Hi Guys, as the majority of our undergraduates find it very frustrating to create their references in APA or MLA. SourceAid Citation Builder helps to build either APA or MLA styles. I personally think that we should promote this to our undergrads so that they don’t wate their time studying how to create their reference list in APA or MLA. What do you guys think? Your opinions are welcome. Cuiying

Dear Help Desk staff,

Please pass Alison McIntyre’s following message onto ECON224 students.
Thanks,
Cuiying

Econ 224 – Last minute marking
by Alison McIntyre – Friday, 26 September 2008, 01:14 PM

I will be available on Monday 29th September 9.00 am to 1.00pm to meet with Econ 224 students who have not yet completed the InformEd programme and who would like some one-on-one assistance to do so. The InformEd programme is compulsory for your Econ 224 essay so even if you havn’t made a start I urge you to do so.

You may submit assignments 1, 2 and 3 without waiting for them to be marked as there will be no marking done over the weekend. Assignments will be marked on Monday morning. You will be expected to resubmit assignments until you meet the required standard before 5.00pm on Monday 29th September. Everything you need to know to complete the assignments is in the online tutorials which of course will be available 24/7 including the weekend. I will be available on Monday morning to give you feedback on your assignments, to give you direction as to what you will need to do to pass and to help you with the skills required to complete the assignments.

If you would like to arrange a one on one meeting please email me suggesting your prefered time between 9.00 and 1.00pm. Preference will be given to students who have requested a meeting on a first come first served basis.

Alison McIntyre alison.mcintyre@canterbury.ac.nz

InformEd Coordinator

Datastream Advance has been installed in the PCs in AV area. If any student asks for it, please direct him/her to the right pc and log onto the pc for the student with librc39 account. Cuiying

Market Information Digest is installed on the PCs in AV Collection. Students can book the computers via Library AV Equipment bookings page

Cuiying

MGMT 212 students have got a market research assignment. This is a very difficult assignment as there is no right or wrong answer to the questions.

The assignment requirs students to use secondary data to:
1) Estimate the annual dollar sales history for the NZ pizza market since 2004, as well as the annual dollar sales history for the New Zealand fast-food industry
2) Identify the major competitors (i.e., dollar sales, market share, etc) both direct and indirect to Dominos.

They can use the following for this assignment. 1) Factiva & Newztext for journal articles by entering the following search words domino and pizza* and (sale* or trade*) and zealand 2) Factiva Companies/Markets for Domino company and its competitors’ data. 3) New Zealand time series database, key Statistics and Statistics New Zealand for industry trade data.

Feel free to contact Cuiying Mu (ext. 3054) or Alison McIntyre (ext. 8834).
Cuiying

Market Information Digest by A.C. Nielsen N.Z. Ltd. is installed on the Teacher’s PC in the Den. Students need to borrow the disk (Call No. CD-ROM 04/6) from Lending Desk to browse the data.