Portfolio Assessment: FY026 Module, Knowledge and Creativity, 2019-20

This portfolio presents a collection of work completed by a student during the FY026 module, "Preparing for Success at University: Knowledge and Creativity." The portfolio includes twelve pieces of work, each demonstrating the development of key academic skills. These include reflective learning, research skills, mind mapping, referencing and plagiarism awareness, sentence construction, capitalization, reading improvement, presentation skills, critical thinking, academic keywords, time management, and academic writing. Each section of the portfolio contains the student's work, such as worksheets, presentations, and reflections on their learning process, along with a rationale for the inclusion of each piece. The portfolio aims to showcase the student's ability to understand and apply academic concepts, improve their skills, and prepare for success in higher education. The summary provides an overview of the portfolio's content, including the student's reflections on the value of each skill and how it contributes to their overall academic development.

Portfolio

Table of Content
Table of Content..............................................................................................................................2
WORK ONE....................................................................................................................................1
Reflective Learning.....................................................................................................................1
WORK TWO...................................................................................................................................2
Research Skills.............................................................................................................................2
WORK THREE...............................................................................................................................3
Mind mapping..............................................................................................................................3
WORK FOUR.................................................................................................................................4
Referencing and avoiding plagiarism..........................................................................................4
WORK FIVE...................................................................................................................................5
Help with sentence construction..................................................................................................5
WORK SIX......................................................................................................................................6
Using capital letters.....................................................................................................................6
WORK SEVEN...............................................................................................................................7
Improving reading.......................................................................................................................7
WORK EIGHT................................................................................................................................8
Presentation..................................................................................................................................8
WORK NINE...................................................................................................................................9
Critical thinking...........................................................................................................................9
WOR K TEN.............................................................................................................................10
Academic keywords...................................................................................................................10
WORK ELEVEN...........................................................................................................................11
Time Management.....................................................................................................................11
WORK TWELVE..........................................................................................................................12

Academic Writing......................................................................................................................12
Summary of Portfolio content...................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

WORK ONE
Reflective Learning
This work is the essential piece of homework that was set by our teacher. This bit of making is a
reflection on the primary exercise of our course. It was a preface to canny learning. To complete
this bit of work we expected to remember the previous two exercises and consider what we
understood; how supportive it has been; what new information we understood and with
everything taken into account, how we felt about the activity. This on a very basic level is
insightful learning. By Thinking back on the previous two exercises I had the alternative to
survey my experience and discover zones of my finding that I need to made and I found a bit of
my quality which could be moreover advanced. One of the key reasons that I picked this bit of
forming is in light of the fact that it is the primary homework that I achieved for this course and
my first effort to think about my learning (Hammami and et. al., 2019).
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WORK TWO
Research Skills
Finishing research is a noteworthy bit of this business the board course. I am amped up for
working up my investigation capacities considering the way that having research aptitude is
essential for this course. I have picked this power point presentation since it has given me
information into business investigate; how exploration is done and the sorts of examination there
are. To finish a productive examination steps that I ought to follow. I took in the differentiation
between applied exploration and major examination. I in like manner took in the different sorts
of data variety. I in like manner made sense of how to do composing review. Composing study is
critical exceptionally if I have to swear off lounging around inactively on attempting to
rediscovery something that has recently been found by various authorities (Omari, Mwita and
Gichuhi, 2018).
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WORK THREE
Mind mapping
Mind mapping is a sort of incredible note talking. In the occasion that has allowed me to all the
more promptly grasp and partner considerations around a central subject. In spite of the way that,
this bit of forming is about scholarly burglary yet it isn't the essential inspiration driving why I
chose to move this to my portfolio. I picked this bit of work in light of the fact that the strategy
that I used has made it significantly easier for me to interface musings and follow how they are
associated. This capacity that I have made will later on help me to isolate puzzled contemplations
and thoughts by starting from a central idea and fanning outwards to sub-branches and sub-
focuses. By using this cerebrum mapping I found that I can be continuously sifted through and it
helps with my memory (Beckers and et. al., 2019).
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WORK FOUR
Referencing and avoiding plagiarism
Referencing and plagiarism is a subject that I come to focus on since starting my school
considers. I chose to move this power point presentation onto my portfolio since getting some
answers concerning this subject has made me esteem that there are heaps of ways that I can use
created by others and still keep up a key good ways from composed adulteration. From this
presentation I found that even the people who don't intend to duplicate can get rebuffed; this is
called accidental composed distortion. It can happen when understudies don't take care with their
reference or disregard to sum up precisely (Klein-Collins and Hudson, 2018). I moreover found
that there are various situations where referencing isn't required for example: using my own
experiences; making something that is standard data, etc.
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WORK FIVE
Help with sentence construction
This worksheet is a guide on the most capable technique to construct a sentence. Having a nice
perception of this subject is fundamental in case I have to win at this level of study. I have
decided to keep a copy of this worksheet on my portfolio since understanding the rules of
sentences is from a general perspective to keeping up a key good ways from botches. I took in a
lot by working on this worksheet - The association is especially clear and it is very simple to
understand. Because of managing this worksheet, I have made sense of how to shorten my
sentences. Over all I mull over this subject was useful and I think what I have acknowledged in
this activity will benefit me in my future assessments (Händel, Wimmer and Ziegler, 2020).
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WORK SIX
Using capital letters
This worksheet is connected to using capital letters precisely. It is a basic worksheet for this level
of study or so I thought. I chose to move this worksheet to my portfolio since it includes
precisely that it is so normal to disregard to use capital letters in their right spots. After the
worksheet was checked, I was flabbergasted to find that I fail to use barely any capital letters. I
misconstrued them not because I didn't have the foggiest thought however since I was not taking
remarkable thought in my work. This kind of straightforward slip-ups can lose me stamps in
assignments that issue. Resulting to picking up from my avoidable blunders, I as of now make
with care remarkably concerning my capital letters (Caccioli, Kondor and Papp, 2018).
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WORK SEVEN
Improving reading
One of the primal reasons that I have picked this present is in light of the fact that it has help me
with working up my getting capacities. To have impelled examining capacities is fundamental at
this level of studies. Scrutinizing capacities is huge for cutting edge training. This bit of work is a
present named 'improving your examining'. There are various ways to deal with examine;
specifically skimming and sifting. From this work I learned I don't need to scrutinize the entire
substance to find the information that I am scanning for. I found that before I start scrutinizing, it
is perfect to at first perceive what information that I have to expel from the substance that I am
examining. At the point when I perceive what information that I need, it is less complex to find
information. I have used the capacities that I picked up from this work on different occasions I
have made sense of how to scrutinize at a significantly fast pace (Golz, 2018).
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WORK EIGHT
Presentation
Having significant introduction capacities is major with being successful for my examinations
just as for the universe of work and past. Presentation is essentially bestowing an arrangement to
a horde of individuals. One of the crucial clarifications I chose to move this power point slid is in
light of the fact that I have adjusted such an incredible sum for example: what is visual guide and
how to use it to have most outrageous impact. I found that correspondence isn't just about the
giving a talk yet fuses: your non-verbal correspondence, your position and the tone of your
voice. From this activity I have taken in the principal fixings to give a fruitful presentation. It has
given me a foundation whereupon I can make and hone my presentation aptitudes. Being
nervous before a talk is common and with preparing it will get sensible; these are one of the
various bits of information that I take from this activity (Lincove, Cowen and Imbrogno, 2018).
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WORK NINE
Critical thinking
We live in an information age, where information is ample. As an understudy of cutting edge
instruction, I have developed the aptitudes to think on a very basic level and not to recognize all
information at face regard. I have taken in the six basic steps to survey information. This was
abbreviated into REVIEW which speaks to: Relevance, Expertise, Viewpoint, Intended group,
Evidence and When appropriated. This has made it less difficult to review the information.
Mulling over this subject has helped me improved as an evaluator of information and consider
the substance and unpick what the makers point and focuses are and examination any uneven
information that may be accessible the substance (Lam, 2018).
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