Study Skills For Higher Education

Study Skills For
Higher Education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Why features of academic writing are important........................................................................1
Discuss the personal experience which have been learned from this course for improving the
academic writing ........................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2
Books and Journals.....................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
Study skills are those skills which are used and helpful for the students during the time of
their studies. The major importance which these skills have on the student is that students feel
more confident as they have the tendency to grab all the things at a faster rate and with this they
also feel motivated enough to work on their goals(Rosenberg, Lotz-Sisitka and Ramsarup,
2018). The reason for developing these skills is that these skills will not just be used in the
duration of academics but these skills will also be used when the students will chose their future
career. This report will cover important role which features of academic writing plays and the
personal experience which have been made with the learning of this course.
MAIN BODY
Why features of academic writing are important
Academic writing is that style which is used in the colleges and Universities which directly helps
in communicating the ideas to the community(Chigwada, 2019). This includes the ways by
which the academic writing has to be structured so that the reader understands the things in a
better way. Features of academic writing are important and those are discussed below-
 Structure- For doing academic writing it is important for the writer to use a particular
structure because with that the ideas which will be mentioned in that will be explained in
a clear way and will be helpful for strengthening the arguments (Shen and Ho, 2020). It
will also be helpful in getting the idea as to how the things have to be written which
gives the clarity to the other person as to how the things have been made and what there
intentions are.
 Balanced- Academic writing involves the arguments, justifications on the basis of which
the things are written and explained to the other person. This means that it is very
important to make the balancing of things in a better way so that it can be helpful in
explaining the things which has been written in the academic writing(Simpson, 2018).
Otherwise the things which have been mentioned will not be able to serve any purpose
and will not also explain that how the claims which are mentioned are strong.
 Formal- It is very important in the academic writing to use the things in a formal way
because if the writing will be made in an informal context then in this way the main
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