Portfolio: Academic Skills and Effective Strategies

Portfolio

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Note taking.......................................................................................................................................3
Sources of information....................................................................................................................3
Plagiarism........................................................................................................................................4
Referencing and paraphrasing.........................................................................................................4
Presentation skills............................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are developed with lot of core skills including presentation referencing
academic writing and also undertake various complicated skills like reflective practice critical
thinking note taking and many more. For this portfolio tends to undertake various elements and
effective skills and by this portfolio I cover the significance of note taking and why it is
important. I also discuss about the effective sources of information considering the relevancy of
the details. Buy the portfolio I also undertake about what Plagiarism is paraphrasing and
referencing and also undertake various factors of presentation skills.
Note taking
It is a factor in which an individual listen to the speaker as what he and she is saying and
write down in the notes to remember it for longer period of time as what was said for the future
purpose. Not taking his essential and effective skill that can be used for the daily routine then the
university school college work and while studying. It is an essential key factor that helps in
communicating among individuals (Rabiner, Godwin and Dodge, 2016). For instance, when the
professor is talking about the assignment it is essential for the students to note down the key
elements to remember it for the future purpose and also look back it because it is helpful for the
future studying. Note taking is effective way for summarising and recording for what has been
heard and also recalled it on the later basis. Hence it is useful to prevent from the mistakes at the
time of attending lectures meetings and completing assignments to remember prominent details
at the time of conversation.
Sources of information
It is the prominent factor in which an individual gets information in terms of helping for the
overall Research and study. It depicts the proper analysis for the research and prominent use of
materials in terms of backing up for the work and study. By considering the reliable sources of
information it is useful to make sure that an individual effectively use prominent sources for the
work. Moreover, at the time of using sources of information it is essential that individual need to
be aware for a prominent information. For instance, if an individual should use reliable site to
collect information and make sure that it is true and prominently used for the effective
referencing. At the time of using the factor sources of information individual need to be able to
scrutinize the sources and prominent rechecking information (Bassok and Latham, 2017). It is