in a coherent, rather than random way. For example, read several items on multinational
corporations together. If you have read a couple of theoretical papers on how large
organisations manipulate different locations, then find and read some specific case
studies. Then perhaps chose one area (Canada, China, South Korea, UK, US etc) to find
out how it has been affected by decisions made by large companies. If the work of a
particular author interests you, focus on that. Use search engines, for example, Google
Scholar, to explore the literature that is available.

John R. Bryson

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