Improving Reading and Writing Skills in Higher Education Report

This report delves into effective strategies for students in higher education to enhance their reading and writing skills. It begins by outlining various techniques to improve reading ability, such as predicting content, skimming, using signposting language, reading for gist, and employing scanning strategies. The report then provides detailed suggestions for improving the quality of written projects, including the importance of feedback, critical thinking, clear structure, and the use of sufficient resources and proper referencing. It emphasizes the need for students to continuously refine their skills and knowledge through reading and research to foster their career growth and adapt to the challenges of a competitive academic environment. The report concludes by highlighting the significance of both reading and writing skills and recommends continuous skill enhancement through various resources.

STUDY SKILLS FOR
HIGHER EDUCATION

Table of Contents
ABSTRACT ....................................................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION...................................................................................................3
Strategies to improve reading ability ..........................................................................................3
Suggestion to improve quality or written projects.......................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

ABSTRACT
It is being very essential on the part of the individual to account to continuously learning of new
skills and abilities to survive in highly competitive environment where it has briefed on strategies
to improve upon the reading ability with various suggestion to improve upon the quality of
writing the projects and assignments of the students.
INTRODUCTION
Continuous learning and development of new skills and talents lead with the individual to foster
there career growth in positive and favourable manner and account with adapting to various
challenging task and support various dynamics that they account to face. The report brief on
various strategies that students can use to improve there reading ability and will provide
suggestions that will help students to the quality of there written projects which helps to
achieving there goals in life.
MAIN BODY
ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
Strategies to improve reading ability
There are various strategies which can account to improve the reading ability of the
students where by it accounts to adopt strategies where one can account with strategies such as
Predicting content reading strategy which could be completely new for the students which
allows students to use information from titles, text, headings, picture and diagrams which will
help in anticipating what further will happen when they start reading to a content. When making
out prediction, students envision what will come next in text which is being based upon their
prior knowledge. This strategy encourages students to think actively ahead and account to ask

questions. It helps in understanding the content better and to make the connection of what they
are being reading and the interaction with the text information. Making prediction is a important
strategy to improve the reading comprehensions where students are able to make prediction
based on the assumptions of what they have read, seen or heard before which helps, in making
prediction (Ingram, 2020).
Skimming reading strategy is next method to improve upon reading abilities as it helps in
focusing on main text and ideas. Skimming is extracting the essence of authors main messages
rather than accounting with finer points which helps in giving the crisp of what the author has
stated in the text, blogs or the articles which accounts with saving lot of time on reading wide
variety of things and accounting to highlight the big picture or main idea which a student is
reading where if student is going into the detail reading of the text, skimming reading ability
provide with better comprehending what is being read as it helps in identifying the main parts of
the text or project that are highly important for the students. It is an efficient manner for
refreshing materials of large amount before the exams.
Signposting language strategy- it relates with with the phrases and words that are being used in
order to guide the listener coherently through what is being said. It makes clear understanding of
what just happened and accounts to what is going to happen next (Akhmad, Shchukina, 2020).
It simply act as guide to students which can be followed with what the author are being saying.
These are words and phrases that helps in articulating structure of a piece of writing and ensures
that readers don get lost where it account to flag the most important parts of arguments, signal
transitions and helps in clarifying the stake of arguments. Signpost are particularly points of
notice in a text that stands out as a significant moment in the story whereby it provides with the
valuable insight into and raising question about various literary arguments such as conflict,
theme and other which enhances reading skills of students.
Reading for gist strategy where the Gist is the overall meaning, the core and main idea of a
spoken or a written discourse which when taking a quick look a text which is being written to
establish its genre and where the main message its writer means is to get across where it suggest
that we are reading for gist where the text can provide readers with lots of clues that helps
readers to quickly establish what is being it all about where these need not be just isn't the words.
Reading for gist strategy is all about getting the ideas to what is being the text by skimming it
fastly and rapidly and ignoring to various grammatical words (Parise, 2019).

Scanning strategy of reading- relates to the act of searching a particular information in a text
with a approach that is being particular where for instance if the student what to the know the
meaning of virtuous from the dictionary it will start searching from the letter V than I and which
goes on which will probably helps in finding the word where the process of searching is called
scanning which is the fast techniques for the students for increasing there reading abilities. It
relates with knowing the basic ideas of text where the scanning can not be possible if there is no
basic idea for the same (CHEWARUSSAMEE, Torut, 2018).
Suggestion to improve quality or written projects
There are various suggestion which can lead to improving up of quality of written projects where
by it accounts with
Listening to the feedbacks which will helps the students to improve upon various areas
such as writing skills which includes neat and clean handwriting which is serves as the means of
attracting the tutor and accounts with good grade, accounts to use of proper grammar and use of
correct sentences which helps in supporting and understanding to the message which is being
written, accounts to the listening of the feedbacks which relates with use of commas, full stops
and other. The listening of feedbacks strategy can account with using of vocabulary in the
manner which is being highly efficient and effective which helps students in writing there
assignment with proper understanding and accounts with obtaining the good grades for the same
(Yusuf, Jusoh, Yusuf, 2019).
It also accounts with the strategy of critical thinking of writing the assignment which
accounts to take into consideration where aspects of the topic which serves as the including all
main the topic which are being related with the topic which accounts to reader understanding in
effective manner of what the writer needs to make its readers understand which helps in boosting
up with the knowledge of both reader and writer (Beneke, 2016).
The strategy accounts with writing any things with clear structure and format which
helps in understanding of the project with clear steps as it should be the associated with the the
topic which are being related with each other and helps in designing of the project in the manner
which is being understandable to the reader and which does not account with any kind of
problem in understanding (Saleh, 2019). The clear structure and format relates with writing in a
manner whereby at the start of the project it should be briefing that what is being included in the
project which provide with the brief understanding of what all topics are being included in the

project (Ingram, 2020). The clear structure and format also accounts with dividing of the writing
into various paragraphs which helps in effective writing of the assignment and accounts with
providing flow of texts where by it allow the reader that certain topic is being over and the writer
is being moving to the next topic. Its importance is it helps in highlighting to the main ideas
being covered in the particular sections and what are the argument being presented support or
not to support the same (Kuimova, Zvekov, 2016)
The strategy and suggestion which improve the quality of written projects of the students
accounts with using sufficient resources to write down and explains with the topic as from this
students get to know and gets valuable insight about the topic and get to access more content for
the same which helps in writing the assignment with more efficiency and productivity and leads
down to have good impression the tutor that students has accounted with the extensive research
to write down the project as result leads with higher chances to get good grades and remarks.
(Vaughn2018) But by getting information from various sources it is being also required on the
end of student to rephrase the meaning in its own language which if directly copied can account
to generation of plagiarism report as result leads with degrading the quality of the projects and
leads with negative remarks. The another strategy with the same relates with citing the sources
and can be said as referencing the information which is being used in the assignment as it leads
with the reader to understand from where the writer has derived the meaning of the topic and
helps the same to get the additional information which is being not included in the same
(Prahmana, 2017).
RECOMMENDATIONS
It is being recommended to the students to continuously account to enhance there
reading skills which could be by the means of reading newspaper, articles, novels which helps in
building with there skills of reading and accounts with the same to build with there knowledge in
future where one could be updated with what is being going and will lead to effective
participation in writing to the assignments of students.
CONCLUSION
From the above it is being understood that the skills are very important on the end of individual
to acquire as they help in effective flow towards career progression and accounts with standing
and participating in the highly competitive environment. It is being understood that both reading
and writing skills are important for the individual and there are various strategies, methods and

suggestion which can lead to the improvement in the same . The skills leads to fostering the
growth of career and helps in building up with individual morale and confidence and helps in
taking up of challenging task more effectively.

REFERENCES
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