Research Skills: Strategies for Effective Note Taking and Self-Improvement

Academic and Research
Skills

Table of Content
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
A). Understand the ongoing process that need to be assess their own strengths and weakness. 4
B). by using information, analysis the self-improvement that help for improving the own
capabilities and also monitor the progress. ................................................................................5
Explanation of “SMART” Objective .........................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
Noted key points of information from the variety of sources from active listing skills...........6
Notes taking skills from reading strategies................................................................................6
Paraphrased and summarized information..................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
Create a research plan ................................................................................................................8
Primary research processes.........................................................................................................9
Secondary research processes.....................................................................................................9
Draft of research work .............................................................................................................10
Theme: 1 Good education accessibility event or program in UK which always influenced
through decision-making in term of education destination.......................................................10
Data Interpretation....................................................................................................................11
Produced the final draft in professional standards. ..................................................................11
Discussion, conclusion and recommendation...........................................................................12
TASK 4-5.......................................................................................................................................12
Personal development Plan ......................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
Research skills mainly referred to the ability to search particular information or data in
proper manner. Afterwards, it may be locate, organize, extract and also evaluate the present
information which are relevant to the particular topic. Another way, it can be defined the
academic research which mainly specific different type of research in detailed as well as
investigation into multiple study areas. The Student may develop the research skills in order to
complete their academic work throughout their academic careers. More specifically when it
applying these skill among with support service when researching information. However, the
research skills are applicable that beyond the classroom, as advantage from the research for work
and leisure.
TASK 1
A). Understand the ongoing process that need to be assess their own strengths and weakness.
I have been performed the ongoing process within career enhancement but it will require to
consider important strength, weakness for enhancing entire growth opportunities. On the basis of
experience, I have identified the certain strength, weakness at the time of ongoing process.
Strength
 English language skill: it is important skill that always supports for me to interact with
other colleagues. In order to share their opinion, view point. I have a good English
language skill so that conveying view better anybody else (Quinlan, Babin and Griffin,
2019). Furthermore, I have analysed the evidence on the basis of positive feedback from
other people.
 Academic skills: it is another strongest skill which always helping me to quickly read or
understand the academic subjects. These skills helped me in research where I have
conducted to complete assignment. This is the reason when I have scored good marks
along with positive feedback.
 Personal skills: I have an ability to adapt any environment or culture. This quality has
been helping me to handle any critical situation or condition in proper manner. As my
personal experience, I had lived along with friends and several situation deals through
personal skills.

Weakness
 Poor enterprise management skills: I have a poor management skill so that faced many
issues related management. At certain level, I have been suffered to miss deadline
because I have not submitting assignment on time (Van Blankenstein and et.al., 2019).
 Poor analytical skills: it is the weakness when I am unable to analyse numerical as well as
statistical data in proper manner. Sometimes, I have failed to develop the statistical report
with several times in last year.
B). by using information, analysis the self-improvement that help for improving the own
capabilities and also monitor the progress.
When set targets for purpose of self-improvement so as require to develop SMART
criteria which emphasizes on the specific principles such as specific, achievable, time bound and
measurable.
For Example:-
 To deal with the individuals weakness by using an effective personal development plan.
 To measure the performance and efficiency on individual on behalf of personal skills.
 To achieve the desirable goal for adapting current business environment or culture.
 To increase the opportunities among individual’s through communication skills.
 To enhance the organizational, leadership capabilities within years.
These are considered as Smart objective which mainly used for self-improvement. It would be
require to adapt in the individual lives. Therefore, it can easily achieving desirable goal as well
as objective.
Explanation of “SMART” Objective
 Specific: According to this principle, it is mainly deals with the problem or issues by
using suitable strategy. In this way, individual has been eliminating the issue.
 Measurable: it can be developed in such way that can easily measuring the progress of
individual in term of particular skill and knowledge set (Mc Clelland and Cameron,
2019).
 Achievable: It may define the target and focus on the achievable objective that might
push individual into depression, anxiety. This type of thing is not going into favourable
manner.