Academic Skills Portfolio: Skills, Referencing, and Plagiarism

This report provides an overview of essential academic skills. It begins with an introduction and then delves into note-taking strategies, emphasizing the importance of recording information from various sources. The report explores how to identify and utilize reliable sources of information, including books, journals, and online resources. It then addresses the critical skill of referencing, explaining different referencing styles and the necessity of giving credit to original sources. Finally, the report tackles the issue of plagiarism, defining it as an unethical practice and outlining methods to avoid it, such as proper quoting and paraphrasing. The report includes a reference list with sources cited. This document is a valuable resource for students seeking to improve their academic performance and understand the key components of effective research and writing.

Academic Skills -
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Table of Contents
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
1. Introduction.............................................................................................................................3
2. Note-taking .............................................................................................................................3
3. Source of Information.............................................................................................................3
4. Referencing ............................................................................................................................4
5. Plagiarism ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

MAIN BODY
1. Introduction
Introduction is first paragraph of research paper as well as first thing which individual say
in oral presentation. Although, introduction has two parts i.e., general introduction to the topic
will be discussing as well as thesis statement. Without introduction it will be difficult for reader
to figure out what writer is trying to say (Palti, 2019). There require to be thread of idea which
reader follow through paper or presentation. In simple term it can be said that, introduction
provide reader the beginning piece which will going to be follow in project. It provide brief
introduction of aspects which will going to be cover in report.
2. Note-taking
Note taking is related to the practice of information recording through distinct sources as
well as platforms. Through note taking, writer will be able to record information which is
important as well as they feel free from mind as it is not required to recall everything. In addition
to this, notes are generally drawn from transient sources like oral discussion at meeting, lecture
and many more in that case the notes may be only single event for recording (Iannone and
Miller, 2019). In simple term it can be said that Note-taking is essential skills for students mainly
at college level. Although, in context of college lectures main motive of taking notes may be
implant the material within mind as well as written notes have their major importance in
completing assignment in better manner. Along with this, note taking will provide assistance to
individual when they have to recall things again for conducting further research.

3. Source of Information
Research material can dawn from several distinct research sources as well as traditional
sources can also be use for conducting research such as books, articles, journals, individual can
use government reports, statistical, audiovisual material, news items and many more. In addition
to this, few materials like scholar books as well as journals go through peer review procedure
where they are analysed through experts within their area for reliability as well as quality (Li and
et. al., 2019). Although, it can be said that this may be difficult for establishing the provenance of
other information sources. For instance, anyone can create as well as disseminate information by
using web. In addition to this, it is important to find rich source of information because this will
provide assistance in gathering appropriate as well as effective data in better manner which help
in conducting overall research in effective manner.

4. Referencing
It is last page of research paper which written in several styles such as APA, Harvard and
many more as well as references list all the sources that has been used in project. So, that readers
can find cited in easy manner. In addition to this, when writer utilise any sources outside then for
supporting it there is requirement of giving credit as an in-text citation (Dubossarsky and et. al.,
2019). Although, each and every source which has been used in paper has to be appear in
references page of report. In this, sources can be books, websites, periodical, journal articles as
well as other media which writer use in for completing research and these also refereed as
citation or references. In simple term it can be said that, it is important to use correct referencing
as well as their citations on right place because this provide source from where data and
information has been selected.

5. Plagiarism
Plagiarism is unethical practices in that individual use words in unethical manner of any
other authors of previous work without any appropriate acknowledgement. In academic it is
considered as serious offence as well as it may results in several high negative consequences like
losing credibility and reputation of author, paper retractions and many more. In addition to this,
writers have to use quotes to indicate which the text is taken from another author paper as well as
it has to be exactly in the manner they appear within paper which writer take them from.
Although, for avoiding plagiarism it is important for writer to ensure that they will not copy
paste any quotes or articles which given by other authors. It is essential for writer to reduce
plagiarism chances because in relation of same major action has to be taken.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Palti, E., 2019. The swampland: introduction and review. Fortschritte der Physik, 67(6),
p.1900037.
Iannone, P. and Miller, D., 2019. Guided notes for university mathematics and their impact on
students’ note-taking behaviour. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 101(3), pp.387-
404.
Li, X. and et. al., 2019. Transient instability detection method based on multi-source trajectory
information. International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 113, pp.897-
905.
Dubossarsky, H. and et. al., 2019. Time-out: Temporal referencing for robust modeling of
lexical semantic change. arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01688.