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PAPER OUTLINE
CONTENTS
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The aim of the paper is stated in the prescription published by the New Zealand
Qualifications Authority as follows:
The topics in this course are described in the NZQA course prescription. The topics are as
follows:
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The details of each topic together with the Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria
are given in Appendix 1.
You should refer back to the Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria while working
through the course in order to remind yourself of what you should be learning and how
your current task fits with the prescription.
Theory classes are enhanced with interactive participation required of all students in
lecture classes. Students are expected to participate in case discussions relating to the
topics prescribed.
Case study, Group discussion, and some soft wares might be used as teaching aid.
Students are encouraged to do their own research. Newspapers, Electronic media and
Magazines provide some excellent and topical material. Research from the internet is also
a useful source of information.
4: Learning Outcomes:
• Be able to explain and identify the risks of international trade for participators.
• Be able to apply the common rules and standards regarding their use.
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7.5 weeks with 2 lectures each week, minimum of 60 hours class contact.
You are expected to spend 130 hours on private study for this paper. So, for
every one hour of class contact you are expected to devote 2-3 hours of private
study. This time reflects the need for reading, lesson summaries, assignments,
projects and research. This subject is taught on the basis that you are fulfilling
this requirement.
Class Timetable
This timetable is only valid for the first FOUR weeks
Day Time
Wednesday 9:00 am to 12:00 pm (3
hours)
Thursday 12:00 pm– 15:00 pm (3
hours)
Total 6 hours / week
davidganglin@gmail.com
Please wait for the further notice for the rest three and a half week’s lecture.
You are required to attend at least 80% of lectures. It will be extremely difficult for you
to make up for lost time if you do not attend the lectures. If you are unable to attend any
lectures for any reasons, you should advise the lecturer or the office secretary in advance.
6: LECTURERS:
David LIN
Email: davidganglin@gmail.com
Email is the best contact method for making appointment and asking questions.
You are encouraged to talk to lecturers about any matters relating to the course, and
arrange an appointment if necessary.
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7: Timetable:
Note:
1. Some variations may occur to this timetable due to class availability etc.
2. The venue for the final exam will be advised by notice prior to exam week
Week Date
Topic Lecture Topics Assignment
/Lecture
17/10
The benefits of international trade
W1/L1 1
Comparative Advantage
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How to pass
¾ To pass this course you must attain at least 50% when adding all the assessments
marks together
¾ To pass this course you must attend at least 80% of lectures. Less than 80%
attendance will be considered ‘failed’ in this course. Good performances in the
lectures will be considered in the overall assessments.
8: RESOURCES:
Prescribed textbooks
Burridge, K. & Hart, P. Principles of banking. Longman Paul. Latest edition
Uniform customs and practice for documentary credits. (Booklet published by the
International Chambers of Commerce.) Latest edition.
Edwards, R. & Weston, R. International trade and finance - a guide to the instruments
and techniques of Australian exports. The Law Book Co., Sydney. Latest edition.
New Zealand exporter and importer handbook. Braynart Group. Latest edition.
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Most tests will be closed or open book based, depending on the content and type of test.
Please take note of the Kingsland Institute of New Zealand’s policy on plagiarism.
Plagiarism means using someone else’s work without proper acknowledgment of that
work, or passing off someone else’s work as yours. The Institute views plagiarism with
much concern and significant penalties are imposed such as an automatic failing grade
for the paper in question. Also, please note that you can find numerous places both in
texts as well as WebCT for guidelines on how to reference other writers.
The following extract on plagiarism is taken from the Kingsland Institute of New
Zealand Calendar.
9.3: Misconduct
Any candidate who is found guilt of any dishonest practice in connection with and
examination or any breach of the rules dealing with the conduct of examinations shall
be liable to the penalties hereinafter provided. If the Academic Board finds a charge
proved it may disqualify the candidate from sitting examinations for such periods as it
thinks fit, if the candidate has been credited with a pass in the examination in respect of
which the charge arose, cancel such credit.
Advice
Do not give your works to another colleague in the class to read. If that
person copies parts of your text into his or her assignment, both will receive
‘0’
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Attend every class if at all possible. There is little scope if any to make up for lost time.
Be there at the scheduled start time of the class. The most important part of every class
is the beginning. Lateness interrupts the class and reduces your learning opportunity.
Make sure you fully understand the course and assessment timetable. That timetable
will be closely followed. You must be able to use the time to understand what topics are
being studied at what stage and when you need to undertake or complete assessments.
Make sure you are fully prepared for each class. Prior to each class you are expected to
have completed the learning exercises from the previous week, and to have read the
relevant parts of the textbooks.
Prepare for the tests and assessments well in advance of the specified date.
All assignments must be submitted in hard copy at the hand in dates and times
advised. See also section on ‘Individual Work – Plagiarism.’
Information on referencing is attached at the end of this outline.
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You will have 20 minutes to review your assessment. During that time if you
have any queries or want your grade to be reconsidered, then you need to write
your reasons down, being as specific as possible. Your lecturer will then
reconsider the grade and return your assessment. A grade may be unchanged,
raised or lowered during reconsideration.
Once a student removes his/her script from the reconsideration process, he/she
loses any right of reconsideration/appeal.
Non-attendance at any of these “return of script” sessions excludes any rights
of reconsideration.
If attendance at “return of script” sessions is not possible, it is the student’s
responsibility to advise the lecturer concerned ahead of the specified session in
order to make alternative arrangements. It is the student’s responsibility to
collect their own course assessment work. Requests made after the “return of
script” session will not be considered.
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Time Management
Every effort is made by lecturers to arrange assessments to ensure students
have a fair workload. However, because a specific amount of learning must
take place before each assessment, there are times when assignments /
assessments are due / sat on closely grouped dates.
It is the student’s responsibility to plan ahead so that assessments can be
submitted on time.
Assessment
Students who work are urged to inform their employers in writing of the
examination dates as soon as they are made available. It is the student’s
responsibility to check these. Examinations not attended will score zero, unless
on the grounds of illness or exceptional circumstances. A medical certificate will
be required.
Late Work
Late work presented for assessment will have marks deducted.
All assignments must be handed to your lecturer within the first 10
minutes of the start of the class of which they are due. After this deadline
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10% will be deducted for each day or part there of when an assignment is
late.
For example, if the assignment is worth 25 marks and it is handed in a day late
and the assignment scored 15 marks out of 25, then 2.5 marks will be deducted
and the student will receive 12.5 out of 25.
Check when the assignment is due in and have before the due
date.
Mobile Phones
These should be turned off or diverted when you are in class. Phone calls and
text-messaging will not be tolerated. You may be asked to leave the room if
these standards are ignored.
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Acknowledging Sources
The APA style of referencing uses in-line acknowledgement of sources rather than
footnotes or endnotes. This means that sources need to be acknowledged in the ways
listed below.
1. How to acknowledge an idea which you have expressed in your own words
Sometimes someone else's ideas, concepts or figures, but not that person's exact words
may be included in your work. This is called citing (as opposed to quoting, when you
use someone's exact words). In this situation, the source must be acknowledged by
putting the author's last name and the date when the work was published in brackets at
the end of the sentence.
Management consultants usually see the formulation of a strategic plan as an essential
step for all organisations (McKendrey, 1992).
If the author's own words are being used, put the quotation in quotation marks and
include a page number at the end of the reference.
For many New Zealanders, this country is no longer an agricultural nation. New
Zealand has grown, diversified and bounced back again, determined never again to be
reliant on a single industry and market. "We have come of age, internationally"
(Anderson, 1992, p. 64).
NB When the quotation ends a sentence, the full stop comes after the information in
brackets.
If a direct quotation which is longer than two sentences is being used, the quote should
be indented five spaces and quotation marks omitted. The reference should be
acknowledged in the same way as the shorter quotation above.
Within management theory there have been many changes and developments. One
researcher - Sharryn Williams - has identified a key factor for management sources:
communication.
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Such a perspective has support from many other theorists in the area...
If you wish to use a quotation or cite an idea which is quoted or cited by another author,
then both sources should be acknowledged in the text as follows:
Although much has been written about the negative Impact of stress, "nevertheless,
stress can contribute to performance" (Ward, 1968, p. 33 cited in Bowling, 1991, p. 16).
Although many authors have emphasised the way in which stress can impact negatively
on performance, Ward (1968, cited in Bowling, 1991) emphasises its positive aspects.
The Reference list, at the end of the assignment, would list only Bowling, not Ward.
5. How to reference a source if you have already used the author's name in the
sentence
• Researchers in the field (Magnall, 1984; Crews, 1992) indicate that ...
• He stated that "the management cycle has four key elements" (Magnall, 1984, p. 16)
but did not rank those four factors.
If referring to two or more works by the same author, both published in the same year,
the first has an "a" after the date, the second has a "b" and so on:
In her next study of the problem (Lenart, 1991b), she considered other factors.
The author's name would then appear twice (or more often) in the references section at
the end of the paper, with the appropriate small letter beside the date.
If a work has three or more authors, all names should be listed in the first citation, but
et al. (meaning "and others") may be used in subsequent citations:
First citation Coles, Emerson & Ormsby (1992) found that ...
Subsequent citations Coles et al. (1992) also found ...
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A reference list is a list of the full bibliographical details of all the material quoted or
cited in your assignment. Every assignment written must have a reference list. It should
be stated on a new page and be headed "References".
In listing the references at the end of the document, one style guide should be followed
consistently. We recommend that you use the following format, taken from the
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) (4th ed.).
All items must be listed in alphabetical order, according to the surname of the first
author.
Put the author's surname first, spelled out in full, with initials only for first and second
names. Give the date of publication in brackets. Next comes the title, city of publication
and publisher. Note that on the reference page only the first letter of the first word of
the title and subtitle is capitalised. Title and subtitle should be underlined or italicised.
Either is acceptable. The title is followed by a full stop. A colon (:) separates the place
of publication from the publisher's name.
The following list gives examples of the most commonly used types of referencing
using this referencing style.
' The 4th edition of the APA Publication Manual distinguishes between copy manuscripts (i.e. those
prepared for publication) and final manuscripts which will not be typeset, and the referencing
conventions for the two types of manuscripts differ. Student assignments and theses are produced in
final copy form. The conventions presented in this chapter therefore relate to final manuscripts. If
you are preparing manuscripts for publication in an APA journal, you will need to consult the APA
Manual. See pp. 331-33 of the APA Manual (1995). For a copy manuscript, the first line of each
entry is indented and subsequent lines are placed flush against the margin.
a. Single author
Sligo, F. (1991). Organisational behaviour: Case studies and commentaries.
Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
c. Two authors
Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E.B. (1979). The elements of style (3rd ed.). New York:
Macmillan.
d. Corporate author
American Psychological Association. ( 1983). Publication manual of the American
Psychological Association. (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
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Periodicals are anything that is published on a regular basis - magazines, journals and
newspapers. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between journals and magazines,
but here is a general rule of thumb: if the articles in the periodical have a reference
section (i.e. if they list their sources in some academically conventional way) then it
can be regarded as a journal; if they do not have a reference section, then treat it as a
magazine.
Titles of periodicals should be quoted in full and italicised (or underlined) and followed
by volume numbers, italicised, and page numbers, not italicised. Titles of articles
should not be italicised, underlined or placed in inverted commas.
c. Magazine Article
Emerson, A-M. (1991, December 10~17). Bald is beautiful. The Listener, p. 16.
If you cite articles or excerpts from books which are reprinted in Study Guides, refer to
the article or book directly (your Study Guide should contain full bibliographical
information!).
If the material being cited is not part of a reprinted article or book, it should be
referenced as follows:
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Emerston, L. (2000). On-line writing and learning laboratory. Retrieved January 20,
2000 from the World Wide Web: http://owll.massey.ac.nz
Note: If you cannot find an author, use the corporate author if one is available.
12. Where to find information about referencing materials not mentioned here?
For details on how to format other, more unusual material, (e.g. proceedings of
meetings and symposia, films, TV programmes, individual interviews) refer to the
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, Edition 4, also referred
to as the APA Style Manual
As mentioned above, a reference list should contain only the material you have cited in
your text. If other material as background reading has been used it may be included in a
new list called the Bibliography. Format material in exactly the same way as in the
reference section.
13 (a) References
Ary, D., Jacobs, L. C., & Razavieh, A. (Eds.). (1979). Introduction to research in
education. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
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Flower, L. (1985). Problem solving strategies for writing (2nd ed.). New York:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.
13 (b) Bibliography
Bate, D., & Sharpe, P. (1990). Student writer's handbook. London: Harem & Brace
Jovanovich Inc.
Clancy, J., & Ballard, B. (1981). Essay writing for students. Melbourne: Longman.
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