University AS2: Reflection and Academic Skills Booklet for HSC

This homework assignment, titled AS2 Reflection and Academic Skills Booklet, showcases a student's understanding of various academic skills relevant to the Health and Social Care (HSC) field. The assignment begins with a mind-map on academic skills, emphasizing writing and research skills. It then delves into writing styles, using immigration as a case study, and paraphrasing on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The assignment includes reflections on citations, referencing, and plagiarism, highlighting the importance of authentic statements and correct referencing styles. It also covers synthesis on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and reflections on research, and evaluating a source related to BTB (Ban the Box). The assignment concludes with an exploration of conciseness and redundancy, emphasizing the importance of clear and concise writing. The document incorporates multiple academic skills and provides a comprehensive overview of key concepts in the HSC field.

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1. Academic Skill: Mind-map about academic skills
In order to deliver service within Health and Social Care setting it is essential for individual
to engage in devising mind-map regarding the academic skills that support the individual to gain
effective knowledge regarding the activities. The skills mainly focuses on writing skills that support
me in writing down the lectures notes that support me in performing effective activities within
health and social care. Another academic skills that is required by individual also include research
skills through which I can easily accumulate the relevant information and knowledge regarding the
topic.
2. Academic Skill: Writing Style about immigration
With the increasing immigrants within the UK results in increasing or raising the
employment opportunities within the region that results in enhancing the growth of the overall
economy. In the present environment UK only gain 4% of the EU asylum application that supports
the individual to sustain in the HSC unit. Along with this, it is also assessed that Syrian government
is agonizing their own residential people those who are immigrating from their own country. The
people are not migrating to make the more money but they need to overcome the other issues
related with improper health and security.
3. Academic Skill: Paraphrase about CSR
In the year 2011 the area called Cape Three Points (CTP) Ghana mainly focuses on
conducting the research so that they can easily meet the expectation of the people. The mainly
focuses gaining primary information regarding the social responsibilities regarding the area so that
it may ensure the development of the area so that it may easily assists in rendering quality life
within the society.
From the conducted research it was assessed that population was around 500 people that mainly
engage in the occupational activities of farm and fisheries. From the conducted research it was also
found that within the region there was no electricity nor they were having the portable drinking
water that results in impacting the health and well-being of the individual within the region.
Governments after governments come with all kind of promises during campaign time. Fleets of
vehicles come here, all in the name of trying to know our needs so that once they are elected in
power they will help the community to get easily develop.
4. Reflection: Citations, Referencing and Plagiarism
In order to engage in marking authentic statement within the report references and citation is
must needed. Therefore citation focuses on stating that the content has been taken from that site.
Along with this, it is also stated that there are different style of references that I can do within the
report that mainly include APA, Harvard etc. along with this, it is also stated that references support
the people are not migrating to make the more money but they need to overcome the other issues
related with improper health and security. The guide to correct referencing style can be approached
through different platforms like internet, video tutorials or certain examples from past reports and
researches.
It is quite important to inculcate references and citation while developing research works
because it provides readers a path through which authentic source of information can be accessed
(Gipp, Meuschke and Breitinger, 2014). Plagiarism is a proceeding where original ideas or works of
an individual are produced by other person as his own. It is important to conduct a plagiarism check
so that authenticity can be examined (Anderson, 2016).
5. Academic Skill: Synthesis on IMF
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In the year 1990 both the international organisation that is IMF (International Monetary Fund) and
WTO (World Trade organisation) has focused on began different policies that is commonly related
with promoting trade liberalization among different countries across the globe. Along with this,
policies related with encouraging the trade liberalization must also focuses on stating the loan
related condition while engaging with the borrowing nations or region. With the increasing scrutiny
among the different region it would consider as an effective way that support in enhancing the
economic condition of the region or nation to sustain in the global environment.
6. Reflection: What is research
Research is defined as inquiry or investigation that is conducted by the researcher in order to
complete the project or tasks in the effective and efficient manner. Along with this, it is also
critically evaluated that with the effective research researcher can easily accumulate the required
data and information that support in undertaking the research in effective and efficient manner.
Along with this, through enabling the research it also assists in engaging in the research. With the
help of condition conducting the research I can easily engage in the studying the material and
information regarding the topic or area that results in gaining the new conclusions.
7. Reflection: Evaluating a Source about BTB
The source used for this article of BTB is an online source that has a hyperlink to direct to
the website from which content has been referred. It is a reliable source and the information
provided is quite authentic and useful. There is no further information regarding author s or
publishers depicted. The nature of this source is new and valid with at most relevance to the topic.
The information in article and source are correlated. This online source can be used for further
reference while producing detailed article on BTB.
The purpose of this source is to inform readers about issue which is faced by prisoners while
opting for a job or during the recruitment process. The author is not biased but demonstrates the
perception of individuals while they undergo a recruitment drive. Both sides of the story have been
described in this article. Facts and opinions which have gathered in this assessment are helpful in
getting distinct knowledge about the concept of BTB.
8. Academic Skill: Conciseness and Redundancy
Conciseness is the quality writing skill which helps in delivering appropriate information
with least words and maximum meaning. It is a part of academic skill which needs to be imbibed
with education for betterment of speech. The accuracy of information that is to be communicated in
the prose must be maximum. It can be possible only when unnecessary words are eliminated.
Redundancy is the process which occurs when companies or organisation head decides to decrease
workforce because of abundance of irrelevant skill. Costs cutting process of a company is
considered as redundancy.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Anderson, R., 2016. The difference between copyright infringement and plagiarism-and why it
matters. ACORN: The Journal of Perioperative Nursing in Australia. 29(4). p.50.
Gipp, B., Meuschke, N. and Breitinger, C., 2014. Citation‐based plagiarism detection: Practicability
on a large‐scale scientific corpus. Journal of the Association for Information Science and
Technology. 65(8). pp.1527-1540.
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