Importance of Effective Communication in Student's Life

This reflective essay explores the significance of effective communication skills in student's life, emphasizing its impact on academic and professional success. It discusses verbal and non-verbal communication, learning styles, and personal experiences. The essay concludes by highlighting the importance of communication skills for career growth.

Reflective essay

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Main body .......................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Communication is a way through which individuals share their views,
opinions and transfer information with others it can be in the form of written
and verbal (Buluş, 2017). Communication is very important in academics
because reading and writing are very important part of communication skill.
This essay will elaborate about the importance of effective communication
skill in student's life. Besides this, performance and behaviour of student has
been discussed in this essay.
Main body
Through communication, humans are able to convey their feelings,
views, ideas, information, facts among people (Effective Communication,
2021). Excellent communication is the key of success. For example if the
manger of any company have all the qualification and skills but they don't
have command on communication all their skills get vanished. So the
effective communication skill plays vital role in the academic and in
professional life as well.
Communication can be categorised in two types. Verbal
communication, which take place by word of mouth and oral conversations
which exchanged between one and another (Dolan, 2017). Oral
communication helps a lot to students in their academics at the time of
giving presentation. If the oral communication is good then the speaker will
able to deliver their thoughts clear and precisely to the listeners. Even
listeners will easily understand what speaker wants to convey.
Apart from this another communication happens in the routine life
which is known by non-verbal communication. It happens with the help of
sign, symbols, gestures, body language, facial expression and by written
language.
Written communication is the procedure through which the students
can share their ideas with the help of emails, books, journals, magazines and
social media. With the help of written communication students can gain

knowledge that how to write effectively so that reader can easily understand
what they want to serve.
Good communications nurtures confidence among students. But it
depends that the student must choose the correct medium of
communication. For example if the student has selected oral communication,
so while speaking they must have proper eye contact with the listener they
must have good body language and appropriate hand gestures (An, 2017).
On the other hand if they have chosen written communication they must
select correct word and sentences so the reader can understand the same
meaning of sentences which the writer wants to convey.
Learning style is very essential in students life, it puts significance
influence on the behaviour of students. There are different types of learning
style such as visual, auditory and read & write. In the visual, students uses
images, maps and graphics to understand any new information in deep. This
is very helpful in their academics as they can easily remember all the things
which they have seen like images and chart. By auditory they can learn new
things by listening lectures and by participating in group discussions as well.
On the other hand, by using read and write style students can learn the
things in deep and can exchange their views with the help of correct words
and idioms.
As per my individual performance, communication has played a
significant role in my academics as well as my professional life. Good
communication has boost confidence in me (Labib, 2017). It has helped in
developing good presentation skills, in which I can speak in-front of a lot of
people and convey my views. Effective communication help me to improve
my behaviour, now I can easily build relationship with other people and they
also listen my thoughts and views carefully. I have worked hard to develop
good communication by interacting with a lot of people in a day, by reading
books and newspaper and the result is I become so efficient in writing as well
as in oral communication. Due to good communication skill I got many big
opportunities to grow in the future. But it is also important to be a good

listener first because after listening carefully I can solve any problem quickly.
Effective communication helps me reduces misunderstanding and conflicts
as well. With the help of body language and gestures I am able to deliver my
views to others and they also feel important and focused when I do eye
contact with them while speaking. Apart from this learning styles also help
me to learn new things by visuals, videos, images, map, charts and
participating in group discussions.
Experience : According to my personal experience I found that
effective communication is very important in the personal life and in
professional career as well. Good communication gives me various
opportunities in my career. For example if I am setting in a job interview and
I am unable to deliver my thoughts I will definitely loose the opportunity just
because of poor communication on the other hand if I have strong command
on communication I can face any difficulty and hurdle of life. In this mode era
communication is very important because we share and receive much
information and views and interact with many people in a daily life, if I am
unable to understand their thoughts it will create misunderstanding and
conflicts (Tang, 2018). Besides this effective communication helps me a lot
in my academic journey, due to having command on communication I got
the chance to lead the team just because I am able to make other people to
understanding my thoughts and feelings. By effective communication I get
motivation and inspiration and it has changes my personality thoroughly. In
my opinion everyone should gain communication skill because it is very
important to survive in this modern era. If people improve their
communication other people will also listen to them and take advice as well
but nobody is interested in listening to those who even can't speak well.
Besides this good communication opens a route of career growth, specially
for those who are in their school or college life. Good communication help
them throughout their professional journey.

CONCLUSION
It is concluded that, this reflective essay speaks about the importance
of effective communication, and how it helps the students as well as other
persons in their academic and professional journey. It also elaborated that by
implementation verbal and non- verbal communication any person can
convey their views and thoughts to others. Besides this, importance of
learning styles and how it helps in students academic life has been explained
in this essay.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
An and et.al, 2017. Learning styles theory fails to explain learning and
achievement: Recommendations for alternative
approaches. Personality and Individual Differences.116.pp.410-416.
Buluş and et.al, 2017. Effective Communication Skills: A New Conceptual
Framework and Scale Development Study. International Online
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Dolan, R., 2017. Branding yourself effective communication
skills. Microbiology Letters.364(2). p.fnw289.
Labib and et.al, 2017. On the way to learning style models integration: a
Learner's Characteristics Ontology. Computers in Human
Behavior. 73. pp.433-445.
Tang, K.N., 2018. The importance of soft skills acquisition by teachers in
higher education institutions. Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences.
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