Study Skills for Higher Education: Reading Techniques and Note Taking Methods

This report discusses the importance of study skills in higher education and provides techniques for effective reading and note taking. It covers scanning, detailed reading, revision reading, and skimming as reading techniques, and lists, outlines, concept maps, and Cornell method as note taking methods. The report emphasizes the significance of effective study skills in improving competence, confidence, and self-esteem.

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Identify important reading techniques that can help students become more efficient readers.. .3
Discuss four methods of note taking that will help students remember new information..........5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Learning study skills in higher education help individual to get success in life in order to get best
employment or outcomes in future. It also increase their competence, confidence and self-esteem
in order to conduct their future performance in effective manner. In their higher education, its
participate in various activities that helps them to learn various skills in order to become most
effective for their future. These skills reduce their anxiety about deadlines and tests as well as
improve their ability in order to retain and learn knowledge in relevant manner (Al-Samarraie,
and Hurmuzan, 2018). These skills are important for every student because it helps students to
cultivate self-motivation in effective manner. These skills provides methods that helps student to
improve their organised skills in effective manner. Reading skills is one of the most effective
skills that helps individual or student to exercise their analytical and comprehension abilities in
effective manner. It provides verbal fluency and general knowledge to the student in effective
manner. It makes student better and effective reader as well as score higher marks in their
academic session in effective manner. It also improve their language skills and communication,
develop their creativity and imagination and makes them more empathetic that helps students to
conduct its future job in effective manner.
TASK
Identify important reading techniques that can help students become more efficient readers.
It is very important for the success of the individual that they have effective skills in
relation to the reading and writing skills. These skills helps the individual to develop better
understanding and also the makes them to achieve success in their academic as well as
professional career. It is important for the individual to evaluate their personality and analyse
that whether these skills are present in their personality or not. If these skills are not present in
their personality then they have to develop them. It is not impossible for them to develop these
skills because many people develop these skills in their personality with the helps of cont9inous
efforts and handwork (Bezanilla, andet.al 2019). There are many techniques which helps the
individual to create the habit of reading in their behaviour. It depend upon the skills of the
individual which technique they have used to develop these habits. These habits enables the
person to gain special recognition from the society and also to become able to deal with different

problems of life. The brief discussion related to the techniques used to be come effective leaders
are given below:
Scanning
It is one of the most important technique which is used by many people to develop
effective reading skills in their behaviour. Under this technique the individual is required to
locate the precise information. It is essential for the individual to read different types of books
and journal which helps the individual to understand the topic in precise manner. It is essential
for the individual to find the key words from the matter and analysed that what is the use of that
and which places they can be used by the individual (Damoah, Peprah, and Brefo, 2021). It is
very important for the individual to concentrate on the reading and try to minimise the barriers
which are taking part in the process. One of the most important skill which is needed by the
individual to develop reading is effective communication and execution skills. the execution
skills helps the individual helps them to execute the plan which they they create to develop
reading skills in their personality. The effective communication skills helps the individual to
interact with different types of people which helps the individual to take the knowledge about
different aspect of life and also the matter.
Detailed reading
It is very important for the individual to develop special reading skills in skills in their
personality which helps them to read all types of books and documents effectively. These skills
helps the individual to understand academic concepts effectively so that they can get the
recognition from their institute. Most of the people does not have these skills but these can be
developed on the basis of some techniques and detailed reading is one of the most important and
common used techniques. This technique are used by many people to develop reading skills.
This technique enables the individual to critically consider the aspect of all the reading matter by
continuous reading (Grinberga-Zalite, andet.al., 2019). It is essential for the individual to make
the reading their habit so the number of skills can be developed in them. This techniques for the
development of reading skills enables the user to to read the full text in place of only the selected
topic which helps the user to make the habit of reading normal for them.
Revision reading
It is analysed by the many example that many people are facing difficulties while reading
any document and text in their academic as well as their professional skills which helps the

individual to achieve their intellectual skills. Revision skills enables the individual to revise or
reading the text again and again so that it become easy for them to become the one what they
does not have so. This techniques enables the individual to use those tools which become their
families and also the friendly of them.
Skimming
It is related to those technique of the reading skills under which the individual has to find
new and innovative idea for the development of these skills (Keinänen, andet.al 2018). It is
required to become fast and accurate to develop these skills in their personality.
Discuss four methods of note taking that will help students remember new information
Effective note taking supports the students in holding what they learned in class by which
they can utilise the material to study and develop their skills and manage complex issues. It also
shows that there is lower term of opportunities for students that will remember fundamental
information that are present in their notes. As it is also essential for students to summarizing and
make visual guides and images in their notes for making it more effective. The essential thing is
to find note taking strategies that works for them. As there are various sort of the note taking
methods that help students in their further development that are as follows -
 Lists -
By making lists it will help students in managing their proper scheduling and task and as
well as their activities in their course life.
Description – It involves consecutive listing that are presented as per their short fields or
complete the paragraphs that shows the orientation of thoughts in an effective and as well as in
efficient manner.
When to Use – This sort of the method is what most students to utilise as a disengagement if
they have not learned about other methods (Kühling-Thees, andet.al., 2020). This method
generally needs lot of writing and they might ascertain that they are not holding up with their
professors. As it will be not effective for students to rate their thought of the orientated ideas in
this method.
 Outlines -
By making outlines it will support students and scholars in their academic life by which they can
maintain their courses and as well as activities that they perform on regular basis.

Description – The outline method maintain the essential section that involves the thoughts with
left term of the margin that are to be numbered with the Roman numerals in an effective and
efficient manner. By helping orientated thoughts to such main fundamental section that are
indented and also to be noted with capital letters (Melnychuk, andet.al., 2019). Under each of
such orientated ideas, further detail can be mentioned with the designated term that involves the
Arabic number and the letter with lower case letter and so on.
When to Use – An effective and efficient section of the outline method will utilise when the
material that are presented by the instructors that are well maintained and as well as well defined.
As it make easy for the students and as well as scholars to utilise it at the time of taking notes on
their computes or books by which they can easily hold the information and data.
 Concept Maps -
It will help students in setting their criteria and marking essential point in their course life in their
activities and as well as in their task. It also maintain the balance between the students and
teachers to follow their scheduling by which they can easily manage their task and activities.
Description – When it design the manner of the concept it will follow the concept map that
discusses about the place of the central thought of idea in the centre of the page and then by
adding the lines and new circles in the page for new ideas it will be effective and efficient for
them to maintain their furthermore success (Murillo-Zamorano, andet.al., 2019). By utilising of
the arrows and the lines to connect the several thoughts of the ideas and framework of the
structure.
When to Use – It will relates to present the manner term of the relationships between the ideas of
the students and tutors in an effective and as well as efficient manner. Also it will be effective
and suitable that if the instructor will tend to maintain from one thought of the concept map or
the another and the back as well.
Cornell Method -
Description – The Cornell method utilise two section of column approach. As the lest column
will follows about the column that takes up the notes more than a third of the page and it will
frequently termed to the “cue” or “recall” column. As on the other hand, right column will covers
the two third of the page that are utilised for taking note by utilising any of the methods that are
described above or the combination of it (Okolie, andet.al., 2019). After the class or completing
the reading, reviewing their notes and write the fundamental section of the ideas and framework

of concept or the questions in the left column. It might also involves about the summary box at
the last of the page in that students that easily write their task summary of the class or reading in
their own terms of the words in an effective and efficient sort of the manner.
When to Use – The Cornell method can involves any of the method by which the above will
follows the suitable framework of structure that offers useful format for recommending the
section that uses the section of format for calling out fundamental concept, prioritizing thought
of the ideas and managing the organising and review of the work in an effective and as well as
efficient manner (Pouratashi, 2019). Most of the Universities will follows suitable structure of
the method that form the Cornell methods with an effective approach.
CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report it has been concluded that, the learning outcomes is very
essential for the growth of the particular individual in their personal as well as professional life.
It improves the quality in the education of the people which give them all round development.
There are several ways or techniques by which students can take support in order to become
more effective as well as efficient reader. In addition to it, note taking skill is very much crucial
for the professional career of the students as it can help them in being more effective. It is also
concluded in the above report about the four methods of note making which can help the students
remembering new information.

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