Reflective Report on Academic Skills and Referencing

Reflective report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Reflective report...........................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Academic skill is termed to core skill that encourages students for becoming more
effective learners (Cisco, 2020). With academic skills, students develop confidence for
participating in various courses. Effective skills enhances confidence, self esteem as well as
competence. Moreover, they improves potentials for improving ability for learning together with
retaining knowledge. Present reflective report is based on reflection on academic journey by
considering on academic skills that are developed by me in the course that is Personal
Development Planning. It includes building blocks as well as exemplars related to types of
referencing in the field of study. For this Gibbs Model is taken into usage for reflecting about
reference, how to reference and the ways to reference academic sources. It further includes
reflecting on presentation along with referencing development.
MAIN BODY
Reflective report
Personal development planning is the course in which I participated as course of study.
Personal development planning course have assisted me to reflect on my goals, career and
academic objectives together with developing plans for the purpose of supporting my
achievements addition to development. In this, I have learned about concept of references and
ways to reference academic sources. In the field of study, there are five types of referencing
which are as follows:
Book: It is written or printed work that includes pages which are glued or sewn together
with one side and bound in covers. To reference source, books are great type of referencing as
these includes information related to author name and title of the book. There are various books
which are used for the purpose of referencing a source. Students used them as these are
specifically designed to be used by students. Basic format for referencing a book includes author,
year, title, edition, publisher and place of publication. In this type of referencing, students have
earned that edition number for first edition of a book is not added as reference in citation.
Journal: It is said to a newspaper and magazine which deals with specific professional
activity or subject. It is learned that while referencing a source through Journal, name of journal
is stated in italics with upper case letter. Moreover, volume name is also in italics. References to
journal is done with author name via surname and initials, publication year, title name in italics,
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