Portfolio on Academic Skills: Referencing and Presentation

This portfolio provides an overview of key academic skills essential for higher education. It begins with an introduction to academic skills, emphasizing the importance of note-taking as a crucial technique for capturing information during lectures and study sessions. The portfolio then discusses the si...Read More

Portfolio

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Note taking.......................................................................................................................................3
Sources of information....................................................................................................................3
Plagiarism........................................................................................................................................4
Referencing and paraphrasing.........................................................................................................4
Presentation skills............................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are developed with lot of core skills including presentation referencing
academic writing and also undertake various complicated skills like reflective practice critical
thinking note taking and many more. For this portfolio tends to undertake various elements and
effective skills and by this portfolio I cover the significance of note taking and why it is
important. I also discuss about the effective sources of information considering the relevancy of
the details. Buy the portfolio I also undertake about what Plagiarism is paraphrasing and
referencing and also undertake various factors of presentation skills.
Note taking
It is a factor in which an individual listen to the speaker as what he and she is saying and
write down in the notes to remember it for longer period of time as what was said for the future
purpose. Not taking his essential and effective skill that can be used for the daily routine then the
university school college work and while studying. It is an essential key factor that helps in
communicating among individuals (Rabiner, Godwin and Dodge, 2016). For instance, when the
professor is talking about the assignment it is essential for the students to note down the key
elements to remember it for the future purpose and also look back it because it is helpful for the
future studying. Note taking is effective way for summarising and recording for what has been
heard and also recalled it on the later basis. Hence it is useful to prevent from the mistakes at the
time of attending lectures meetings and completing assignments to remember prominent details
at the time of conversation.
Sources of information
It is the prominent factor in which an individual gets information in terms of helping for the
overall Research and study. It depicts the proper analysis for the research and prominent use of
materials in terms of backing up for the work and study. By considering the reliable sources of
information it is useful to make sure that an individual effectively use prominent sources for the
work. Moreover, at the time of using sources of information it is essential that individual need to
be aware for a prominent information. For instance, if an individual should use reliable site to
collect information and make sure that it is true and prominently used for the effective
referencing. At the time of using the factor sources of information individual need to be able to
scrutinize the sources and prominent rechecking information (Bassok and Latham, 2017). It is

also essential to have reliable sources and information including reference websites journals
articles books that are used to have correct method for the proofing of information.
Plagiarism
This word is used as the concept of copying the work of other individual including their
information and ideas without their permission. For instance, writing the assignment and copy it
from the someone else’s work and getting the information through what to word without giving
credit is considered as Plagiarism. It can be done of unintentional and an international basis it is
important to understand to neglect Plagiarism and also essential to give credit for the prominent
source of information (Lin and Magnuson, 2018). It is also essential to not to use it for their own
work as it leads to become the disciplinary action. Besides this there are various types of
Plagiarism including copying and paste from the internet paraphrasing incorrect citation and
inappropriate acknowledgement of the statement. It can be neglected by making sure that
information is prominently referenced and breathing by the work to make sure that words have
not been imitated word to word.
Referencing and paraphrasing
Referencing is the concept which is used to give credit for the information considering the
name year and where the information was found. For instance, it includes websites articles
journals books. At the time of writing documents assignments and other form of information it is
essential to reference the individual whose information and ideas was used to prevent any sort of
Plagiarism. Referencing is essential to use in text citation that allow the assessor to understand
the effective part of the assignment considering the information from the referenced and permit
them to find the original source (Lerkkanen and et. al., 2016). Besides this Harvard referencing
style is considered including in text citation and reference list which is essential to consider the
name of author published year published City title publisher and the number of pages which are
used. Paraphrasing is also helpful for their own word in terms of writing information and
communicating to someone else. Paraphrasing depict when an individual using information from
another person in their own words considering the effective use for relevant within the work and
also provide huge impact on it.

Presentation skills
These skills are required for the lectures work and meetings and for this it is essential to use
effective methods to present their work. Effective factor for the presentation skills are presented
the prominent information significantly it is useful to get the message and data across the clear
way. One of the prominent presentation skills is developed and plan for the working effectively.
It depicts the prominent key which allow an individual to have effective idea of the presentation
that laid down and also represent that how it will be presented to others (Ledbetter-Cho and et.
al., 2018). Along with this planning the effective presentation leads to prevent mistakes from
occurring and allows you to remain professional. For this it is essential that the message which
an individual want to get across is effective and must be clear to the audience which is able to
interpret the information. It also undertakes the prominent factor for their presentation skills to
make sure that an individual should be confident at all the time in front of audience and does not
feel nervous as by this they may not pay attention to what is presented professionally.
CONCLUSION
By considering the above discussion it is identified that studying and researching the
prominent information help me in gaining more knowledge what is significance of each sector
and why it is done considering the prominent methods. For this I have also learnt the prominent
consequences for using false information and sources without using the exact differences.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bassok, D. and Latham, S., 2017. Kids today: The rise in children’s academic skills at
kindergarten entry. Educational Researcher, 46(1), pp.7-20.
Ledbetter-Cho, K and et. al., 2018. Meta-analysis of tablet-mediated interventions for teaching
academic skills to individuals with autism. Journal of autism and developmental
disorders, 48(9), pp.3021-3036.
Lerkkanen, M.K and et. al., 2016. Child-centered versus teacher-directed teaching practices:
Associations with the development of academic skills in the first grade at school. Early
Childhood Research Quarterly, 36, pp.145-156.
Lin, Y.C. and Magnuson, K.A., 2018. Classroom quality and children’s academic skills in child
care centers: Understanding the role of teacher qualifications. Early Childhood
Research Quarterly, 42, pp.215-227.
Rabiner, D.L., Godwin, J. and Dodge, K.A., 2016. Predicting academic achievement and
attainment: The contribution of early academic skills, attention difficulties, and social
competence. School Psychology Review, 45(2), pp.250-267.