Academic Skills and Studying with Confidence - Support Services at Waltham International College

Academic skills and
studying with confidence

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The skills that facilitates an individual in providing benefits to the academic pursuits such
as presentation, report writing as well as research. Such kinds of skills help a person in
improving the approach of learning which not only increase the level of confidence but also
facilitates in taking participation within the different non-curricular as well as curricular
activities. These skills consist of critical thinking, academic integrity, referencing, academic
writing and many others. In context to the academic performance, the level of confidence is
considered as a stronger predictor of success in comparison to the self-esteem (Chuang and et.al.,
2018). The individuals that are holding greater achievements of the academy are tending to feel
more confident. In this portfolio, different support services are going to be discussed that will
facilitate a person at its academic level or in future employment along with the explanation of
methods in which such services will assist an individual.
MAIN BODY
Those activities that are given to or on behalf of a person within the areas of self-
development and assistance through which an individual can become an effective person are
called Support services. There are different support services that are provided by Waltham
International College to its students and some of these support services are described as follows
along with their significance as well as use:
 Library Resources: At Waltham International College, this kind of support service is
offered to the students having access to a wide number of books, journal articles as well
as other specialist materials. These resources are essentially required by the students in
order to complete their studies in an effective manner. The college has its own library that
offers all texts along with further readings as well as latest editions of all the text books
that belong to basic category. Students of the respective college can borrow wide variety
of books from the library of the college for a specific period of time (Cottrell, 2020). The
local libraries are only a little steps away from the college and t the institution also
facilitates the students in order to become a member of another better and effective
libraries within London for forward reference. By issuing the books from the library, the
students of Waltham International College can take assistance through taking the notes of