Introduction to Academic Skills

INTRODUCTION TO
ACADEMIC SKILLS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Reflect your learnings where you need to access strengths and weakness of your personal
skills, academic skills and your academic English language skills. Make short term and long
term plan for improving these skills and develop a personal development plan.........................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
Prepare notes from the learnings of your reading material, listening and skills of paraphrasing
and summarizing..........................................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................8
Carry out academic research project based on your learnings from primary secondary research
methods........................................................................................................................................8
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................11
Reflect the progress of your academic learnings by preparing personal development plan and
action plan and provide feedback including need to set future targets......................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills including personal skills, academic English skills play vital role for
accomplish future career goals. Personal skills involve communication, leadership, interpersonal,
decision making skills and other which improve my learnings and knowledge and helps to get
future employability. These skills are required for accomplishing both professional and career
growth. Academic skills help to acquire knowledge about the approaches and technique used by
leaders and manager different business events. It helps to develop the personal skill which are
needed to improve competencies require take important decisions for future role in employment.
This report covers strengths and weakness of personal and academic skills and plan to improve
them, preparing notes from the university learnings, research project of learnings based on
primary and secondary research, reflect the progress of academic learnings (Brackett and et.al.,
2019).
TASK 1
Reflect your learnings where you need to access strengths and weakness of your personal skills,
academic skills and your academic English language skills. Make short term and long term plan
for improving these skills and develop a personal development plan
Skills Strengths Weaknesses
Personal skills:
From the academic work at
my university it has greatly
helped me to improve my
personal skills. Personal skills
include communication skills,
leadership skills, problem
solving and time
management.
As I want to be a leader as a
future career goals through
academic learnings it will
helps me improve my skills
and knowledge which helps
me to achieve my future
career goals (Cetin, 2015).
Applying these skills in my
daily life become difficult for
me, as I have to learn more
new languages in order I
interact with new people and
maintain my learnings.
Academic skills: Learnings from my university Writing each and every notes,

Learnings from my university
have helped me to develop
new ways of learning which
involves preparing notes,
research, paraphrasing and
summarising. These
techniques have helped me to
remember all the points of
learnings.
has helped me to acquire
knowledge about academic
skills, I have prepared notes
based on my learning which
makes easier for me to just
slip pages revise learnings.
paraphrasing, research and
summarising them of my
acquired learnings takes huge
time, which further breaks my
time management schedule
for doing other curricular
things.
English language skills Learning English academics
skills helps to improve my
communication skills with
people. It has helped me to
remove my language barrier
for interacting and
communicating with people
in my workplace.
Focusing too much for on
English academic skills
consumes time and efforts
which further demotivates me
to focus on other subjects.
Targets:
In order to have command over my personal, academics and English skills, I have to set targets
in order to improve my skills. During the learning course from my university, I have to set short
term targets in order to brings consistency and promote regular learning. Short term target
includes setting short time schedules for measuring the results of my learnings. Whereas long
term target includes setting time schedules of years so that I am able to nurture my skills and use
it in my further professional growth (Cimermanová, 2018).
Short term target: In order to measure the end results of the learnings I have to set target for 2
months by completely focusing on improving my communication, leadership and other