Enhancing Academic Skills and Developing Confidence in Learning

This assignment explores the development of academic skills and the cultivation of confidence in learning. It begins by emphasizing the importance of academic skills for future success and the role of resources in enhancing knowledge. The main body discusses the use of academic resources, including university libraries, online journals, and databases, to access reliable information. The assignment also highlights the significance of skill development sessions and motivational techniques in improving academic performance and concentration. It further covers the use of Google Scholar and Knowledge Net for accessing academic materials and the importance of proper citation formats. The conclusion reinforces the benefits of improved academic skills and the student's commitment to further development. The assignment references several books and journals to support the discussed concepts.

Academic skills
and studying with
confidence

Academic skills
INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are the approach which are applied to learning to the individuals as they
are essential to enhancing my skills in future(Ciesielski and et., al., 2019). Developing good
academic skills will help to achieve the academic success which reflects to the ability of the
individuals. Most of these skills are developed during this coursework for the future. The prime
objective of this project is the gain academic knowledge to gain confidence as per follow. Apart
from this, it provide detail information about reliable resources and to avoid unreliable
information. Beside this it also describe about authentic Harvard referencing style and how to
develop the presentation skills as to build confidence.
Main body:
Academic resources are useful for improving the knowledge and productivity. By reading
different kinds of generals and books will help my communication and reading skills. These are
made up of core attributes, which include problem solving skills, analytical abilities, critical
thinking which aid in improving the skills which is essential for better future. My university
provide online resources library where I have access to its printed resources such as books and
journal. This help to gain authentic data which help in improving my report making skills
effectively. Along with this, electronic journals and online database are the primarily for the use
for the use of different faculty and students to gain access to various information for improving
there knowledge and skills.
Further my university has increased the books and online Journals and they library is
putting input to increase the available funds to improve the academic needs of the students.
Newly arrival journals and magazines are available on the daily basis as they help in gathering
current information which is useful in my academic skills for betterment and growth. Along
there are different references file which help in me to prepare my project effectively and it will
help to find out the reliable resources effectively. For example in our class activity there was in
group activity in which tutor asked to gather information from the different reliable resources.
Hence I take assistance of online library where I had authentic sources which increasing the
efficiency of my project. Here are the authentic journals which I learnt today is given below:

Apart from this, my university had provided skill development session through YouTube
where I have learned to improve and focus on my academic skills for better future. The
motivator speaker was told about intrinsic motivation as this is long lasting and self
sustaining(Conger and et., al., 2019). This help me to put more efforts to gain more knowledge.
However there were different interactive session was provided by the university as to increase
the skills and make me future ready to face challenges and hurdles present in the marketplace.
This can be improved especially when it comes to gain skills with the assistance of
academic performance. It also improve my concentration in classroom projects and enhance the
discussion skills. Further the motivator provide various method and strategies to increase the
Illustration 1: authentic journal writing

academic performance effectively. Motivation affects how an individual pays attention to
specific information and attempts to understand the learning materials through experiences,
thoughts, ideas and senses rather than just going through the process of rote learning.
Through this the we become engaged in the group discussion and on the method to
improve the academic skills. All the group members were encouraged to as take participate in the
activity as to improve the productivity of the company. As this uplift my enthusiasm about how
to present the different aspect to enhance my skills as per the requirements.
From such kind of resources I have learned on this coursework how to increase
effectiveness to increase the communication method for achieving desire objectives effectively.
In this video the motivational speaker talks about the atmosphere of university. The finding
demonstrate about the finding how I interact with my classmates. Apart from there were the
different session about how to make general and academic reports properly to increase the
productivity of the carrying forward the research work.
At my course during the academic I learnt about using the academic sources with the help
of Google scholar and Knowledge net. These are the platform where I can get citation to

articles, reports, online books and other material which shows up online. Both of them have
helped me in figure out the scholar material with the wide variety of material. These allow users
to search different articles related to articles (Isbell and et., al., 2019). Further this, also provide
different sources in APA, Harvard and other format as per the need and requirements of student.
It provide me to get academic freedom and it also become easier to use more sophisticated search
engine and gives them the same result. There is different kind of citation has been used across
the references and assist me to complete my work effectively.
CONCLUSION
From the above conclusion this has been identified that with the help of academic skills i
have increased my ability and knowledge in my studies. Along with this, it has been cleared that
I need to improve my academic skills in order to gain good grades which can be beneficial for
my future. Furthermore this help me to have access to increase to ability to focus on my skills
and help me to make a better judgement effectively. I am excited to carry forward the direction
in which I can improve my skills for effective academic research.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Ciesielski and et., al., 2019. Academic skills groups for middle school children with ADHD in
the outpatient mental health setting: An open trial. Journal of attention
disorders, 23(4), pp.409-417.
Conger and et., al., 2019. The effect of advanced placement science on students’ skills,
confidence and stress. Journal of Human Resources, pp.0118-9298R3.
Cottrell, S., 2019. The study skills handbook. Macmillan International Higher Education.
Evans, S., Henderson, A. and Ashton-Hay, S., 2019. Defining the dynamic role of Australian
academic skills advisors. Higher Education Research & Development, 38(6), pp.1121-
1137.
Isbell and et., al., 2019. Longitudinal associations between conflict monitoring and emergent
academic skills: An event‐related potentials study. Developmental
psychobiology, 61(4), pp.495-512.
Ma, L.P.F., 2019. Academic writing support through individual consultations: EAL doctoral
student experiences and evaluation. Journal of Second Language Writing, 43, pp.72-
79.
O’Connor, M., Cloney, D., Kvalsvig, A. and Goldfeld, S., 2019. Positive mental health and
academic achievement in elementary school: new evidence from a matching
analysis. Educational Researcher, 48(4), pp.205-216.