Developing Academic Skills: Time Management, Resources and Reflection, Literature Searching, Note Taking and Evaluating

This article discusses developing academic skills such as time management, resources and reflection, literature searching, note taking and evaluating. It covers topics such as time management, online studying, concentration methods, academic writing and referencing, plagiarism and academic integrity.

Developing Academic Skills

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS..............................................................................................................2
TASK ONE: Time management......................................................................................................3
(A)...............................................................................................................................................3
(B)...............................................................................................................................................5
TASK TWO: Resources and Reflection..........................................................................................6
(A)...............................................................................................................................................6
(B)...............................................................................................................................................7
TASK THREE: literature searching, note taking and evaluating....................................................8
(A)...............................................................................................................................................8
TASK FOUR: Plagiarism and referencing....................................................................................10
A. Explanation of plagiarism and academic integrity...............................................................10
B. Producing 'at a glance' leaflet giving examples and explanation to produce a reference list
using AU Harvard referencing with including examples..........................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

TASK ONE: Time management
(A)
Time management- time management plays an important role in daily routine life so, that one
can organize things in order to achieve success. It is the systematic process of planning how to
classify daily routine time between various activities. An effective time management skill
enables students, individual and professionals to work smarter so that they can do their work in
less time. Placing any task in an effective way helps to manager time more positively and keep
focused on achievement and targets (Balistreri, Albertine and Bearer, 2021). This helps
individual to prioritize projects and activities so that one can have idea about time schedules or
availability of time in order to complete every task.
Time table
time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
6.00
am
Wake up
early
Wake up
early
Wake up early Waking up Waking
up
Wake up
7.00
am to
8.00
am
Do
exercise,
breakfast
and
bathing
Light
exercise
Zumba class Meditation,
snacks
time
Yoga
class
Morning
walk
Wake up
10.00
am
Attend
online
coaching
classes for
writing
skills
Attend
online
classes
Attend online
classes
Attend
online
workshop
Read
English
newspaper
to
improve
English
Study
topics for
exam
preparation
Breakfast
time
11.00
am
Listening
music
Study
time
Learn cooking Cover the
topic
which is
remaining
Listen to
songs
Read
articles
related to
subject
Reading
books
12.00 Study Read Practice Work on Improve

am subjects
which
have
remained
remaining
topics of
subject
mathematics problem
solving
methods in
maths
painting
skills
1.30
pm
lunch time Lunch Lunch time Lunch Lunch
time with
class
mates
Lunch
3.00
pm
Read
letters
Read
journals
Learn method
of
communication
skills
Study time Watch TV Watch
series
Rest time
4.00
pm
Tea and
snacks
time
Tea time
Read
magazines
Rest time Snacks
time
Snacks
with
family
Watch
movie
with
cousins
5.30
pm
Focus on
weak
subject
Snacks
time
Read
newspaper
Doing
maths
Study
science
subject
Study
online
related to
topics
Outing
with
friends
6.00
pm
meditation Play
cards
with
friends
Guitar class Dance
class
Play
outdoor
games
Light
exercise
Meditation
7.00
pm
Review
the study
done
throughout
the day
Learn
cooking
Making
necessary
corrections in
learning
Re-reading
books
Evening
walk
playing
badminton
with
friends
Dinner
with
family
8.30
pm-
Dinner
time,
Evening
walk and
Dinner Dinner Dinner
with
Dinner
time
Playing
cards with

9.30pm walking dinner cousins family
10.00-
11.00
pm
Sleeping
time
Sleeping
time
Sleeping time Sleeping
time
Sleeping
time
Sleeping
time
Sleeping
time
(B)
Time management is helpful to manage and organise available time effectively in order
to complete projects and tasks (Fleming and Kowalsky, 2021). This is the best way to manage
the way of work with the help of methods like performing, evaluating and planning the
effectiveness of professional and personal projects.
Eisenhower principle- This is the most popular method to prioritize tasks and manager time to
concentrate on projects which is important. With the help of time table, I have prioritized my
important work in order to focus on long term goals. I have planned other activities so that they I
can learn new things and improve my knowledge and skills. I have set my aside time each day to
review my important and remaining work in order to increase self-knowledge to arrange time
efficiently.
Gibbs reflection is one of the most important model to give structure to learning from
work experience. This provides a detailed information about how to examine experience and
how to plan things by evaluating what went well or didn’t go well.
With this model, I decided to manage and divide my time so that I can study on time and
manage my learning and personal life at the same time.
I have good experience about maintaining time table because this has given me so much
time for my friends and family too. I am feeling grateful that along with studies, now I can learn
different skills such as communication skills, writing skills and others.
By evaluating this method, everything went well such as now I can peacefully manage my
yoga classes, guitar class and other classes. But I need to focus on other skills too so that it can
help me in my examination. Although, this was difficult task for me, it took so much efforts and
time to make my time table.
Any person can manage their time if they have good time management skills and self-
confidence. I am sure that people who follow their time table perfectly, they can easily achieve
success and complete their task on time. I think the reason that this method work well was

because I have divided my time according to self-identified strengths and weaknesses. I think
being aware about prioritizing things in the future will be helpful in managing time in order to
make life’s important decisions.
I am sure that there is not left to be added in my time table, I will continue to plan things on
the basis of this method by keeping trach on my strengths and weaknesses.
TASK TWO: Resources and Reflection
(A)
During this module, there various resources that I have used in order to complete my task and
achieve academic and personal targets:
1. online studying – balancing life as a student is critical it means managing time for studies,
friends and family. With the help of online studying and academic workshops one can easily
maintain student life. They can do practice and develop personality by improve good habits like
waking up early, study and extra activities.
2.time management tools- one of the most important skills is to work on time management
and design routine day by prioritizing things. Once one can take a hold on time management,
then it would be easy to set goals and manage time better. By using digital methods and calendar
can help students remind about meetings, assignments and deadlines. Example- making to do
list, scheduling tools, setting target.
3.Concentration methods and tools- After hectic day in academy, student needs to
concentrate on learning `abilities so it is important for them to use concentration method. There
are different ways to increase concentration level such as yoga classes, meditation, online fitness
classes, taking deep breathing and light exercise is helpful (Jibril, 2021). The best way to
improve concentration ability is to daily practice of active listening.
4. Balance work/school/life- It is important to manage personal and student life all together,
so one need to learn how to balance these all together in comfortable proportion. It is not easy
task, but by utilizing various methods such as: attending career related online workshops,
academic online workshops, video conferencing, attending student wellness programs and
textbooks would be helpful. Always keep in mind about maintaining healthy lifestyle by taking
time for breaks, schedule time for family and friends, set achievable target, exercise regularly.

Each of the above-mentioned tips and techniques is helpful to create an efficient student
experience about this module and allow them to optimize time management skills (Torabi and
et.al., 2021). I think it requires a lot of practice and requires trial and error method to understand
what work well and what didn’t go well. By understanding the importance of best study
resources, students can enhance their personal and professional career goals. Thus, these
resources have supported me during this module and helpful in studies.
(B)
The word reflection is all about defining you own strengths and weaknesses and perception
of bad quality and good habits withing yourself (Hu and et.al., 2021). Taking important action of
weakness and improving academic skills helps me to develop myself around every student
(Gibbs reflective cycle, 2021). During this module, I have learned to manage my time with the
help of different resources and tools in order to prioritize task and project. Now, I can easily
handle my personal and student life both at a same time because of my time management skills.
With the help of Gibbs reflective learning cycle, I can easily resolve my problems in assignments
and reflect my own weaknesses. I have good experience about this because this helped me to
improve my writing skills and learning skills. I have used resources like concentration method
and online studies to improve my academic skills.
Based on my experience, my past goals were to manage things so that I can study effectively
without any issues and now that I have achieved those goals, my next goal is to complete the
researching skills with good marks. I have worked on writing assignments, here I need to learn
from my mistakes and ask my mentor to provide me feedback so that I can improve my
academic skills in near future (Howlett and et.al., 2021). While referencing is difficult task for
me and summarizing skills is a struggle for me, I have used various methods like reading
different journals, articles related to my study and books.
After analysing my weaknesses and problem, I realized that I need to work on some of
important elements like self-confidence and motivational factors. I need to start believing in
myself by adopting video conferencing and students’ wellness programs.
Taking this through with my own reflection, I have learned to understand myself and make
required changes in order to achieve academic skills. I will use learning tools and time
management tool to divide my time in the future in order to plan my day to study. Moreover, I
will suggest to attend classes to benefit career growth and development.

TASK THREE: literature searching, note taking and evaluating
(A)
Academic writing and referencing for your education degree
This book examines detailed information about plagiarism, relation between sources and
its text. some authors argues that it can be as a failure of pedagogy and the book also determine
the implication of gap between academic expectations of the students and their performance. The
book will help students to develop knowledge, skills and methods to achieve goals. They provide
support in areas important for studies such as time management skills, policies and standards,
research and communication and self-development and self-management.
Academic referencing offers new ideas and knowledge along with understanding of good
academic writing and the importance of using different strategies to write clear and successful
reports (Bottomley, Pryjmachuk and Wright, 2020). This book also highlights methods to
improve academic style, presentation and grammar, referencing conventions in order to avoid
mistake. It has also provided details about how to avoid plagiarism.
The Cornell method is a technique used for organising, taking notes and reviewing the details
about notes
Review/ self-test column
 What is academic integrity?
 Why plagiarism is a big concern
for university?
 Write an importance of academic
referencing.
Record
 The book shows about the integrity
to learn, research and teach at the
college and school.
 allows staff and students the freedom
to improve knowledge.
 build new techniques and creativity
while giving respect to others work.
 Plagiarism is a serious act of fraud as
per university if someone is
presenting work of others is covered
under this section.

Summarize- academic integrity is plays an important role to provide acknowledgement to
the contributions of the other people. While plagiarism is a serious act can be done by
anyone claiming someone’s else work as own creation (Browning and Rigolon, 2019). For
referencing, it is a state of facts, ideas and opinions and it allows students to acknowledge
the efforts of other authors in your own work.
Guidance Summary
Currency 2018
Authority Jane Bottomley
Accuracy Perlego
Relevance It will be helpful in research paper
Purpose The purpose of the information is to inform
teachers and students about academic
policies and rules in order to improve
academic skills.
(B)
International journal for educational integrity
This online article has described about plagiarism and academic integrity in
university. According to the Aggie Honor system office, plagiarism is all about academic
fraud or misconduct; it is mostly practised by students in university. It applies to text or
written word in magazines, websites, journals and others. It also pertains to charts, graphs
and photos and it covers all sources which is created by others (Neroni and et.al., 2019).
The article provides ways to avoid plagiarism and importance of academic integrity. This
article provides an opportunity for the researchers to take the leadership in the new field of
the academic integrity. It makes the readers to consider the change in the educational
nature in the external environment. International journal for educational are related to the
educational integrity which are plagiarism, cheating, honour codes, teaching, institutional
integrity and student motivation.

Currency Authority Accuracy Reliability Purpose
2020 BioMed Central
Ltd.
This article is
very accurate as it
has taken from
the correct
source.
This reference is
reliable as it
shows the valid
and the topic on
which the matter
is written.
The purpose of
this is to know
about the scope of
academic
integrity in the
educational field.
2018 Kadam, D This reference is
accurate as it is
based on the
academic
integrity and
plagiarism.
This is the
reliable source of
finding on the
academic
integrity and
plagiarism.
It shows about the
academic
integrity and
plagiarism new
laws and
regulations.
2018 Cronan, T. P.,
Mullins,
J. K.
and
Douglas,
D. E.
This reference is
accurate as it is
taken from the
valid website.
The reliability of
the reference is
high as it explains
about the
academic
integrity.
The purpose of
this is to know
about the factors
that affect the
academic
integrity in the
education centres.

TASK FOUR: Plagiarism and referencing
A. Explanation of plagiarism and academic integrity
Plagiarism is the process of presenting others idea or work with or without asking the
owner or author of that idea or work. It is basically using the other authors thoughts, ideas,
language and expression (Foltýnek, Meuschke and Gipp, 2019). It is considered as the violation
of the academic integrity and breaching of the journalistic ethics. The person doing plagiarism
will punish by penalties, suspension, expulsion from the institute or school or even
imprisonment. Plagiarism is not actually the crime but it’s like counterfeiting fraud that can be
punished by the court for using the copyright of the other authors and writers. But in some
countries like India and Poland the plagiarism is considered as the crime and people are being
imprisoned for plagiarizing.
Due to increase the internet assignments are copied and plagiarism is increasing over the
days. This has been rising in the academic institutions of the UK as in last three years almost
fifty-thousand students were caught plagiarizing (Kadam, 2018). It is very serious problem as the
students who are doing plagiarism may have serious consequences in their future and work
Academic Integrity
Plagiarism
Taking someone’s
else ideas and using
for own benefit.
Academic
Misconduct
Breaching of the
academic Integrity
Educational
Integrity
Important for
students to follow.

career. As doing plagiarism is like cheating ourselves and not learning something new in the
academic industry.
Academic Integrity refers to the system in which the teachers, students, researchers and
all other members of the academic community acts with trust, fairness, honesty, faith, respect
and responsibility (What is academic integrity? , 2021). Breaking of the academic integrity is
called the academic misconduct or academic dishonesty. The students having higher education
are expected to have the academic integrity during their education and studies. By having the
academic integrity, it protects the reputation of the students in learning and studies. The actions
show by the students in the institution shows their academic integrity in the institution
(Mahabeer and Pirtheepal, 2019). There are five pillars of the academic integrity which are
honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility.
Pillar one tells about the honesty that means the person must have honesty in the
academic integrity. Pillar two is of trust that is to establish the trust between the members in
order to do the best work. Third pillar is about fairness which means everyone should be treated
fairly and must be judged by the standards and community (Cronan, Mullins and Douglas, 2018).
Pillar four is about the respect which means the ideas and point of views must be listened
carefully and respected after listening and pillar five is about the responsibility which means to
acknowledge the accountability and responsibility in the academic integrity.
B. Producing 'at a glance' leaflet giving examples and explanation to produce a reference list
using AU Harvard referencing with including examples

AU Harvard Referencing
Harvard referencing style is the reference
style that is used in the piece of writing or
preparing the project. The author names are
there in the references and that are cited in
between the paragraphs of the projects. Every
detail contained in the reference is important
as it must include the authors name, year, title
and page number.
At very first the google scholar is
searched in the chrome and then click on
the google scholar to visit the google
scholar page.
.
. Search on the topic or title written and then
select the time that from which year the
person wants the references in their
.
After this the title is written on which the
person wants the references from the google
scholar. The title must be properly written in
order to get the right references on that topic

report. This is very important as
references are taken from the past five
years
The reference must contain the name or
names of author, year, title and the page
number from where the person has taken the
information. There is some editing done in
the references as removing of the commas
before the page number and putting full stop.
Then these references are cited between the
project and putted in the bracket by
Then the person should click on the cite in
order to get the references and select Harvard
references and copy paste that references in
the project which shows that the person has
use some information from that source and
does not done plagiarism.
For example:
Kadam, D., 2018. Academic integrity and
plagiarism: The new regulations in
India. Indian Journal of Plastic
Surgery. 51(02). pp.109-110.
This is the example of the Harvard referencing
done in the report.

containing the name of the author and year.
The citations are generally done after the end
of the sentence or quotes before putting the
fullstop. The references which does not
contain the page number will not be reliable
as the reader won't be able to understand
from which page number the writer has taken
and written the information in the report

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Cronan, T. P., Mullins, J. K. and Douglas, D. E., 2018. Further understanding factors that explain
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