Academic Skills and Study Confidence: Report on Key Aspects

This report delves into crucial academic skills, emphasizing the importance of reliable information sources and effective study habits. It examines the impact of trustable and untrustable information sources on student performance, highlighting the need for critical evaluation of sources. The report also explores the significance of proper referencing, explaining its role in academic integrity and research validity. Furthermore, it outlines the key elements of effective presentations, including multimedia integration, design principles, and audience engagement strategies. The conclusion underscores the significance of these skills for students' academic and professional growth, emphasizing the need to develop these skills to achieve their goals.

ACADEMIC SKILLS
AND STUDYING
WITH CONFIDENCE

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Trustable and untrustable source of information as an issue in academic skills....................3
What is referencing and why it is necessary?.........................................................................4
What is presentation? What are the good elements of presentation?.....................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills can be defined as those skills that includes presentation writing, comprehensive
reading, being proficient in critical thinking and reflective practice. A student in order to have
better grades must be engaged in having better academic skills, they must have a good control
over reading of essay and note taking. Present report will lay emphasis on the issues which are
hampering the skills of students. It will lay emphasis on trustable and un-trustable source of
information that can hinder result of the students. It will also lay focus on in value referencing
which can reduce potential for project made by students. Study will also lay keen emphasis on
presentation skills and what are the good element of presentation skill.
Trustable and untrustable source of information as an issue in academic skills
Information that is used under the academic skills should be reliable so that reliable results
generated are adequate. All the written sources of informations may not be reliable. It is possible
that the arguments raised are sound but that does not defines the reliability of information.
Several issues are to be considered before checking the reliability of information sources. A
reliable information provides supportive ideas as well as suggestions that improves the
understanding and the learning process. The information is considered a reliable and trustable if
it haves relevance to the topic for which information is required. It is important to check the date
of articles or the content and the name of author along with its qualifications. These things give
reliability to the information. Before trusting on any information check the author or publisher of
the article is posted over a reliable and authentic sources. (Jamshidi and et.al., 2016. )
Untrustable source of information can be defined as that data which is not reliable. If students
study from this data, then this can hinder or hamper their growth aspects. These type of data is
based on evidences basically researchers are involved in bringing out most reliable source of
information. If students are involved in studying from unreliable sources, then their grades might
get reduced. They must did not excel in their career if they study from Untrustable source. So
they must make sure to study from trustable source. This will help them in growing and
achieving their goals and objectives. (Sala and Gobet, 2017.)

What is referencing and why it is necessary?
Referencing means providing citation of the information and the sources from where the
information has been obtained. It is done so that the source of information can be acknowledged.
It present the information and evidence of the topic so that the reader can know that the content
provided in the report is genuine and not copied. It is necessary because it makes the research
successful and complete, (Cottrell, 2015.) it helps the person who reads the report in finding the
source of the information, it helps in improving the skills of writing and typing of a person,
putting references in the report gives authenticity to the file or the discussion which have been
presented in the report, it can help the writer to score good marks than he or she used to and it
shows that the writer has read the information thoroughly and then put it in the report. Putting
references in the files gives credibility to both the writer and the report. For instance there are
over 14 styles that a writer can use for referencing such as APA, Harvard, MLA, Vancouver,
Chicago etc. it is necessary to put references in the work every time when the information used
in the file is from the ideas or work of an another person. Information which is used in the report
must be detailed and appropriate as it is consulted from many sources. It needs to be done with in
text citations and at the end of the report the list of references is putted. (Poonpon, 2017.)
What is presentation? What are the good elements of presentation?
Presentation means presenting the asked topic in front of the audience. It is in the form of
speech, lecture which is used in order to inform the people, inspire them and motivate them so
that they can work together on the new idea. Presentation is also addressed as keynotes. To make
an presentation effective some of these elements are necessary such as including the elements of
multimedia in the presentation. The reason behind it is that there are many people who gets
bored by the words and loose the attention that is why it is recommended that most of the content
must be of visual aid so that they can learn as well as get entertained. Design of the presentation
needs to be in a way that attracts the attention of the people such as make it free of clutter, large
and sparse text and most importantly include the content with more and more visual tools. Colors
in the presentation must be palatable so that bold content can be highlighted. Over use of
animation must be avoided as it leads to errors. In order to make it more effective they need to
present it as a trial in front of different audience so that they can remove the errors and test the
audience. (Cottrell, 2019. )

CONCLUSION
From the above study it has been summarized that various issues have been covered during
learning academic skills. It has been analysed in report that if academic skills of student can be
hampered because of untrustable source of information. So students must make sure that they are
not engaged in taking information which us not relevant, as this can hamper their career aspects.
This can also impact on their individual growth and this can also hinder their growth aspects.

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Poonpon, K., 2017. Enhancing English skills through project-based learning. The English Teacher,
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Sala, G. and Gobet, F., 2017. When the music's over. Does music skill transfer to children's and
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