Reflective Report: BUS3003 Academic Skills Development and Practice

This report provides a reflective overview of the academic skills developed during the BUS3003 module, focusing on information skills, planning/writing skills, and IT skills. The report highlights the successful implementation of various tasks such as referencing, brainstorming, and using IT tools, while also acknowledging areas needing improvement, including evaluating source credibility, maintaining academic integrity, and refining introduction/conclusion writing. The importance of these skills in both academic and professional life is emphasized, with a focus on planning/writing skills as crucial for future degree studies. An action plan is outlined to address the identified lacking areas, specifying required resources, time duration, and evaluation methods. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wealth of study resources for students.

BUS3003 Academic Skills
Practice

Table of Contents
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REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

MAIN BODY
The academic skills that I’ve developed studying this module includes information skills,
planning/writing skill and IT skills. In learning the above skills, I was able to understand very
well that I need to identify the books/journal/websites, avoid plagiarism and use references using
AU Harvard and the resultant citation of these references in the information skills (Rose and
et.al., 2020). In planning/writing skills, activities like brainstorming of ideas, planning the work,
reflective writing and paraphrasing went really well and was very interesting to do. IT skills
included the most interesting tasks which has all gone well like navigating, iLearn to look for the
required resources, using of search engines, creating of word documents and using power point.
In learning the above skills, certain tasks were complicated and did not go well as
compared to other tasks. In the information skills, evaluating the credibility of the sources and
maintenance of the academic integrity are the tasks which didn’t go so well and I need to work
on these tasks more. In planning/writing skills, writing of introduction and conclusion and
informal & academic writing did not go so well as these were based on general ideas and thus
lacked interest and therefore, will need more efforts now from my end.
The studying of academic skills which included information skills in which I learnt how
to do referencing and the respective citation, how to identify the books/journal/websites, how to
avoid plagiarism, etc. Planning/writing skills in which I learnt how to brainstorm the ideas, how
to plan the work to be written, how to paraphrase, how to do reflective writing, etc. IT skills in
which I learnt how to navigate iLearn, how to user search engines, how to create the word
documents and how to use Power Point (Amini and Samani, 2021). I came to know the
importance of having these skills in the academic as well as professional life. In the academic
life I felt more in control with my studies, I am better organised than I was earlier and had and
have the confidence of facing new challenges as I progress further towards my degree and
professional career.
In my view, the most important action and skill that I will be taking forward to Year 1 of
my degree programme is planning/writing skills. This is because the studies in the degree
programme will require brainstorming of new ideas time to time and also I will have to plan how
I will be writing my work (Van Rooij, Jansen and van de Grift, 2018). Summarising of ideas will
also be required along with reflective, informal and academic writing.

LACKING AREA RESOURCES
REQUIRED
TIME DURATION EVALUATION
Evaluation of
credibility of sources
List of credible sources,
time period of such
sources and
books/journals/websites.
1 – 2 days. By verifying the
credibility of the
sources used.
Maintaining
academic integrity
Books/journals on such
integrity and guidance
from the teachers &
professors.
3 – 5 days. By monitoring the
progress in through
results and
benchmarks.
Introduction and
conclusion
Samples of such
introduction and
conclusion and
questions for practice.
5 – 7 days. By taking suggestions
from the teachers &
professors.
Informal and
academic writing
Samples of such writing
and questions for
practice.
7 – 10 days. By comparing from
the benchmarked
writings and looking
for deficiencies.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Amini, S. and Samani, S., 2021. Causal modeling of student social support, academic skills and
academic self-efficacy. Biannual Journal of Applied Counseling. 11(1). pp.1-20.
Rose, H. and et.al., 2020. What drives success in English medium taught courses? The interplay
between language proficiency, academic skills, and motivation. Studies in Higher
Education. 45(11). pp.2149-2161.
Van Rooij, E., Jansen, E. P. and van de Grift, W. J., 2018. First-year university students’
academic success: the importance of academic adjustment. European Journal of
Psychology of Education. 33(4). pp.749-767.
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