LTU Academic Skills and Studying with Confidence Report

This report provides an overview of essential academic skills and resources. It begins by explaining the CRAAP test, a crucial tool for evaluating the reliability and authenticity of information from various sources, including websites and articles. The report details the components of the CRAAP test: Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose, emphasizing its importance for students in the digital age. Furthermore, the report explores the "Be brilliant tab" available on the LTU library website, highlighting its significance as a resource for students to enhance their academic skills, explore career options, and access valuable tools for searching, evaluation, and referencing. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of these resources in fostering effective learning and professional development.

Academic skills and
studying with confidence

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Explain Craap test with its application in studies.......................................................................3
Meaning of “Be brilliant tab available” available at LTU library websites along with its use in
studies .........................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
There are ample of skills are required to present in students in order to get success in
career (Gauvreau, 2016). For this they use certain tools, sources to get information. The report
comprises CRAAP test which is a tool to evaluate the authentication of data. In addition,
information regarding brilliant tab on LTU library website is also included in the report.
Explain CRAAP test with its application in studies
It is test that is used by an individual to asses the authentication of information received from
various websites, articles and other sources. CRAAP test is an effective tool to check the
reliability of data. The more details about tool is mentioned below:
Currency- This element ensures that information received by user is not obsolete. It need
to be current and includes recent fact and figures.(Beagon, 2018).
Relevance-It helps to check whether the information is relevant or not for users. It is
crucial to get relevant data to on a particular topic to enhance knowledge.
Authority-It helps to check the credibility of data to provide authentic information to
users. The information need to be written by competent person.
Accuracy-Data need to be accurate. For this, user should check its references, reviews,
support from other research and other factors.
Purpose-The reason to write articles need to be evaluate before rely on it. It will provide
inferences to user regarding purpose for which research was done.
The test is essential for students as it helps to check tha realiablity of data. Nowadays,
individuals rely on internet, websites, published articles to receive necessary information. This
tool help them to asses the authentication of data before using it. Thus, this test has greta
importance as well as relevancy in studies. Now there are ample of online sources available
from which information can be gather. This test helps learners to determine that the source is
trustworthy or not. Students and teachers both are depend on internet, previous researches to get
necessary data thus above stated test has high relevancy to asses the authentication of
information (Brady, 2017).

Meaning of “Be brilliant tab available” available at LTU library websites along with its use in
studies
There are ample of tab available at library page. The be brilliant page is also available on
library website. It helps to students to explore in career by providing them various resources such
as searching, evaluation, referencing and help section. It is an essential tool to enhance academic
skills of learners. In the current covid-19 situation, it is not possible for students to go out for
learning. Thus, brilliant tab is a crucial tool to explore new things and enhance in knowledge.
Students wish to get latest information thus they use various online as well as offline sources.
The respective library tab is a significant tab that will help students to learn new concepts to
explore in career. With this, they will be able to crate a difference and get success in professional
life. There are ample of options present while the tab is open that helps to get various valuable
insights to learners and assist them in studies (Campbell, 2016).
CONCLUSION
With above report, it can be concluded that there are ample of sources through which
students can gather information to improve their skills. Further, there are ample of test such as
CRAAP which helps to check the reliability of data.

REFRENCES
Books and Journals
Beagon, 2018. The Academic Perspective: A Study of Academic Conceptions of the Importance
of Professional Skills in Engineering Programmes in Ireland.
Brady, 2017, August. Developing Students' Academic Numeracy Skills: Taking a whole-of-
institution approach. In Proceedings of The Australian Conference on Science and
Mathematics Education (formerly UniServe Science Conference) (p. 176).
Campbell, 2016. Frameworking CRAAP: How We're Correlating the ACRL Framework to
Content Evaluation with the CRAAP Test in Our Instruction Practices.
Gauvreau, 2016. Online professional skills workshops: Perspectives from distance education
graduate students.International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning:
IRRODL,17(5), pp.91-108.
Malone, 2016. Frameworking CRAAP: How we're correlating the ACRL Framework to content
evaluation with the CRAAP test in our instruction practices.