Developing Academic Skills Module: Time Management and Diary

This assignment delves into the development of essential academic skills, focusing on time management, note-taking, and essay writing. The student created a detailed study timetable, incorporating various time management techniques and recording actual time spent on different activities and commitments. The assignment also includes a reflective diary entry, analyzing the student's learning experiences, strengths, and weaknesses. Furthermore, it addresses the importance of upholding academic integrity, avoiding plagiarism, and correctly referencing sources using the AU Harvard referencing system. The content also discusses the role of lecturers and students in academic skills development and includes a section on climate change as a case study.

Developing Academic Skills

TABLE OF CONTENT
TABLE OF CONTENT.....................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................3
TASK ONE ....................................................................................................................................................3
Creation of study timetable that cover duration of module and apply time management techniques,
contain record of time taken or spent and other commitments.............................................................3
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3.........................................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................................10
REFERNCES................................................................................................................................................11

NTRODUCTION
Academic skills are independent study skills such as numerical, note taking and writing
skills that helps student to learn new things in order to get better employment or job in future
career. Lecturer or teachers assist student about the way or methods that student can used to
enhance their academic skills in order to achieve higher growth and success in professional life.
This report is related to academic skills module that has contained timetable, time management
techniques and record of actual time taken and other commitment. It has also included a write a
diary that contained reflection of me such as what I have learnt, felt, strength and weakness of
me etc. At last it has explained about way to uphold academic integrity, avoid plagiarism and
reference correctly using AU Harvard referencing.
TASK ONE
Creation of study timetable that cover duration of module and apply time management
techniques, contain record of time taken or spent and other commitments
Every successful student requires to develop academic skills in order to gain learn several
things, concept or knowledge in limited time and outshine itself from others. Teachers and
student are working together for development of academic skills so that student can have bright
future ahead. Therefore, I have planned to work on my existing academic skills in order to
achieve higher success so timetable related to developing academic skills module is as follows:
Time Activities
7:00 A.M. Waking up
7:30 A.M Do exercise and meditation in order to have fresh
mind to learn thing
8 A.M. Breakfast
8:15 – 8:30 A.M. Read newspaper to have current knowledge
9:00 – 11:00 A.M. Working on my module
11:00- 11:30 A.M. Use phone to see message or use social media.
12 – 2 P.M. Work on my module and academic skills

2 P.M. Have lunch
2:30 – 3:30 P.M. Take rest
3:30 – 4 P.M. Have some snack
4 – 6 P.M. Continue my study
6 – 7:30 P.M. Go out and have fun with my friends
7:30- 8 P.M. Have dinner
8:30 P.M. Take a walk and listen to music
8:30 – 10:00 P.M. Study time
10:00 – 10:30 P.M. Check social media
11 P.M. Sleep
So, it the time table that has been made in order to organized my key activities so that
necessary academic skills can be developed and time can be effectively managed. The time table
has clearly specific my rest time, having food and snacks and my study time that could be helpful
in developing skills and growth of me in future career.
Skills Time management
techniques
Record of time
spent
Other commitments
Note – taking skills:
It is ability of student
to write important
point dictated by
lecturer in note book
for future use in order
to give answer of
examination paper.
Many of the student
like me find difficult
in making note or
writing main points in
Be focused will be
best time
management
technique that I
would be using in
order to note
necessary point while
lecturer is teaching
about specific
subject. I will try to
avoid distraction and
keep my mind with
I will try to practice
note taking skills at
least two- three times
in day with spending
around 20 minutes or
till the lecturer
continue.
At the same time I
want to make
commitment to
myself that I will
avoid having fun and
entertainment with
my friends in
classroom when
lecturer is teaching us
important topic that
has possibility of
coming in

short so that they can
remind easily in
future. Therefore, I
have decided to
included note taking
academic skills in
time table to further
improve to enhance
my existing skills.
whatever is taught by
lecturer so that no
crucial point can be
missed at any cost
(Okrasinski, 2020).
examination.
Essay writing: It is
another skills that I
have decide to be
included in timetable
or module of
academic
development skills as
University student are
also facing challenges
related to writing
academic essay as
they are using same
method of essay that
they used in high
school. Each essay is
of different types so
student must be
aware of the way
particular essay need
to be written.
Therefore, I has
decided to improve
Overcome
Procrastination using
4DSystem is time
management
technique that would
be used in order to
enhance my essay
writing skills. Such as
firstly I will delete all
unnecessary task or
activities so that I can
focused on more on
improving my writing
skills. In case it
cannot be delete than
I will find alternative
individuals that can
perform it. Do it now:
I will tried to devote
my time to learn
essay writing
regularly rather than
Overall 20-25
minutes I will be
spending on
improving my essay
writing skills so that I
can able to write
correct and valuable
content as per type of
essay (Jamieson,
2019.).
I made commitment
to myself that rather
than spending time
with family or having
leisure I would tried
to devote some of the
time in developing
essay writing skills in
order to attain my
objectives in limited
time frame.

my essay writing
skills to get good
grade.
doing other things.
Reading and
understanding
information:
Maximum number of
student tries to avoid
reading and
understanding
information or text
material. So reading
at university level
require student to
understand the way
they need to read and
pronounce particular
sentence and
understand the
information in similar
sense (Moir, 2016).
They should be aware
of form where or
who, when and how
material has been
wrote therefore in
order to learn all such
skills I have planned
to work on my
reading and
Setting priority is
time management
technique that I have
decide to pursue in
order to build my
reading and
understanding
information skills.
Such that I will
decide task that need
to be completed first
or priority basis. Thus
among all of them
complete the task that
are prioritised first
and then spent other
time in improving my
reading and
understanding
information skills.
I will devote at least
½ hours to read
books, find sources
from which they have
taken, when and why
written and its
importance in order
to effectively
understand them
(Khan and et.al.,
2017).
I have made
commitment to
regularly read at least
2-3 pages of books in
order to developing
reading habit in
myself.

information skills.
TASK 2
There are various aspects within enable academic skills which enable study and learning
to be profoundly strongly bring forward best metrics of larger informative diversity of scenarios
for gaining stronger goal advancement, to enhance new goal widely for keeping up effective
performance related efficacy. Lecturer plays high role of importance to train students with useful
resources and skills as analyzed within developing specific general skills, abilities to transform
stringent performance goals widely
Lecturer: Academic skills have strong role to enhance stronger working vision among students
within their professions and working scenarios for gaining larger new growth efficacy aspects, to
yield on higher informative growth within longer run.
Student: YES, we all are excited to gain informative knowledge based on varied new domains of
efficacy and also be trained on various sources widely (Rose, Curle and Thompson, 2019).
Lecturer: I am happy to see your excitement and hope to see you all gain various knowledge
based on various scenarios, which will enable you to gain dynamic skills informatively and be
stronger in gaining performance evolved parameters. We will be using various websites as online
study materials and notepads to record all information, teachings learned from various sources
for technical diversity within performances.
Student: Yes, professor, we keenly look forward to be attentive towards lectures and also attain
various targets informatively within course for having stronger business focused innovative ideas
and also productively be motivated to bring on efficacy among performance horizons.
Teacher: You all need to bring notepads and stationary for keeping up the records active for all
information attained among studies, be attentive among study lessons and also further be
competent to learn various other informative knowledge.

Student: Yes, we all are excited and look forward to attend all lectures from tomorrow for
learning various subject’s knowledge which will enable us to attain higher advanced diverse
learnings from various fields.
B) Diary
10th December, 2020
Dear diary
The module learning made me very confident to learn various skills and synergy of informative
experiences and larger scale efficacy for wider informational horizons pertaining varied
knowledge to potentially be competent and largely innovative for keen targets within
academics. While working journey of learning academic skills I was highly confident,
functionally competent and strongly looking forward to attaining various smart knowledge
Further, I was confident towards diversity of subjects and skills which we will be exploring
during lectures and be strongly looking forward to attaining higher informative growth,
innovative learning opportunities to yield higher growth efficacy among commercial
professional subjects which will enable me to be attentive towards varied future opportunities
(Son, Choi and Kwon, 2019) .
From the learning module, I identified that I possessed strong communication as well as time
management skills that helps me to attained the defined aim within specific tenure. Apart from
this, I also analyzed that I possessed strong analytical skills which helps me to make decision.
Through the module, I also examined that I faced issues with regard to use of reliable and
informational and this in turn shows that I possess low research skills for various subjects.
Therefore, I analyzed that I enhanced my learning and this provides me an opportunity to
improve mu knowledge as well as skills. \
For studying on future horizons i aim to be active on digital platforms for studies, which will
enable me to search various aspects within diverse arenas and also productively be competent
and strongly productive for higher informative growth parameters. I was able to enhance
various aspects of gaining functional diversity within various subjects, as keenly various new
domains were introduced to us by our lecturers in studies. Therefore, in near future, I ensured to
learn in more depth regarding each topic so that it will assist me to improve knowledge and

meet the defined aim. As I possess low research skills and to improve the same, I start working
and search topic through key points that helps me to study in more effective manner near future.
The entire module helps me to enhance the learning and gain new experiences which in turn
assists me to complete the defined aim. Further, I have also concluded that I identified some
strength as well as weaknesses, which should be improved so that it do not cause negative
impact upon my performance.
(C) During the first weeks of module training I was able to learn varied competent of reliable
and credible informational aspects based on functional enhanced knowledge efficacy operations
which have broadened my working horizons for academic excellence. There has been constant
development of enhanced working vision within my studies and also for keen new determinants
for higher informative growth where all resources were highly reliable and credible. The sources
also made me confident to learn varied knowledge to experiences within my professional
horizons, for being highly comfortable within academics (Alipichev and Takanova, 2020).
TASK 3
Source 1
In this dynamic world, climate change is really a serious concern, because it is very badly
affecting the human civilization. According to Ayegba, day by day the levels of climate change
is increasing, and if responsible authorities of the world not take appropriate steps towards
dealing with this issue of climate change, then the entire world, its people, animals and birds etc.
cannot able to live on the earth. Currently global warming is the main issue which has been
developed just because of climate change. Currently there are many factors exists in our society
which highly promotes the climate change. For example; industrialization is one of key reasons
behind the climate change, because currently there are thousands of industries exists in the
market place which releases very harmful gages and smoke (Ayegba,2018). However,
governments of different countries have taken steps towards stopping the climate change or
example; government of has formulated strict role different companies or people for not produce
and use such vehicles in daily operations which releases very harmful smoke. Ayegba said that

there are glaciers also melts continuously due to climate change, and this is why the levels of
oceans are also increasing. These all factors are not favorable to the human civilization as well as
animals and birds. In this modern world, people should be motivated to work in the welfare of
natural environment, because this is very necessary to stop the issue of climate change. For
example; currently many organizations are planting trees for fulfilling their obligation of
corporate social responsibility, and this is really a positive thing.
SOURCE 2
Academic database reference used has been highly informative to evolve within new functional
scenarios for larger scope horizons, to be competent and also for gaining reliable information
within varied aspects and also be primitively innovative on varied horizons. The source use has
informatively explained climate change scenarios widely for gaining functional records widely,
also to gain larger determinants on new scope paradigms and also be largely focused on for
gaining stronger diversity It can be also analyzed that climate change now detectable from any
single day of weather at global scale has been identified as highly essential aspect, which will
enable to gain knowledge among working horizons for larger scale functional knowledge. It can
be also understood that source profoundly generates informative diversity within professional
studies to analyze functional growth diversity and new hemispheres of studies for climate change
and how new world needs to take strong steps towards it. It can be also analyzed that by bringing
forward in depth analysis of resources individuals are able to be competent and productively
divergent for larger work growth efficacy within working scenarios, be functionally potent to
learn varied knowledge. Source and referencing enables project reporting within academic to be
largely associated with correct informative aspect, be potentially active on varied horizons and
also be active for learning varied new work growth studies (Tapley and et.al, 2019).
SOURCE 3
The online source enables us to gain productive information directly form author articles where
new profound researched information can be used for further analysis, and also keep active focus
to learn new varied aspects for being competently active towards leveraging higher strategic
understanding. It can be also analyzed that online sourcing enables business competencies to
functionally bring on keen measures under focus, leverage higher informative data based on
climate change which is highly reliable and credible. The online citations also enable

performances in individuals to be enhanced widely, on keen targets and functionally bring
forward new targets towards larger scenarios, It can be also understood that there are varied
competencies attached within referencing of subjects, where online sourcing enables business
competencies to be developed highly. The effects of global warming has been specifically
analyzed within this where we can in detail analyze varied horizons of informative data to keep
up functional strength of information and also pertain larger focus for gaining strategic
understanding within new scope efficacy. Online sourcing enables students within academic
studies to be active towards potential training forward on new subjects, higher keen efficacy
targets and also to yield larger vision oriented growth towards climate change (Global climate
change: What you need to know, 2017).
CARP test
Contributions of
GRACE to
understanding
climate change
(Journal)
Soil microbiomes
and climate change
(Journal)
Global Climate
change: What you
need to know
(Online)
Currency
1. When was the
information
published or posted?
2019 2020 2017
2. Has the
information been
revised or updated?
When?
No t As the article is
current so it provides
accurate results
There is a revision
because the data
gathered from old
information
3. Does your topic
require current
information, or will
older sources work
as well?
Required current
information
Yes, it required
current information as
it helps to provide
accurate data
As the article is older
so it requires current
information
4. Websites – are the
links functional?
The PDF is
downloaded easily
Yes No error of
downloading