Importance of Academic Skills in a Portfolio

Essay

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
SUMMARY.....................................................................................................................................3
Enumerate the 12 topics selected...........................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Portfolio can be define as a collection of different materials that basically demonstrate
individual's beliefs, skills, education, qualifications as well as experiences and training. It
generally shows individual's personality and work ethics (Denda, 2015). The following report is
going to cover different sections of a portfolio that states learning outcomes or which are related
to academic skills like group work, referencing, academic writing styles and many more.
MAIN BODY
SUMMARY
The topics that I have selected help me in enhancing my academic skills. It will help me
to become an efficient learner. Topics such as group work, SWOT analysis, plagiarism,data
interpretation and so on are the skills which will proved to be essential for achieving success in
my academics. Plagiarism helped me to develop my academic skills. It will help me to do
research studies in an improved manner. Avoiding plagiarism in my research studies will help
me to develop my own learning and critical thinking process. Similar, referencing or citing my
resources will present that I have invested my personal time in learning which has already being
published or thought by some researcher before I have given my own perspective. It will help me
to practice for giving credits to the sources that represent my work. Data interpretation which is
the most important element of a research study will help me to conclude my results and to draw
out a meaningful information from all the numerical data I have collected for my research study.
It will help me to enhance my academic skills in future as I will be able to conclude my results
and observations through data interpretation in more effective manner and with ease that could
be easily understood by the reader.The main objective of this portfolio is to demonstrate the
importance of various academic skills that will be helpful for the students to enhance their
learning style and to perform better in their overall academic session. Such skills help a learner
to be more confident about his/her writing and to participate in number of activities in more
confident way (Annalakshmi and Jayanthy, 2019). Such kind of basic academic skills will help
students in finding new opportunities and will be beneficial for providing a steady income in
future. Through this overall portfolio I have developed some of the new skills in me such as
group work as it will help me to complete my task in less time and will help me to know about
the perception of others for achieving a common goal. It will also improve my communication