Academic Skills and Studying with Confidence: A Detailed Report

This report delves into the core aspects of academic skills, crucial for university students' success. It begins by defining academic skills, encompassing problem-solving, analytical abilities, communication, and creativity, and highlighting their importance in decision-making and personal growth. The report then distinguishes between trustable and untrustable sources of information, emphasizing the credibility of peer-reviewed articles, established magazines, and reputable blogs, while cautioning against unreliable sources like unverified online content and personal blogs. The significance of referencing is thoroughly examined, explaining its role in acknowledging sources, supporting arguments, and ensuring academic integrity. The report outlines the essential elements of referencing, including author names, publication dates, and URLs for online sources. Furthermore, it explores the elements of effective presentation, emphasizing the importance of format, alignment, spacing, and the inclusion of visuals to enhance audience engagement. The report concludes by reiterating the significance of academic skills for individual growth and the need for students to critically evaluate information sources to produce high-quality work.

Academic Skills and
Studying with
Confidence

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

INTRODUCTION
Academic skill is related to behaviour so a student which is in concerned while studying
in university. These are skills which include different problem solving approaches, analytical
ability, communication skills and skill of innovation & creativity (El-Daw and Hammoud, 2015).
This is very helpful in making of effective decision which is essential for individual growth.
Academic skills have to be present in core qualities of a student such in writing skills,
referencing and presentation skills.
Main body
Trustable and untrustable sources of information
Trustable sources are those which provide information from a well trusted theory of
discussion and arguments. This information is gathered from various peer reviews and articles
which are written by various well known writers. Sometimes such type of information is
available on various online websites and search engines.
There are various magazines and newspaper articles from well established brands which
provided trusted information for development of academic skills. Magazines and newspapers are
researched and new articles and editorial pages can be used to understand view of writers in a
better manner (Wentzel, 2017). There are many blogs of good writers which can also be
considered by students to extract information. This can also help one in taking trusting
information and authentic data. Evidences and screenshot can also be used by a student in getting
a trusted form of information.
Untrustable sources can be referred to as those which are providing information which is
not clear and such type of information in most case do not posses any type of authentic base.
There are large sources which are providing information which cannot be trusted such as
internet, various journals and books (Hebert and Hauf, 2015). These are copies of original work
and this is reason why they can't be trusted by anyone to get reliable information. Many personal
blogs also do not provide information which is having a strong a trusted base and they don not
have a credential information which can be used. In case of writing assignments it is necessary to
know from where a individual is gathering information and that has to be authentic enough.

Referencing importance
This indicates a relationship between various objects in which one object is having a
connection with another statement. It can also be said that there si a expression, phrase or a
symbolic representation. Reference features are present which can be used as a part of human
activity or knowledge and used for shaping in a particular context. This is very useful is
describing a statement. Referencing is also very helpful in usage of information in assignment so
that it can be understood what has been understood and read from a particular topic which has to
be used in reliable management (York, Gibson and Rankin, 2015). References consists of
various elements such as name of author, publication date, name of book and location from
where it was published.
When a particular student references a article from internet then it becomes essential to
write its URL on referencing page below assignment. While assignment is being written and
there is arise of any argument then there occurs a need for a support which is referencing. This is
very helpful in identification of a source from where the student has used a particular
information in a particular assignment. This is also very crucial in understanding and having
knowledge about referencing of information. Citation basically consists of brackets which denote
date of publishing & name of author . There is also page number which are present in references
so that it becomes easy for teacher or a individual in gaining access to source from where
information has been extracted.
Presentation and the good elements
In context of presentation of academic skills this is a process which is used for
presentation of a particular topic to the target audience. This demonstrates a speech or a
introduction in order to convince the listeners (Holtyn, DeFulio and Silverman, 2015).
Presentation has to be in a particular format with help of collaboration. Presentation viewers is
also a tool which can be used in combing content of various sources from where the information
has been extracted and used in presentation. Some of very popular products of presentation
which are used across globe are offered by brands like google, Apple and Microsoft.
In case of academic report writing presentation presentation plays a very vital role in
improving quality of presentation. There should be a alignment ad proper lining of words. There
must also be proper spacing so that it is pleasant to eyes of person reading it. Marks are given to
a student based on presentation given by a student. Images, text and links must be provided

which will help in increasing quality of a presentation and also is very helpful in enhancement of
its impact on audience.
There should also be a sincerity in presentation and there must be communication to their
target audience a well defined manner (Kikas and Silinskas, 2016). There is a necessity of
effective presentation and a requirement of a good speaker so that there is effective presentation.
Overall design of presentation is very crucial especially in case of introduction & conclusion. It
is also essential to state a fact which is helping in providing depth information with regards to a
particular topic.

CONCLUSION
From above report it can be said that academic skills are very essential fir future growth
of a individual, every individual must posses such skills which vane help them in their
development as a individual. Also, it has been mentioned that there are various sources such as
trustable & untrustable which must be taken into consideration by a individual whenever a
information is taken from particular source. There is also a need that every individual must
always consider a particular source which is providing authentic information only and which can
be relied up on. This leads to increasing the quality of work done by a student may be in form of
writing, presentation or any speech whatever the case may be.

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