Developing Academic Skills

This report focuses on developing academic skills through time management, note-taking, and academic integrity. It includes a study timetable, techniques for time management, and a diary reflecting on the learning process. The module also covers essay writing and reading skills. Subject: Academic Skills, Course Code: N/A, Course Name: N/A, College/University: N/A

Developing Academic Skills

TABLE OF CONTENT
TABLE OF CONTENT.....................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................3
TASK ONE ....................................................................................................................................................3
Creation of study timetable that cover duration of module and apply time management techniques,
contain record of time taken or spent and other commitments.............................................................3
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3.........................................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................................10
REFERNCES................................................................................................................................................11

NTRODUCTION
Academic skills are independent study skills such as numerical, note taking and writing
skills that helps student to learn new things in order to get better employment or job in future
career. Lecturer or teachers assist student about the way or methods that student can used to
enhance their academic skills in order to achieve higher growth and success in professional life.
This report is related to academic skills module that has contained timetable, time management
techniques and record of actual time taken and other commitment. It has also included a write a
diary that contained reflection of me such as what I have learnt, felt, strength and weakness of
me etc. At last it has explained about way to uphold academic integrity, avoid plagiarism and
reference correctly using AU Harvard referencing.
TASK ONE
Creation of study timetable that cover duration of module and apply time management
techniques, contain record of time taken or spent and other commitments
Every successful student requires to develop academic skills in order to gain learn several
things, concept or knowledge in limited time and outshine itself from others. Teachers and
student are working together for development of academic skills so that student can have bright
future ahead. Therefore, I have planned to work on my existing academic skills in order to
achieve higher success so timetable related to developing academic skills module is as follows:
Time Activities
7:00 A.M. Waking up
7:30 A.M Do exercise and meditation in order to have fresh
mind to learn thing
8 A.M. Breakfast
8:15 – 8:30 A.M. Read newspaper to have current knowledge
9:00 – 11:00 A.M. Working on my module
11:00- 11:30 A.M. Use phone to see message or use social media.
12 – 2 P.M. Work on my module and academic skills

2 P.M. Have lunch
2:30 – 3:30 P.M. Take rest
3:30 – 4 P.M. Have some snack
4 – 6 P.M. Continue my study
6 – 7:30 P.M. Go out and have fun with my friends
7:30- 8 P.M. Have dinner
8:30 P.M. Take a walk and listen to music
8:30 – 10:00 P.M. Study time
10:00 – 10:30 P.M. Check social media
11 P.M. Sleep
So, it the time table that has been made in order to organized my key activities so that
necessary academic skills can be developed and time can be effectively managed. The time table
has clearly specific my rest time, having food and snacks and my study time that could be helpful
in developing skills and growth of me in future career.
Skills Time management
techniques
Record of time
spent
Other commitments
Note – taking skills:
It is ability of student
to write important
point dictated by
lecturer in note book
for future use in order
to give answer of
examination paper.
Many of the student
like me find difficult
in making note or
writing main points in
Be focused will be
best time
management
technique that I
would be using in
order to note
necessary point while
lecturer is teaching
about specific
subject. I will try to
avoid distraction and
keep my mind with
I will try to practice
note taking skills at
least two- three times
in day with spending
around 20 minutes or
till the lecturer
continue.
At the same time I
want to make
commitment to
myself that I will
avoid having fun and
entertainment with
my friends in
classroom when
lecturer is teaching us
important topic that
has possibility of
coming in

short so that they can
remind easily in
future. Therefore, I
have decided to
included note taking
academic skills in
time table to further
improve to enhance
my existing skills.
whatever is taught by
lecturer so that no
crucial point can be
missed at any cost
(Okrasinski, 2020).
examination.
Essay writing: It is
another skills that I
have decide to be
included in timetable
or module of
academic
development skills as
University student are
also facing challenges
related to writing
academic essay as
they are using same
method of essay that
they used in high
school. Each essay is
of different types so
student must be
aware of the way
particular essay need
to be written.
Therefore, I has
decided to improve
Overcome
Procrastination using
4DSystem is time
management
technique that would
be used in order to
enhance my essay
writing skills. Such as
firstly I will delete all
unnecessary task or
activities so that I can
focused on more on
improving my writing
skills. In case it
cannot be delete than
I will find alternative
individuals that can
perform it. Do it now:
I will tried to devote
my time to learn
essay writing
regularly rather than
Overall 20-25
minutes I will be
spending on
improving my essay
writing skills so that I
can able to write
correct and valuable
content as per type of
essay (Jamieson,
2019.).
I made commitment
to myself that rather
than spending time
with family or having
leisure I would tried
to devote some of the
time in developing
essay writing skills in
order to attain my
objectives in limited
time frame.

my essay writing
skills to get good
grade.
doing other things.
Reading and
understanding
information:
Maximum number of
student tries to avoid
reading and
understanding
information or text
material. So reading
at university level
require student to
understand the way
they need to read and
pronounce particular
sentence and
understand the
information in similar
sense (Moir, 2016).
They should be aware
of form where or
who, when and how
material has been
wrote therefore in
order to learn all such
skills I have planned
to work on my
reading and
Setting priority is
time management
technique that I have
decide to pursue in
order to build my
reading and
understanding
information skills.
Such that I will
decide task that need
to be completed first
or priority basis. Thus
among all of them
complete the task that
are prioritised first
and then spent other
time in improving my
reading and
understanding
information skills.
I will devote at least
½ hours to read
books, find sources
from which they have
taken, when and why
written and its
importance in order
to effectively
understand them
(Khan and et.al.,
2017).
I have made
commitment to
regularly read at least
2-3 pages of books in
order to developing
reading habit in
myself.

information skills.
TASK 2
There are various aspects within enable academic skills which enable study and learning
to be profoundly strongly bring forward best metrics of larger informative diversity of scenarios
for gaining stronger goal advancement, to enhance new goal widely for keeping up effective
performance related efficacy. Lecturer plays high role of importance to train students with useful
resources and skills as analyzed within developing specific general skills, abilities to transform
stringent performance goals widely
Lecturer: Academic skills have strong role to enhance stronger working vision among students
within their professions and working scenarios for gaining larger new growth efficacy aspects, to
yield on higher informative growth within longer run.
Student: YES, we all are excited to gain informative knowledge based on varied new domains of
efficacy and also be trained on various sources widely (Rose, Curle and Thompson, 2019).
Lecturer: I am happy to see your excitement and hope to see you all gain various knowledge
based on various scenarios, which will enable you to gain dynamic skills informatively and be
stronger in gaining performance evolved parameters. We will be using various websites as online
study materials and notepads to record all information, teachings learned from various sources
for technical diversity within performances.
Student: Yes, professor, we keenly look forward to be attentive towards lectures and also attain
various targets informatively within course for having stronger business focused innovative ideas
and also productively be motivated to bring on efficacy among performance horizons.
Teacher: You all need to bring notepads and stationary for keeping up the records active for all
information attained among studies, be attentive among study lessons and also further be
competent to learn various other informative knowledge.

Student: Yes, we all are excited and look forward to attend all lectures from tomorrow for
learning various subject’s knowledge which will enable us to attain higher advanced diverse
learnings from various fields.
B) Diary
10th December, 2020
Dear diary
The module learning made me very confident to learn various skills and synergy of informative
experiences and larger scale efficacy for wider informational horizons pertaining varied
knowledge to potentially be competent and largely innovative for keen targets within
academics. While working journey of learning academic skills I was highly confident,
functionally competent and strongly looking forward to attaining various smart knowledge
Further, I was confident towards diversity of subjects and skills which we will be exploring
during lectures and be strongly looking forward to attaining higher informative growth,
innovative learning opportunities to yield higher growth efficacy among commercial
professional subjects which will enable me to be attentive towards varied future opportunities
(Son, Choi and Kwon, 2019) .
From the learning module, I identified that I possessed strong communication as well as time
management skills that helps me to attained the defined aim within specific tenure. Apart from
this, I also analyzed that I possessed strong analytical skills which helps me to make decision.
Through the module, I also examined that I faced issues with regard to use of reliable and
informational and this in turn shows that I possess low research skills for various subjects.
Therefore, I analyzed that I enhanced my learning and this provides me an opportunity to
improve mu knowledge as well as skills. \
For studying on future horizons i aim to be active on digital platforms for studies, which will
enable me to search various aspects within diverse arenas and also productively be competent
and strongly productive for higher informative growth parameters. I was able to enhance
various aspects of gaining functional diversity within various subjects, as keenly various new
domains were introduced to us by our lecturers in studies. Therefore, in near future, I ensured to
learn in more depth regarding each topic so that it will assist me to improve knowledge and

meet the defined aim. As I possess low research skills and to improve the same, I start working
and search topic through key points that helps me to study in more effective manner near future.
The entire module helps me to enhance the learning and gain new experiences which in turn
assists me to complete the defined aim. Further, I have also concluded that I identified some
strength as well as weaknesses, which should be improved so that it do not cause negative
impact upon my performance.
(C) During the first weeks of module training I was able to learn varied competent of reliable
and credible informational aspects based on functional enhanced knowledge efficacy operations
which have broadened my working horizons for academic excellence. There has been constant
development of enhanced working vision within my studies and also for keen new determinants
for higher informative growth where all resources were highly reliable and credible. The sources
also made me confident to learn varied knowledge to experiences within my professional
horizons, for being highly comfortable within academics (Alipichev and Takanova, 2020).
TASK 3
Source 1
In this dynamic world, climate change is really a serious concern, because it is very badly
affecting the human civilization. According to Ayegba, day by day the levels of climate change
is increasing, and if responsible authorities of the world not take appropriate steps towards
dealing with this issue of climate change, then the entire world, its people, animals and birds etc.
cannot able to live on the earth. Currently global warming is the main issue which has been
developed just because of climate change. Currently there are many factors exists in our society
which highly promotes the climate change. For example; industrialization is one of key reasons
behind the climate change, because currently there are thousands of industries exists in the
market place which releases very harmful gages and smoke (Ayegba,2018). However,
governments of different countries have taken steps towards stopping the climate change or
example; government of has formulated strict role different companies or people for not produce
and use such vehicles in daily operations which releases very harmful smoke. Ayegba said that

there are glaciers also melts continuously due to climate change, and this is why the levels of
oceans are also increasing. These all factors are not favorable to the human civilization as well as
animals and birds. In this modern world, people should be motivated to work in the welfare of
natural environment, because this is very necessary to stop the issue of climate change. For
example; currently many organizations are planting trees for fulfilling their obligation of
corporate social responsibility, and this is really a positive thing.
SOURCE 2
Academic database reference used has been highly informative to evolve within new functional
scenarios for larger scope horizons, to be competent and also for gaining reliable information
within varied aspects and also be primitively innovative on varied horizons. The source use has
informatively explained climate change scenarios widely for gaining functional records widely,
also to gain larger determinants on new scope paradigms and also be largely focused on for
gaining stronger diversity It can be also analyzed that climate change now detectable from any
single day of weather at global scale has been identified as highly essential aspect, which will
enable to gain knowledge among working horizons for larger scale functional knowledge. It can
be also understood that source profoundly generates informative diversity within professional
studies to analyze functional growth diversity and new hemispheres of studies for climate change
and how new world needs to take strong steps towards it. It can be also analyzed that by bringing
forward in depth analysis of resources individuals are able to be competent and productively
divergent for larger work growth efficacy within working scenarios, be functionally potent to
learn varied knowledge. Source and referencing enables project reporting within academic to be
largely associated with correct informative aspect, be potentially active on varied horizons and
also be active for learning varied new work growth studies (Tapley and et.al, 2019).
SOURCE 3
The online source enables us to gain productive information directly form author articles where
new profound researched information can be used for further analysis, and also keep active focus
to learn new varied aspects for being competently active towards leveraging higher strategic
understanding. It can be also analyzed that online sourcing enables business competencies to
functionally bring on keen measures under focus, leverage higher informative data based on
climate change which is highly reliable and credible. The online citations also enable

performances in individuals to be enhanced widely, on keen targets and functionally bring
forward new targets towards larger scenarios, It can be also understood that there are varied
competencies attached within referencing of subjects, where online sourcing enables business
competencies to be developed highly. The effects of global warming has been specifically
analyzed within this where we can in detail analyze varied horizons of informative data to keep
up functional strength of information and also pertain larger focus for gaining strategic
understanding within new scope efficacy. Online sourcing enables students within academic
studies to be active towards potential training forward on new subjects, higher keen efficacy
targets and also to yield larger vision oriented growth towards climate change (Global climate
change: What you need to know, 2017).
CARP test
Contributions of
GRACE to
understanding
climate change
(Journal)
Soil microbiomes
and climate change
(Journal)
Global Climate
change: What you
need to know
(Online)
Currency
1. When was the
information
published or posted?
2019 2020 2017
2. Has the
information been
revised or updated?
When?
No t As the article is
current so it provides
accurate results
There is a revision
because the data
gathered from old
information
3. Does your topic
require current
information, or will
older sources work
as well?
Required current
information
Yes, it required
current information as
it helps to provide
accurate data
As the article is older
so it requires current
information
4. Websites – are the
links functional?
The PDF is
downloaded easily
Yes No error of
downloading

Authority
1. Who is the
author/creator?
Tapley, B.D., Jansson, J.K. and
Hofmockel, K.S.,
Melissa Denchak
2. What are their
credentials? Are
they qualified to
write about this
topic? Can they be
contacted?
The article is related
to climate and they
are qualified enough
to present the article
Yes, have higher
degree to write the
articles.
Provide enough
sources to present the
article.
3. Are they affiliated
with any groups or
organizations?
No t There is no affiliation
of these authors
Yes
4. Who is the
publisher or
sponsor?
Nature climate
change
Nature climate
change
NRDC
Relevance/
reliability
1. Does the
information relate to
your topic or help
answer your
question? (Note: this
doesn’t mean that
the information
agrees with your
argument)
Yes, information is
related with climate
change so it is helpful
for me
Yes Information within
article was assistive
in completion of
study.
2. Is the information
at the appropriate
level for your
research?
Yes Yes Yes
3. Who is the
intended audience?
People Researchers and
people
General public
4. Where does the
information come
from? Does the
author provide
Yes Proper source of
information was
provided
Accurate references
helps to complete the
article

references or
sources?
5. Has the
information been
reviewed or
refereed? By whom?
Yes Yes Yes
6. Do you feel
comfortable using
this source in your
research? Would
your professor
accept it?
Yes Yes Yes
Purpose/ point of
view
1. What is the
information meant
to do to the reader?
This information was
helpful to enhance the
knowledge and
identify the issues of
cliamte change.
Current data assists
reader as it persuaded
them in enhancing
knowledge regarding
to climate change
Information helps to
raise knowledge
pertaining to global
climate change
2. Does the author or
sponsor clearly state
their intentions or
purpose?
Yes, Yes Yes
3. Is the information
fact or opinion?
Propaganda?
fact and opinion No propaganda Mix of both fact and
opinion
4. Does the point of
view seem to be
objective and
impartial?
No No No
5. What biases might
the author or
sponsor have?
Environemntal Ideological Political
6. Are there any
ads? How do they
relate to the topic
being covered?
No No No
7. Websites – what .com derived from .com helps to provide .org means domain

does the URL and/or
domain tell you
about the purpose?
network in order to
provide authentic
source.
information for
commercial purpose
name and
organization no
fitting in other
categories.

TASK- 4
How to uphold academic integrity
Academic integrity can be termed as moral commitment
of student to have ethical or honest behavior in context of
academic setting. It is most crucial at university level as it
demonstrate providing credit to other people for using their ideas
or innovative thinking. There are several ways or method that
could be used by student to maintain academic integrity like
checking with lecturer or professor about their respective
preferences or expectancy regarding citation of sources. The
second method that could be used to uphold academic integrity is
student needs to read syllabus carefully thus unclear topics need to
be understand by lecturer for no further mistakes. Thirdly, student
also needs to take prior permission from their respective professor
before sharing information or assessment with other students so
that chance of plagiarism can be avoided (Barr, Uccelli and
Phillips Galloway, 2019). Fourthly, Student needs to effectively
manage their respective time so that they need not have to rush
overnight in order to meet the deadline as it will lead to poor
quality or more chance of plagiarism. Lastly, student instead of
copying assignment of someone else need to ask for extension as it
is said to be academic dishonesty that will finally resulted in lower
grades. Therefore, all these steps need to be taken by student in
order to uphold academic integrity.
Cite original sources
To avoid plagiarism in the passage citation is must after every
original text which has been copied in the process. Citation also
includes publication year and page number on the copy of original
text.
Use of plagiarism checker
Many people uses techniques or formulas to check the plagiarism in
the content of passage which is being researched. This helps in
knowing the forgotten part where citation is not been written under
the original text. This technology is useful at huge message or
content which is being framed by the researchers in the process.
How to avoid plagiarism
Plagiarism refers to coping of words or ideas without using the
original author name. Sometimes it is done on stealing bases and
other work is copied on carelessness, accidentally and
forgetfulness nature. When academic paper is being framed it
needs to be build from various sources and evidence. Step
undertaken to avoid plagiarism are as follows :
Track your sources
While performing research on a specific topic, information and
evidence regarding the notes should be kept in mind to avoid
plagiarism. Many a times people forgot to collect the information
and idea came regarding the research and present in their own way.
It’s easy to avoid plagiarism by tracking the sources from which
the data is being collected for research in the work process.
Paraphrase and quote
When ideas and information from a source written on paper should
be paraphrase or quote from the original text. Quoting refers to
copying of words from the sources words enclosed in quotation
marks and framed under the name of the original author .Whereas
Paraphrase refers to explaining something from a source into the
simple words which are under stable by everyone (Purpura and
Schmitt, 2019). To avoid plagiarism in case of paraphrase need to
be checked twice as it should not be similar to the original text.
How to reference correctly using AU Harvard referencing
Reference is term that describe actual source that student
have taken in order to get particular information in order to make or
complete the assignment. Therefore, key points that needs to be
considered by student while correctly using AU Harvard referencing
for maintaining reliability and value of information (Álvarez-Bueno
and et.al., 2017). So, firstly, for reference of books and journal,
author name and initials should be used, then year in which it has
published, then name of book from which it has been taken or title
of article, then journal in italic. References need to be made on
separate page with a clear heading as reference and books and
journals so that reader can easily identified sources from which it
has been taken.
REFERENCES
Books and journals
Barr, C.D., Uccelli, P. and Phillips Galloway, E., 2019. Specifying the academic
language skills that support text understanding in the middle grades: The
design and validation of the core academic language skills construct and
instrument. Language Learning, 69(4), pp.978-1021.
Álvarez-Bueno and et.al., 2017. Academic achievement and physical activity: a meta-
analysis. Pediatrics, 140(6). p.e20171498.
Purpura, D. J. and Schmitt, S. A., 2019. Cross-domain development of early academic
and cognitive skills.

CONCLUSION
The report has concluded various aspects of developing academic skills to be highly
stronger within larger effective performance horizons for keen targets informatively, which
developed my productive growth paradigms to build larger new growth goals. The report has
concluded timetable of skills while preparing for academic excellence, time frame required and
also to be operatively active to learn various new subjects. The study further concluded various
aspects of new informative efficacy within teachers and students where various online sources,
websites are used to keep training of varied new growth goals. Research further concluded
various aspects of sources which are used for gaining knowledge on various climate change
sources and also to yield higher information growth efficacy within longer scale diversity. The
study further concluded analysis of various strategies such as paraphrasing, using varied reliable
data to learn informative data which reduces plagiarism.

REFERNCES
Books and journals
Alipichev, A.Y. and Takanova, O.V., 2020. Independent research activity of MSc and PhD
students: Case-study of the development of academic skills in FFL
classes. XLinguae, 13(1), pp.237-252.
Álvarez-Bueno and et.al., 2017. Academic achievement and physical activity: a meta-
analysis. Pediatrics, 140(6). p.e20171498.
Ayegba, O. D., 2018. The Gridlock Anthropogenic Global Warming Debate in Light of
‘Uncertainty’. Africa at a Crossroads: Future Prospects for Africa after 50 Years
of the Organisation of African Unity/African Union. p.77.
Barr, C.D., Uccelli, P. and Phillips Galloway, E., 2019. Specifying the academic language skills
that support text understanding in the middle grades: The design and validation of
the core academic language skills construct and instrument. Language
Learning, 69(4), pp.978-1021.
Jamieson, H., Supplementary academic skills offer.
Jansson, J.K. and Hofmockel, K.S., 2020. Soil microbiomes and climate change. Nature
Reviews Microbiology. 18(1). pp.35-46.
Khan, A and et.al., 2017. Communication Skills of a Teacher and Its Role in the Development
of the Students' Academic Success. Journal of Education and Practice, 8(1).
pp.18-21.
Moir, J., 2016. Computers, Competencies and Critical Thinking: The Assessment of Academic
Skills in Higher Education. Proceedings of MAC-ETL 2016, p.123.
Okrasinski, J., 2020. Developing Vocabulary Skills with Your English Learners. The New
Teacher's Guide to Overcoming Common Challenges: Curated Advice from
Award-Winning Teachers, p.102.
Purpura, D.J. and Schmitt, S. A., 2019. Cross-domain development of early academic and
cognitive skills.
Rose, H., Curle, S.,. and Thompson, G., 2019. What drives success in English medium taught
courses? The interplay between language proficiency, academic skills, and
motivation. Studies in Higher Education, pp.1-13.
Son, S.H.C., Choi, J.Y. and Kwon, K.A., 2019. Reciprocal associations between inhibitory
control and early academic skills: Evidence from a nationally representative
sample of head start children. Early Education and Development, 30(4), pp.456-
477.
Tapley, B.D., and et.al 2019. Contributions of GRACE to understanding climate change. Nature
climate change. 9(5). pp.358-369.
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