Developing Academic Skills

This report focuses on developing academic skills such as skill appraisal, reflective practice and writing, and oral presentation skills. It discusses the importance of time management, the features and styles of academic writing, the concept of reflective practice and writing, and the skills required for oral presentations.

Developing Academic Skills (2 personal portfolio)
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Academic skills play crucial role in the human life as it helps in developing the skills and
make them capable to become efficient learners (Bickens, Bittman and Connor, 2013). These
skills enhance the inner abilities of individuals and make ready for future activities and actions.
The knowledge acquired in academic career helps in improving the written and oral
communication skills of people and make them capable to handle the future situations. The
report is based on the developing the academic skills of individuals which help in future
activities and actions. The topics covered in the report are skill appraisal, reflective practice and
writing, and oral presentation skills.
MAIN BODY
With regards to the academic examination it gets critical to build up the time the board
aptitudes to pick up information and become proficient (Brattseva and Kovalev, 2015). The
correct and powerful administration if time helps the understudies in improving their method of
contemplating. In the event that individual need to get coordinated and feel spurred to finish their
work all the more adequately and proficiently on time then they should attempt to make an ideal
schedule for their scholarly investigation.
Skill appraisal, feature and styles of academic writing
The skills in academic helps in acquiring the desire job role and also help in
understanding the written facts and figures. With the increasing importance of the education the
writing has become one of the most important and necessary skills. The academic writing helps
the people in putting their viewpoints and ideas in correct and appropriate manner. It is beyond
the idea of writing where it provides a great experience to the writers. Academic writing allows
people to formulate their opinions and helps in better understanding of the topics. These skills
are important as they help in future employment and job opportunities. The various manners by
which scholarly composing builds up one's abilities are numerous and may be utilized in
regions outside the setting of documentation and composing. Academic composing likewise
includes the cycle of altering, and altering on their lonesome has become a
profession. Plenty of occupation profiles particularly in logical altering organizations
require specialized composition and altering abilities which are created through academic
composition. Academic composing is, thusly, a cycle that has experimentation, learning, and
innovativeness. Its significance additionally lies endlessly outside of creating expertly
composed material. Through scholastic composing understudies create aptitudes which
will be applied to their everyday lives and even their future vocations, it can assist them
with ensuring about positions and eventually lead them towards professions. Despite the
very fact that composing isn't an expertise that each one positions require, it alright could
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also be seen that plenty of the training during the time spent composing are often utilized
in a good range of occupations.
Features of academic writing are as follow-
Complexity- The written skills are more complex and difficult in comparison to
spoken skills. Moreover the long words and sentences take place in written academic skills
and the chances of grammatical errors take place. One need to consider all the related
factors for effective written skills (Harris and Ashton, 2011).
Formality- The academic writing is consider as formal writing where focus is to
avoid the colloquial words.
Precision- It is important to attract the related and precise facts and figures related to
the writing context.
Style of Academic writing
Academic writing is based performed in four styles which are as follow-
Descriptive writing style- It is one of the simplest style who’s main focus is to provide
true facts and information.
Analytical writing style- This style is used in university level text as in this the facts and
figures need to be re-evaluated and re-organized to provide desire results.
Persuasive writing style- It is a type of analytical skill where further steps is taken that is
with the re-organization and re-evaluation of facts and data the addition view points of the writer
been described.
Critical writing style- It is one of the common writing skill which is based on the research
which is advanced undergraduate writing skills and it has features of persuasive writing.
Reflective Practice and Writing
Reflective practice is simply term as the reflection of what person is thinking and doing
at particular point of time (Shapiro, 2011). It is connected to the learning from experience and
helps in determining the next step which individuals may take in their life. Reflective writing
includes explanation of the various events where it is difficult and more challenging then the
academic writing. In reflective writing people usually share their experience and learning
whiling conducting various research and assignment. Basically it is a practice based experience
which one come to produce from their learning. The key features of the reflective writing is that
it helps in expressing the feelings and thinking of individuals which contributes in enhancing
their personality. The reflective practice would be as shared activity where it is performed with
group of people where one share their experience and learning from the particular topic. Where
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as some time it becomes difficult to share the reflective practice in the busy workplace as other
people are quite busy in their own work that they didn’t have time to pay attention to other
persons findings and experiences. The benefits of reflective writing is that it helps in taking the
informed actions where one can explain and justify their learning. Moreover it helps in
developing the rational practice where people would be able to discuss their difficulties and can
find solution to their problems. Reflective writing includes contemplating an encounter and
attempting to "understand" and gain from it. While it'd include an outline of the experience,
a portrayal alone doesn't establish intelligent composition. Reflective writing must likewise
incorporate a translation and investigation of the experience. The essayist will consider what
was significant from the experience, why it happened, what feelings it delivered,
how it'd have gone in an unexpected way, what was acknowledged from the experience, and
the way that learning are often applied afterward . Participating in intelligent composing
presents an open door for profound and basic idea, which may cause new bits of data from
your encounters.
Oral Presentation Skills
Oral presentation skills are a typical necessity in numerous courses. they could be
short or long, incorporate slides or other visual guides, and be done exclusively or during
a gathering (Parrish and Johnson, 2010). In your postgraduate examinations, you'll have the
occasion to convey talks, classes and instructional exercises too, and therefore the more
practice you've got at any of those , the simpler it gets. Arranging and organizing an oral
introduction is just like the way toward composing an exposition, apart from you ought
to remember of a live crowd and utilize communicated in language instead of composed.
Notwithstanding, the last planning and introduction contrast essentially from altering and
cleaning a paper. Introduction or presentation subjects are normally booked right off the
bat within the semester. You would possibly have the choice to select your theme or
one could be assigned to you. On the off chance that you simply can pick a topic , select the
one that you have a couple of inquiries concerning which intrigues you the foremost . Your
introduction could be given as a private or as a feature of a gathering. In certain courses the
oral introduction could be the rationale for a composed task. Ask your coach for subtleties.
There could be explicit prerequisites you'll got to meet and these are normally definite in
your course diagram or study direct. Have an unmistakable, coordinated structure for your
oral introduction. Organizing a discussion is that the same as composing a piece of
writing or a report; it requires a presentation, body and end. Like a piece of writing , these
segments of your discussion got to fit together and be connected obviously. An ineffectively
organized talk will befuddle and disappoint a crowd of individuals (Turner and et.al., 2011).
Have an unmistakable, coordinated structure for your oral introduction. Organizing a
discussion is that the same as composing a piece of writing or a report; it requires a
presentation, body and end. Like a piece of writing , these segments of your discussion got
to fit together and be connected obviously. An ineffectively organized talk will befuddle and
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disappoint a crowd of people Remain during a fair position, confronting the gang ,feet
separated - this causes you to look certain. Don't slump, mix about or incline toward the
furnishings. Take a full breath and trust that the gathering will center their consideration on
you before you start to speak . Greet the gang and present yourself, no matter whether or not
they definitely know you. Your crowd will respond energetically and on the off chance that
you simply can't feel loosened up you'll at any rate create the impression that way.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it has been concluded that academic skills assume significant
part in the life as it helps in improving the future profession objective. The aptitudes which
are created in the scholastic periods helps in the expert work as well. Academic skills
assume significant function in the life of understudies which help them in turning out to be
more proficient and compelling students . It offer certainty to the understudies to build up
their aptitudes which helps in basic reasoning and driving accomplishment in profession.
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REFERENCES
Book & Journals
Bickens, S., Bittman, F. and Connor, D.J., 2013. Developing academic skills through multigenre
autobiography. English Journal, pp.43-50.
Brattseva, E.F. and Kovalev, P., 2015. The power of case study method in developing academic
skills in teaching Business English (time to play). Российский гуманитарный
журнал. 4(3). pp.234-242.
Harris, A.J. and Ashton, J.L., 2011. Embedding and integrating language and academic skills:
An innovative approach.
Shapiro, E.S., 2011. Academic skills problems: Direct assessment and intervention. Guilford
Press.
Parrish, B. and Johnson, K., 2010. Promoting learner transitions to postsecondary education and
work: Developing academic readiness skills from the beginning. Washington DC: Center
for Applied Linguistics. Retrieved from www. cal.
org/caelanetwork/resources/transitions. Html. 5(26). p.12.
Turner, K. and et.al., 2011. Essential academic skills. Oxford University Press.
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