Academic Skills, Confidence, and University Support: A Detailed Report

This report explores the concepts of academic skills and studying with confidence, crucial for success in higher education. It begins with an introduction to academic skills, highlighting the importance of continuous learning and self-motivation. The main body delves into the CRAAP test, a critical evaluation tool for assessing the reliability of information sources across academic disciplines, focusing on currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, and purpose. The report then examines the support services provided by Leeds Trinity University, including assistance for students with disabilities and mental health support, as well as resources for academic success. The "Be brilliant" initiative is discussed, emphasizing the university's commitment to providing resources like libraries and online support. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and emphasizing the significance of these concepts for students. The report uses examples and references relevant academic literature to support its arguments.

ACADEMIC AND
STUDYING WITH
CONFIDENCE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CRAAP TEST........................................................................................................................1
Service support provided by Leeds Trinity university ..........................................................3
Be brilliant by Leeds Trinity University................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCE...................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Academic skill is defined as the skill which is learn from the schooling and during the
academic days. Where it is defined as process of continuous learning and developing skills. The
skill which is develop during the schooling by facing new challenge and new issue which help to
create a skill to just overcome and increase the confidence and self motivation called academic
skill. Studying with confidence is term as while in schooling the things is more good. Mind is set
for the motivation and learning and timely filled by new concept (Cassidy, A. and Poole, G.,
2016). The evidence and the information is our today life, the new concept and new technology
is arise by new brain which is develop in academic, where they have skill to change the pattern
of something, it may be application, software, services, product and many more. The think of
formulate new thing and new core were develop during the academic session where we develop.
The information about the academic skill and studying with confidence is modern life. The
current day and era is best significance of changes the present time which is occur due to skill
and confidence due to studying. The evaluation of source is done by many article which is used
to written on skill and attribute.
MAIN BODY
CRAAP TEST
The CRAAP test is defined as the test which is essential to check the objective reliability
of sources across academic discipline and nature of new skills. CRAAP is in broad term defined
as the currency, relevance, authority, accuracy and purpose. Die to the increase number of
sources in online in past, its is tough to tell the sources are trustworthy to use as technique for
major research process (Lloyd, C. and Jones, S., 2018). The CRAAP time have specific objective
to make the easy for educator and student to analyse their sources can be trusted. Employer test
while checking the sources, the researcher have ability to to reduce the likelihood of using
unreliable information. It is useful in the academic skill and study with confidence to know the
source and resource.
Currency: which help in to provide the timeline of information.
 When was the information published and posted?
 Has the information is repeated or new updated?
 Is the information current or out of date for the topic?
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 Are that are functional?
Relevance: the essential of the information for needs
 is that information relate to topic?
 Who are the audience?
 Is the information is proper?
 There are various sources which help in determining?
 Would be comfortable using the source for a research paper?
Authority:
 who is the writer/ author or publisher.
 Are the writer or author is certified?
 What are author qualification to write on the given topic?
 Does the URL provided by the author is revel the source or not? For example- .com, .org,
.net and so on
Accuracy: the reliability, truthfulness and correctness of the content of topic (Machin, S. and
Murphy, R., 2017).
 Where does the information come form?
 Is the information supported the facts?
 Has the information been reviews or referred?
 Can verify the information in another sources or form the known knowledge?
 Does the language or tone seem biased or partial or free form emotion?
 Are there is grammar and spelling error?
Purpose: the reason of information or fact exist
 what are the purpose of the information? Information? Sell? And or entertain?
 Do the author/sponsor make their intention or purpose clear?
 Is the information fact and opinion?
 Does the point of view appear in the aim?
 Are the thing goes biased through the political, idealogical, cultural, institutional and
personal biases.
These are the factor which is applied in skill and studying that provide the reliable study
and fact base of study.
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Service support provided by Leeds Trinity university
The Leeds Trinity University provide the key support to many of student who is facing
problem in their academic studies. They enrol as a counsellor with many of chair and student
who need any support regards to some key aspect they are ready to give.
Student with disabilities: They provide the advice and additional support to student with the
range of disabilities. Such as dyslexia or other specific learning difficulties, medical condition,
asperger's syndrome, visual and hearing impairment, physical or mobility difficulties (Redmond,
Ú., 2020). They also provide help with temporary service with broken arms.
Mental health: They provide the most appropriate supports whether that be via our qualified and
experienced practitioners on campus or via local NHS and NON NHS services. They provide
free access from the free online support with together-all.
Health: They provided local GP practice and dentist in the area to ensure about the necessary
care that the student want. If you will living in campus, you will within the catchment area of
local GP surgery.
Be brilliant by Leeds Trinity University
Be brilliant by the university context means the student have lots of resources and other
platform to study. The university provide him library and online support for the study, they start
the initiative like help in the library which have collection of many books which appropriate
reference. As per the Leeds Trinity University there are collection of resources to support student
in learning to search for the what they want to do, evaluate the body and reference the
information effectively (Ziogas and et. al., 2017). Thus, there are many books for the open book
is as school of communication where the available books are criminology, psychology and sports
and other. The concept of be brilliant by the university is to provide the source of knowledge.
CONCLUSION
As per the topic, academic skill and studying with confidence is basic in schooling while
the fact of information is collected by the topic and article given in some sources, the concept of
all the above topic is discussed with the help of appropriate example and given university
resources and websites.
REFERENCE
Books and Journals
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Cassidy, A. and Poole, G., 2016. Using social network analysis to measure the impact and value
of work that takes us beyond institutional boundaries. International Journal for
Academic Development, 21(4), pp.323-336.
Lloyd, C. and Jones, S., 2018. Researching the sector from within: the experience of establishing
a research group within an FE college. ReseaRch in Post-comPulsoRy education, 23(1),
pp.75-93.
Machin, S. and Murphy, R., 2017. Paying out and crowding out? The globalization of higher
education. Journal of Economic Geography, 17(5), pp.1075-1110.
Redmond, Ú., 2020. “Creating capital”: the impact of sustained engagement with extracurricular
activities on access students’ experience of university (Doctoral dissertation, Dublin
City University).
Ziogas and et. al., 2017. Mentoring and Coaching in Transport and Logistics Higher Education:
Issues and Challenges.
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