Study Skills for Higher Education

This report discusses the features of academic writing and the importance of study skills for higher education. It covers topics such as research, planning, and critical review. The report also includes a personal experience described using the Gibbs model. Subject, course code, and college/university are not mentioned.

SKILLS FOR HIGHER
EDUCATION.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Features of academic writing.......................................................................................................3
Describing the personnel experience:..........................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Skills are the ability of an individual to perform an activity with good execution, time-
management and energy so that to achieve the desire result at limited time of frame. Whereas,
higher education can be defined as the post-secondary education where an individual develop or
learn new skills so to achieve personnel end goals. The present report is based on the feature of
the academic writing and its importance in the life of an individual.
MAIN BODY
Features of academic writing
Academic writing can be state as scholar writing that is clear and structure with an
evidence with the main purpose of education a reader. It is mainly consisted of formal tone and is
very famous among the students of college and school(Ángel, Lucía and Martínez García,.,
2017). Moreover, it is consisted of various feature like structure, pierces and evidence that are
mentioned in detail below:
 Structure: The structure of academic writing should be clear and in a formal manner so
that reader can easily understand the main purpose of the research. The writing should be
logical and coherent that is divide in the different part likewise wise the first part is
consist of introduction that include detail discussion about the topic and the questions
covered that will be covered in the essay or research (Jiang and Hyland., 2020).
Furthermore, the second stage include the main body that include the detail discussion of
the question. The last stage cover conclusion that is a small summary of the report and
reference are the evidence that writing material are taken from the valid sites. Moreover,
it plays important role in academic writing as introduction indicates the write onion and
argument and key themes. Along, with this it helps reader to navigate the document
properly.
 Evidence: In the academic writing it is crucial to support the answer with reliable
source. It plays important role in referencing the information so that credit is given to the
original write (Kwak., 2017). It mainly done in the form of the citation and it is very
significant in the literature review and arguments as evidence is required while writing it.
Furthermore, the evidence includes the copyright sites and valid books and journal so that
reader can easily acknowledge the writing.

 Critical review: It basically means to evaluate the writing while conducting the research
because the main duty of the writer is to provide the relevant information to the reader.
Along, with this it also plays important role in making the judgment while conducting the
research (Samigullina., 2018) Moreover, it also examines the strength and weakness of
the article and it give the proper interoperation and description of the information to the
reader.
 Precise: The writing should use clear and pieces language so that reader can understand
the main aim of the report. It generally deals with the non-technical vocabulary for
conveying the message and even if technical words are used its meaning should be
specified so that an individual can easily understand (Yu., 2021).It plays important role in
making the reader recognize the methodology and argument the writer has followed. As
well as it helps the reader in understanding the findings of the research.
Describing the personnel experience:
The personnel experience has been described with the help of Gibbs model that is
discussed in detail below:
Gibbs model cam be defined as the framework that allow the individual for examining its
experience that help in making the appropriate decision (Gibbs reflective model., 2021). This
model generally includes 6 steps such as description, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, action
plan that contribute in the detail study of the experience.
Through the report I have experience that academic writing basically means the writing
done by the student of senior school. It generally has a formal writing manner that has been
divide into many part such as coverage, introduction, main body, conclusion and references.
Moreover, I have experience that the font style that is used is Times in Roman with the 12 as the
size so to maintained the uniformity in the report. During the project I have also investigate that
my learning skills has been improved as writing require critical review. Along, with this I have
investigated that it has various features such as prices, evidence and structure that has to be
followed by the writer while conducting the research.
Furthermore, while making the report I came across various feeling such as I was very
happy while conducting the research as I already had a little knowledge about it. However, I felt
very nervous while finding the reference as it was very hard to find the copyright site as well as
the procedure for citing the reference was also time consuming.

In addition, to this I have analysed that it has increased my knowledge as it allows the
discussion on various subject (Bitencourt-Ferreira and de Azevedo., 2018). As well as it has
improved my vocabulary and made my language more literate. during the report I have also
learned that time magnet play crucial role in writing as an individual has to complete the task in
limited time frame. Moreover, I have to work on my analytical skills so that I can easily do the
interoperation of the chart and the graph as it helps in determining the qualitative and
quantitative research. along, with this I have examine that I need to work on time managing as I
spend more time in research instead of writing and due to that I always miss my deadlines.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that academic writing has many features that help the
individual in enhancing the overall knowledge by improving the intellectual skills. Moreover, it
helps individual in dealing with the hard situation so that it easily prepares themselves for them.
Furthermore, it embraces the writing skill so that writer n easily expresses their thoughts and
ideas in any type of academic paper Lastly, the report has thrown light on the personnel
experience with the help of the Gibbs model.
Presenting the skills
Research: It is known as the ability to search, extract and organized and evaluate the
information that is reliable to a particular subject. This skill is very important in academic
writing as it help an individual in finding the relevant information and helps an individual to
complete the assigned task in limited time of frame. Furthermore , it helps students in applying in
building the future because most of the famous company prefer hiring the employees with this
skill. As it plays crucial role in market research of new product development and finding the
innovative ideas (Milad., 2017).
Moreover, it helps the individual in gathering the information that contributes in
enhancing the knowledge. Along, with this it moorage the curiosity that helps student to in
improving their creativity skills. It also helps student to identify the problems and address them
by collecting the quality information and provide the appropriate solution. In addition, to this it
not only helps students in writing the research report but it also teaches them the problem solving
skill that are essential in workplace.
Planning: It is one of the most important skill that an individual require in order to conduct an
academic writing. It is very useful because it helps individual in organizing and presenting their

thought in the report so that there is no confusion reading the report questions. It helps the
individual in completing the task at limited frame of time as well as develop the discipline in the
students. That will help them in enhancing their overall personality (Hundarenko., 2019)
.Moreover, it allows students in writing their new ideas that comes to their mind while
conducting the research as well as it give the idea to the write regarding the report. In addition to
this it reduces the stress of the students that contribute in increasing their productivity. It also
allows individual to manage their time likewise setting their goals up to date so that they do not
miss their deadlines. These skills not only help in conducting research or academic paper but it
also helps in enhancing the future if students.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Ángel, M., Lucía, N. and Martínez García, J. M., 2017. Improving English Language Learners'
Academic Writing: A Multi-Strategy Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Challenge. Gist
Education and Learning Research Journal. 14. pp.49-67.
Jiang, F. K. and Hyland, K., 2020. Prescription and reality in advanced academic
writing. Ibérica: Revista de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
(AELFE). (39). pp.14-42.
Kwak, S., 2017. Approaches reflected in academic writing MOOCs. The International Review of
Research in Open and Distributed Learning. 18(3).
Samigullina, A. D., 2018. Teaching first year students features of academic writing (complexity,
formality, objectivity, responsibility). Russian Linguistic Bulletin, .(2 (14)).
Yu, S., 2021. Giving genre-based peer feedback in academic writing: Sources of knowledge and
skills, difficulties and challenges. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education.46(1).
pp.36-53.
Bitencourt-Ferreira, G. and de Azevedo, W. F., 2018. Development of a machine-learning model
to predict Gibbs free energy of binding for protein-ligand complexes. Biophysical
chemistry. 240. pp.63-69.
Milad, M., 2017. Blended Learning Approach: Integrating Reading and Writing Research Skills
to Improve Academic Writing. Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics. 3(3). pp.23-55.
Hundarenko, O., 2019. Challenges of teaching academic writing skills in ESL classroom (Based
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Gibbs reflective model., 2021. [Online]. Available through <
https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection/reflectors-toolkit/reflecting-on-experience/gibbs-
reflective-cycle >
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