Academic Skills Report: Importance of Academic Skills in University

This report delves into the core components of academic skills essential for university success. It begins by differentiating between trustable and untrustable sources of information, emphasizing the importance of credible sources and the potential pitfalls of unreliable ones. The report then highlights the significance of proper referencing, explaining its role in academic integrity and providing a guide to including author names, publication dates, and URLs. Furthermore, it addresses presentation skills, detailing the elements of an effective presentation, including content, design, and delivery, while underscoring the need for confidence and audience engagement. The report concludes by summarizing the importance of academic skills in fostering future growth and success.

Academic Skills and
Studying with
Confidence

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
Trustable and untrustable sources of information............................................................................3
Referencing importance...................................................................................................................4
Presentation and the good elements.................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic skill are the behaviour learned by the student while studying in the university.
These are the skill which include different kinds of problem solving skills,analytical ability,
effective communication, and creativity and innovation (Skaniakos and et., al., 2019). This help
in making effective decision which essential for the growth of individual. Further the academic
skills are made of core skills, such as academic writing, presentation skills and referencing.
Main body
Trustable and untrustable sources of information
Trustable source of information is that which provide a through and well reasoned theory
of arguments and discussion. In other words these information are gathered from peer reviews
article book which are written by the researcher. Further there are other sources such as
professional article book because they are written by practitioners in a field to impart practice
oriented information. Some of this information is found on the google or other search engine but
they require payment for providing authentic data to the user.
Apart from this, there are magazine and article, newspaper from the well established
brand are consider as the trustable information for the academic skills. Newspapers and
magazines often contain both researched news stories and editorial opinion part that express the
view of the writer in the well define manner. There are many trustable website and blocks which

are reliable and people can trust to take information from those blogs and help the individual to
get authentic data. For example the source or information on which the student can trust is
screenshot and evidence.
Untrustable sources are those elements which provide unclear information and they do
not have any kind of information or the origin of information (Isbell and et., al., 2019). There is
vast kind of information which is untrustable is present in the internet, books and journals. As
they are copied from other primary sources. There are other untrustable source such as personal
blog and the problem with using these blogs as they no evidence of credential information from
where the information have been generated. In writing assignment this will show that how
individual gather the information which is authentic and my tutor will able to mark the
assignment on the basis of evidence and references.
Referencing importance
This indicates the relationship between the objects through which one object is designates
or acts in order to connect the different statement. In other words this usually consider a phrase
or expression, or symbolic representation. References features in many spheres of human activity
and knowledge and term to shape the meaning of particular to the context which is used to
describe the statement. Further referencing help to use the information in the assignment which
indicates that you have read and understood the topic from the reliable management. The
references include different elements such as name of the author, date of publication along with
the name of the book and the location where it has been published.
When student reference the article from the internet this is essential to write URL on the
referencing page at the bottom of the assignment. While writing the assignment if there is an
argument and statement which need support or evidence then there should be referencing. As this
it aid to figure out the exact source from where the student have used the information for the
completion of assignment. This is crucial to have knowledge about referencing as this provide
information about the text citation which consist of minimal information and with the sources
from where the information have been taken. The citation include brackets date of publishing
and the name of author. Along there is page number is also provided in the references as for the
convenient of the teacher or individual to gain access to source of the information.

Presentation and the good elements
In the context of academic skills presentation refers to the process of presenting the
particular topic to the audience. This is basically demonstration introduction or speech to
convince the audience. The presentation in the certain format are also known as the key notes.
Further this is done to generate the presentation content and this can be proceed with the help of
collaboration. Presentation viewers can be used to combine the content from the different sources
in the presentation. Some of the popular presentation products used across the globe which are
offered by Apple, Google and Microsoft (Ciesielski and et., al., 2019).
In the regards of academic writing report the presentation plays an vital role because this
is essential to make quality presentation which looks attractive to the examiner. There must be
proper lining and aliment in words. Beside this, the proper spacing between the words are
essential as this look pleasant . The marks are present on the basis of presentation done by the
student. Further in the presentation the content such as text, image and links should be added in
to each other as this will be useful in making quality presentation for the examiner. Apart from
this, to make attractive presentation there must be confidence and the individual must prepare
psychologically for the occasion and be ready to stand your ground.
There must be sincerity in the presentation and being able to communicate to audience in
the well define manner (Alsahafi, 2019). Every effective presentation require deep and wide into
the subject because a good speaker gather more information which is required to make
effectively presentation. The design of the presentation is very much crucial as this include
introduction a body and a conclusion. Along with this it is essential to state the fact as it assist in
providing in depth information regarding the topic in the well define manner.
CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report it has been concluded that academic skills are essential
to grow in the future. The individual must be expert in the academics as this describe the success
rate of the person. There are different kind of information such as trustable and untrustable
sources which should be taken care of and make sure that individual must use authentic source
for the academic purpose.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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2017 Vol. 7 (1), 7(1), pp.53-72.
Ciesielski and et., al., 2019. Academic skills groups for middle school children with ADHD in
the outpatient mental health setting: An open trial. Journal of attention disorders, 23(4),
pp.409-417.
Cottrell, S., 2019. The study skills handbook. Macmillan International Higher Education.
Isbell and et., al., 2019. Longitudinal associations between conflict monitoring and emergent
academic skills: An event‐related potentials study. Developmental
psychobiology, 61(4), pp.495-512.
Liran, B.H. and Miller, P., 2019. The role of psychological capital in academic adjustment
among university students. Journal of Happiness Studies, 20(1), pp.51-65.
Skaniakos and et., al., 2019. Study guidance experiences, study progress, and perceived
learning outcomes of Finnish university students. European Journal of Higher
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