Academic Skills for Business and Management MGBBT0ASB

This report discusses the importance of academic skills for success in academic writing. It identifies various academic skills and focuses on four skills that can lead to success in academic writing: time management, research skills, paraphrasing, and proofreading. The report also provides tips and techniques for improving these skills. Course code: MGBBT0ASB

Academic skills for
business and
management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Identifications of various academic skills..............................................................................1
Discussion of four academic skills can lead for success in academic writing.......................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic talents are the propensities, approaches, and procedures that allow pupils to
succeed in a classroom setting. Typically, they increase pupils' literacy and technical proficiency
in subjects like science and math. Critical thinking and reflective practise are supported by
fundamental academic skills like academic writing, presentation, and reference. Study techniques
and academic skills are other names for study skills, which are frequently thought of as an
efficient method of learning (Bhagra and Sharma, 2018). These comprise a variety of
transferable life skills that aid students in getting good results in the classroom. Since they truly
overlap with many other types of talents that are needed in many different facets of life,
academic skills are crucial. After you graduate, having great writing, time management, and
organisation abilities will simplify your daily life. The report will cover various academic skills
from which only four academic skills can help in lead for success in order to achieve academic
writing.
MAIN BODY
Identifications of various academic skills.
Students will be able to acquire skills in critical thinking, data synthesis, self-awareness
and reflection, oral and written communication, teamwork, using computer programmes,
occupational awareness, and networking, to name just a few academic and employability skills
(Aliu and Aigbavboa, 2021). There are various types of academic skills that will help individual
for attain success in academic writing such as,
 Research skills
 Referencing skills
 Proof Reading
 Note Taking
 Planning
 Structure and Academic Tone
 Time Management
 Paraphrasing
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Discussion of four academic skills can lead for success in academic writing.
Although some people think "academic" techniques and abilities exclusively pertain to the
academic realm, this is not totally true. People can gain from academic abilities in the workplace.
In fact, the ability to apply such abilities to a lifetime career is one of the major advantages of
learning them early on. Many of the advantages one gains in education can be applied to the
workplace. A few academic abilities and the advantages they have for the profession are listed
below.
Time management
Higher education students commonly experience difficulties with time management.
While it may not be possible to totally avoid troubles in life while you are a student, you can still
take a number of measures to decrease the potential difficulties they may cause. This can be
accomplished through proper prioritisation and time management initiatives. This chapter
teaches how to identify your personal time management style and delves deeply into what time
management is all about. Students will learn how to create a semester plan, a weekly plan, a
daily plan, and how to do a time audit of their lives (Stek, 2022). To help students stay on track
to finish their university degree on schedule, individuals will then learn how to split work into
manageable time spans and receive guidance from three tried-and-true time management
approaches. While effective time management is associated with better academic performance
and decreased levels of anxiety in students, many of them find it difficult to integrate their daily
lives with their academics. The productivity and efficiency will rise if people learn effective time
management techniques. Prioritizing individual objectives while writing the thesis is the secret to
time management. When people are able to complete more things in less time, they have more
time for themselves, are more productive, less stressed, and have more time to spend with those
who are important to them. It ensures that students are prepared, organised, and focused so they
can manage their daily lives and submit their academic tasks on time. Although it can boost
performance, this is a skill that pupils must develop. Students need to adopt new habits if they
want to build efficient time management skills.
Research skills
Writers need to have great research skills in order to gather material and create an outline
for any writing project, whether it be for academic or artistic goals. (Anderson, Weimer and
Fuhs, 2020). People with research abilities are able to identify problems, gather resources for
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information that can help solve them, evaluate the usefulness and application of these resources,
and then come up with a practical solution. It may be difficult to know where to start while
conducting research, but there is nothing wrong with performing a basic online search to get
started (Loureiro and Silva, 2019). Online resources like Google and Wikipedia, while not
always correct, are a great method to gain a general understanding of a topic because they
frequently include a basic overview along with a brief history and any key points. Because so
many websites don't verify the accuracy of their material, anyone can generally say whatever
they want on the internet. This suggests that there are a lot of dubious sources out there, along
with those that are outright fraudulent. Making sure that whatever you learn from research study
has numerous sources that can witness to its veracity is the simplest way to avoid this. Instead of
depending just on one website, ensure that the information is consistent across at least two
separate sources. Most likely, students will recall the arduous and time-consuming essays that
had to compose. Or perhaps one can think about challenging school projects. Whatever the case,
in order to succeed, one will need to put a lot of effort into each of these duties. Finding reliable
sources, reading and interpreting data, identifying the questions that need to discover the answers
to, and knowing where to look for those answers are all components of good research. It might
need to look at development procedures and rules in order to effectively design a product.
Research is required to analyse their position in the market. However, this expertise is most
useful in the fields of journalism and medicine.
Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing is a powerful strategy in academic writing for replicating, summarising, or
expanding on the ideas of another author while also giving their own argument or insight
credence (Salaan, 2018). Effective academic writing requires effective paraphrasing, whereas
inadequate paraphrasing might result in unintentional plagiarism. It's important to paraphrase
since it shows that the writer understood the source information well enough to reword it.
Furthermore, it provides a strong replacement for the infrequently used direct quotations. 1.
Original—the paraphrases should be written in their own words rather than using the sentence
structure, phrasing, or words from the source. 2. Accurate - The ideas, tones, and emphasis of
each source must be faithfully portrayed in the paraphrases. A paraphrase's purpose is to convey
the original message's meaning while proving that the author has understood it well enough to
restate it. The paraphrasing should let the reader to understand the author's perspective on the
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subject. (Evans and Kerridge, 2021). One should provide enough time when they write their final
draught for editing and proofreading. While editing tactics focus on making the text more
accessible by assessing clarity, style, and citations, proofreading approaches focus on eradicating
errors and flaws in grammar, punctuation, spelling, and formatting. Students can avoid
plagiarism by accurately paraphrasing and citing sources. Paraphrasing enables students to share
and ethically incorporate ideas from other sources into their work without directly duplicating
words from a source.
Proof reading
The best way to convey the research's ideas and findings is through writing. If the study
paper has several spelling, punctuation, and grammar mistakes, its quality will suffer. The
research's credibility is damaged by these mistakes. Proofreading is crucial because mistakes in
written works can lead to misunderstandings and harm to the author's reputation if the intent and
meaning of the written word are altered. Always keep in mind that a well-written paper might
serve as a stepping stone to your success. Read the essay out loud. Sometimes the method of
writing sounds different from the way it appears on paper. Make a list of the mistakes that
frequently commit and maintain a lookout for them. Reverse the text and read it. Editing and
proofreading are essential steps in the writing process. They assist in making their writing more
effective and their ideas more comprehensible as a whole (Lovett, Harrison and Armstrong,
2022). Students and authors frequently mistakenly believe that they are identical, although there
are clear distinctions between the two. While editing techniques focus on improving readability
by assessing clarity, style, and citations, proofreading procedures focus on eradicating errors and
flaws in grammar, punctuation, spelling, and formatting. The final phase in the writing process,
proofreading, ensures that there are no typos or other problems before the material is shared. As
writers write and revise, keep in mind that editing may take place, but proofreading concentrates
more on sentence-level details as the process comes to a close. Spelling mistakes, typos,
improper or missing punctuation, in other words, anything that doesn't look or sound right, are
what individual are looking for in this situation.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that the academic writing is important for individual
and there are various skills which are essential in order to achieve success in their academic
writing. decent research using a third-person perspective. The issue or topic is clearly in focus.
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succinct writing with precise word choice. Writing for academic purposes requires the use of
professional, acceptable language that is not arrogant. The expertise and background of the
audience are two extremely crucial factors to take into account. One must be able to cite reliable
sources to support their ideas.
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REFERENCES
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