The Book

Skill Sheets is a practical resource for understanding and developing core skills that all university students need to obtain. In a very concise manner, this book shows how these skills are related and how one can develop and work with many skills simultaneously. With these skills to hand, students are able to maintain a better focus on the content of their course. Developed and at RSM Erasmus University, it has been thoroughly tested over many years by both students and professors, and improved accordingly.

Author

Rob van Tulder, Professor of International Business-Society Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam/Rotterdam School of Management. He holds a PhD degree (cum laude) in social sciences from the University of Amsterdam. Published in particular on the following topics: European Business, Multinationals, high-tech industries, Corporate Social Responsibility, the global car industry, issues of standardisation, network strategies, smaller industrial countries (welfare states) and European Community/Union policies.

How to purchase

The book – Skill Sheets – An Integrated Approach to Research, Study and Management - (2018, ISBN 9789043033503) can be ordered directly online by clicking one of the following links depending your country of origin:

Dutch Dutch buyers

International buyers International buyers

Powerful Writing

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Powerful writing critically depends on your ability to match the content and style of the message with the intended audience and the occasion. Choosing an appropriate format for your writing therefore requires that you have a good understanding of what you (can) aim at in relation to the particular strengths and weaknesses of the format.

Powerful writing requires that you be prepared to go through the reflective cycle of powerful writing, and that you always take into account the following four phases:

  1. Inventory: brainstorming about the right form of your texts
  2. Structure: deciding which parts of your writing are well enough for your report
  3. Formulating the right sentences and make your argumentation complete
  4. Editing of all parts of your written material

'An Integrated Approach to Research, Study and Management'