Study Skills for Higher Education: Reading and Writing Report

This report delves into the critical role of reading and writing competence in higher education, highlighting their significance for student productivity and effectiveness. The analysis identifies various approaches and tactics students employ to enhance their reading comprehension and improve the quality of their written projects. The report provides recommendations on how students can improve their reading skills, such as understanding the meaning of each word, using dictionaries, engaging in group discussions, and breaking down reading materials into smaller sections. It also offers strategies to improve writing skills, including enhancing writing skills, utilizing simple language, creating outlines, and joining workshops. The report concludes that by adopting these strategies, students can successfully improve their reading and writing skills, leading to enhanced academic performance. The references include books, journals, and online resources that support the findings.

STUDY SKILLS FOR HIGHER
EDUCATION

Abstract-
Reading and writing competence are playing role for every student, it helped them to be
productive and effective students. From overall discussions, it has been identified that learners
are taking varied actions and follow approaches in term of suggestions which has provided
positive outcomes to them in term of improved quality of their written projects and reading
ability.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................4
ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF QUESTIONS ...............................................................................................4
RECOMMENDATIONS..................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Study skill brings a lot of benefits for the students in varied terms, for example, it help to
get high scores during period of higher education. The current study will clarify some tactics that
a student can utilize to improve their reading competence. Furthermore, the report will describe
possible recommendations that will help learners to improve quality of their written projects.
ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION OF QUESTIONS
Reading abilities are those skills that a student or other people acquired through reading a
book, novels and articles (Wong and et.al., 2017). It made person able to give clear and
appropriate meaning to turn sentences on a page. It can be analyzed that reading ability play vital
role in career growth and success of learners. It defined as capability to comprehend long
sentence appropriately and successfully. It best things about reading skill is that it help to
increasing knowledge level in effective manner. Without improving this ability, a students may
not be able to achieve their aims related to academic career. There are varied forms of
approaches and strategies available in education world that learners can utilized to improve their
reading competence in systematic manner, which is beneficial for them in the future.
Understand the meaning of each word-
Students can improve their reading skill by choosing and using appropriate tactics. For
example, they may start comprehend actual meaning of each word, especially those which are
not easy to understand (Anwar, 2019). By understanding the real meaning of varied words, a
student can make their reading competence even better than last few years or months. It can be
analyzed that students get continuous projects or assessments during their academic career, for
which great extent of reading and writing skills are required. Without improving reading skill,
they cannot be able to write an assessment in presentable way. Furthermore, scholars may get
benefits when they take initiative to understand sentence, as it help them to read whole paragraph
easily. It lets them able to comprehend words which in return improve reading skill. It can be
said that word comprehension improves reading competence when a student known what word
mean.
Use dictionary-

Many students adopt different types of tactics in order to improve varied skills and
develop their competences. In context of reading ability, they can use dictionary to take support
during reading process. It can be examine that maximum use of dictionary allow a scholar to
improve their reading and vocabulary (Tulgar, 2017). Majority of students gets benefits of
dictionary use in term of improving reading and learning vocabulary. Dictionaries can be
actually quite useful for students as they may utilize it while reading a book, notes or novel
because it assist them to find out right meaning of words that students don’t know. It make
reading so easier than ever before in context of learners. They may buy a dictionary that presents
several synonyms of single word, which is quite good for them.
Group discussion based on each assignment-
Along with above two tactics, students can consider current one in order to improve
reading skill which allow them to get more benefits including existing during academic duration.
According to this strategy, a scholar can make a discussion with their group member or class
mates which made them able to improve reading skill more than few weeks or months. They can
discuss and consider suggestions of other people who are better in reading (Siregar, Harida and
Zainuddin, 2020). Students can ask them a few questions related to module or subject. Learners
can improve this ability by taking advice of other people. This strategy is quite beneficial for
students in varied terms for example it help to improve reading ability and also contribute to
improve coordination between group members. Group discussion provide many benefits, just
like all above.
Break up reading into smaller sections-
It can be analyzed that many students are reading longer paragraph which make their
understanding weaker. They can break paragraph or complex text into smaller section or part,
which is beneficial in term of improving reading competence (6 Techniques for Building
Reading Skills—in Any Subject, 2016). When students reading two paragraphs at one time, they
need to pause entire process and then start breaking into small parts. By breaking up what they
are reading can help scholars feel less overwhelmed and provide a better opportunity to truly
understand current information given in a book. It is one of the most common tactics that many
students has adopted during higher education and academic period. It makes books and novels

reading much easy and simple for students which also enable them to pass out exams with high
scores or marks.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Each student during academic period or while getting higher education get chance to
write an assessment, which is quite essential for them (Wagge and et.al., 2019). They write
projects based on specific topics which allow them to gain knowledge about those subjects,
which they never get before. Writing a project is quite difficult task for scholars, for which they
use writing as well as reading skills. Learner can get high grades via write varied projects based
on several topics. They can find out better options and use appropriate methods to improve
quality of their written assessments.
 Students write many projects that present their writing skills and knowledge about
particular topic. They can improve quality of project writing by improving writing skills,
which is quite useful and beneficial for longer period (Wanner and Palmer, 2018).
Students can do so by reading as much as they can, it help to understand questions and
then enable a scholar to write project appropriately.
 Furthermore, they can consider other approaches as well in context of improving quality
of writing a project. For instance, scholars can utilize simple language that made project
writing easy and boost the speed of a scholar more than they had from last weeks or
months. By choosing simple language they can understand topic and gather information
about it, which in return present a presentable project, which students can submit and
then obtain high marks. It is one of the best approaches that a student can use to improve
ability of their written assessments given by tutor at particular university.
 Students can consider other suggestions as well along with above two, for example, they
can write down a structure and outline before starting project writing. With the help of
this way, they can improve quality in context of written assessment in effective and
systematic manner. Scholars can write outline and then start main content where each
information is taken by them is appropriate and relevant to chosen topic. Writing an
project in English and under languages is not that simple for any one, it needs better
understanding, reading competence and usage of other academic skills.

 Bulk of learners take initiative to improve their project writing quality during academic
career, which help them in the future when they work as employee within well a reputed
firm. In recent time, the most trending and beneficial approach that many of them are
using is workshop joining, where experienced holder are available and teach how to write
assessments in presentable manner including data which relevant to topic. By joining
workshops, a learner can improve their ability or quality in effective manner, which is
quite beneficial and helpful in the future in term of preparing a presentation. Becoming a
part of workshops, scholars can to what they want and achieve what they seek to get for
longer period. Decision relate to joining a writing workshop can immensely appropriate
and a fun activity. They don’t need to unfinished book hidden away in their desk drawer
to join this session. In today’s period, due to technology advancement most of the tutors
are taking online class and providing their valuable suggestions to those students who are
interested to improve quality of their written assessments.
 A student who is interested in online sessions can join online classes or workshop to meet
minded writers and listen to them actively. It can also be called visual learning, where
learners and tutors can see each other and understand expectations, which made them
able to take further actions accordingly. Just like above approaches and techniques this
one is quite good as it help to save time and money as well. It is appropriate for those
who are unable to spent extra fee for gaining knowledge about skills improvement/
development as it is a cost effective and time saving method.
CONCLUSION
By summing up above analysis, it has been summarize that by considering appropriate
strategies and techniques, students has successfully improved their reading capability, which
enabled them to ready more important topics to boost knowledge and make mind sharp.
Furthermore, from above discussion, it has been identified that by improving reading ability,
students has also improved their written competence via effective approaches which made them
able to write an assessment and present in presentable manner.

REFERENCES
Book and Journals
Anwar, A.K., 2019. The Effect of Collaborative Strategic Reading Toward Students Reading
Skill. Anglophile Journal. 1(1). pp.21-28.
Siregar, Z.F., Harida, E.S. and Zainuddin, Z., 2016. Small Group Discussion For The Students’
Reading Comprehension Of The Senior High School Students. Tazkir:
Jurnal Penelitian Ilmu-ilmu Sosial dan Keislaman. 6(1). pp.147-158.
Tulgar, A.T., 2017. Dictionary Use of Undergraduate Students in Foreign Language Departments
in Turkey at Present. Universal Journal of Educational Research. 5(n12B).
pp.51-57.
Wagge, J.R. and et.al., 2019. Publishing research with undergraduate students via replication
work: The collaborative replications and education project. Frontiers in
psychology. 10. p.247.
Wanner, T. and Palmer, E., 2018. Formative self-and peer assessment for improved student
learning: the crucial factors of design, teacher participation and feedback.
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. 43(7). pp.1032-1047.
Wong, S.W. and et.al., 2017. Graphic novel comprehension among learners with differential
cognitive styles and reading abilities. Reading & Writing Quarterly. 33(5).
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