Academic Skills and Studying with Confidence

ACADEMIC SKILLS
AND STUDYING
WITH CONFIDENCE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Trustable and untrustable source of information as an issue in academic skills....................3
What is referencing and why it is necessary?.........................................................................4
What is presentation? What are the good elements of presentation?.....................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills can be defined as those skills that includes presentation writing, comprehensive
reading, being proficient in critical thinking and reflective practice. A student in order to have
better grades must be engaged in having better academic skills, they must have a good control
over reading of essay and note taking. Present report will lay emphasis on the issues which are
hampering the skills of students. It will lay emphasis on trustable and un-trustable source of
information that can hinder result of the students. It will also lay focus on in value referencing
which can reduce potential for project made by students. Study will also lay keen emphasis on
presentation skills and what are the good element of presentation skill.
Trustable and untrustable source of information as an issue in academic skills
Information that is used under the academic skills should be reliable so that reliable results
generated are adequate. All the written sources of informations may not be reliable. It is possible
that the arguments raised are sound but that does not defines the reliability of information.
Several issues are to be considered before checking the reliability of information sources. A
reliable information provides supportive ideas as well as suggestions that improves the
understanding and the learning process. The information is considered a reliable and trustable if
it haves relevance to the topic for which information is required. It is important to check the date
of articles or the content and the name of author along with its qualifications. These things give
reliability to the information. Before trusting on any information check the author or publisher of
the article is posted over a reliable and authentic sources. (Jamshidi and et.al., 2016. )
Untrustable source of information can be defined as that data which is not reliable. If students
study from this data, then this can hinder or hamper their growth aspects. These type of data is
based on evidences basically researchers are involved in bringing out most reliable source of
information. If students are involved in studying from unreliable sources, then their grades might
get reduced. They must did not excel in their career if they study from Untrustable source. So
they must make sure to study from trustable source. This will help them in growing and
achieving their goals and objectives. (Sala and Gobet, 2017.)