Leeds Trinity Portfolio: Reflections on Academic Skills Development

This portfolio documents a student's learning journey at Leeds Trinity University, focusing on academic skills development through lectures, activities, and workshops. It emphasizes finding and evaluating information, utilizing the CRAAP test for source reliability, and understanding the support services offered by the university, including the 'Be Brilliant' tab in the library. The portfolio reflects on the development of skills such as essay writing, critical thinking, and research, alongside accessing academic, professional, and financial support. The 'Be Brilliant' tab is highlighted as a valuable resource for improving academic skills, evaluating information, and understanding referencing styles while avoiding plagiarism. The portfolio concludes with a list of references used.

Portfolio based on lectures
activities and workshops

TABLE OF CONTENT
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
Finding the information and evaluating the sources....................................................................4
Understanding the CARRP test and use for its studies................................................................4
Listing down key support services provided by Leeds trinity university and explaining support
services.........................................................................................................................................5
Understanding be brilliant tab available in Leeds trinity university library and how it can be
used..............................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................7

MAIN BODY.
Finding the information and evaluating the sources
Information nowadays might be got from various sources but the most common source is
internet where vast amount of topics and data are made available to research form. However, it is
important that information that has been collected is reliable and accurate and this is only
possible when right search engines are been chosen. Moreover, it is essential that when searching
any kind of information and found (reliable) than it need to be stored so that it might be used for
the future references (AlHouli and Al-Khayatt, 2020). Thus, information finding is easier than
evaluating it as it requires that its based on the topic and subject matter is not irrelevant and of no
use. Also, after the evaluation it is essential that to check the information collected is form the
latest sources and is not of older data as it will than become of no use and there would no proof
of its validation. Thus, the information that is collected need to be reviewed on timely manner
and also narrowed down to specific topic so that it might be well understood and us easy to
understand by anyone that wants top access the data in the future at any point of time.
Understanding the CARRP test and use for its studies.
It is type of test that helps in analysing whether the information collected is reliable or
not. Also, it consists of elements such as currency, authority, relevance and purpose. Moreover, it
is used only for evaluating the sources of material that are collected from online sources. Hence,
once the test in applied in the right manner than it helps in identifying whether the respective
materials have to be used or not in any for the field of research for the future purpose. Also, each
element in this test belong to some aspect such as currency stands for timeliness, relevance is for
importance of information, authority is for source where the informations are gathered, accuracy
is the truthfulness and correctness in the information and lastly purpose is the reason for the
information exists (Alizamar and et.al., 2018). Moreover, this type of test assures that all the
information is reliable for conduct of any future researches. However, the students in the initial
time finds quite challenging when applying this type of test as it is not easy as it seems and more
number of complexity might be faced when individual is less known about certain facts or data
related to any topic. Also, the main purpose of this test is ultimate goal of the author that would
enable in identifying the answers to certain questions like is there is thesis statement, is site
trying to sell something, how the source is intended to be used and much more that would help in
achieving certain objectives or goals (Burkhart and et.al., 2020).

Listing down key support services provided by Leeds trinity university and explaining support
services
Key support services of the trinity university is that they are very well concern about the
well-being of the students and hence provide various advice related to the essay writing,
effective note taking, critical thinking and research and much more. Also, other services include
providing supports to the students through proving the business development hub so that the
students are able to explore and develop the ideas. Moreover, the university knows that no two
students are similar in the same way and thus different facilities and support services are required
to succeed in the studies (Attanasio and et.al., 2020). Also, these type of services are been
provided so that great access might be provided in terms of academic, professional and financial
support. Moreover, in terms of services system it can be said that the university have counselling
and resident mentors, learning hub, student finance wing and much more. Thus, all the support
services are made to make students feel more comfortable and settled at the university with
support of their mentors to assist them in better manner (ACADEMIC FACILITIES AND
SUPPORT, 2022). Also, the university have peer learning mentors that are upper level students
supporting others to make the most of the professional work placements, revision skills and time
management, completing practical work assignments etc.
Moreover, Andrew learning centre is very well-known for studying in the campus and
hence it provides lot of services such as IT facilities, cafe and social learning spaces so that better
student support and help might be provided. Furthermore, Andrew learning centre have library
and IT help desk that helps the students in getting one-to-one specialist subject support from the
qualified team of the university (Katoue and Ker, 2019). Moreover, wide range of online tools
are provided that would help in easily keeping track of library loans that are taken by the
students.
Understanding be brilliant tab available in Leeds trinity university library and how it can be used
It is type of section that is available on the library webpage where collection of resources
are made available for developing the academic skills. Also, the students here would be able to
find attractive videos, PDF and tutorials so that skills might be improved in evaluating, searching
and finding out the referencing information (Baig, Siddiquah and Javed, 2020). Moreover, on be
brilliant everything is available on and off campus which means that students would be able to
access anytime and anywhere. Furthermore, in search section reading list might be searched

through using various kinds of keywords and academic materials. Also, evaluating tab in be
brilliant allows the students to evaluate the right sources of information as per the CRAAP.
Furthermore, the referencing tab allows the students to know about the correct referencing
Harvard and APA writing style that is used and also guides that plagiarism should be avoided.
Thus, through using be brilliant tab is very useful as it would allow the students to search the
online journals through using that appropriate keywords so that better results might be generated
(Heiermann and Prasad, 2018). Furthermore, such type of online tab is efficient to make the
students effective learner so that chances of errors are very minimum and better results are
derived each time when the students want to develop the information skills.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
AlHouli, A. I. and Al-Khayatt, A. K. A., 2020. Assessing the Soft Skills Needs of Teacher
Education Students. International Journal of Education and Practice. 8(3). pp.416-431.
Alizamar, A. and et.al., 2018. Learning skills level on the young prisoners. International Journal
of Counseling and Education (Couns-Edu). 3(3). pp.86-92.
Attanasio, O., and et.al., 2020. Inequality in socio-emotional skills: A cross-cohort
comparison. Journal of Public Economics. 191. p.104171.
Baig, S., Siddiquah, A. and Javed, F., 2020. An analysis of the competency ‘reading and thinking
skills’ in Grade VIII English textbook. Global Social Sciences Review. 5(1). pp.231-240.
Burkhart, S. J. and et.al., 2020. Undergraduate students experience of nutrition education using
the flipped classroom approach: A descriptive cohort study. Journal of nutrition
education and behavior. 52(4). pp.394-400.
Heiermann, V. and Prasad, D., 2018. Relative Aspects in Representation Theory, Langlands
Functoriality and Automorphic Forms (Vol. 2221, pp. vii+-361). Cham: Springer
International Publishing.
Katoue, M. G. and Ker, J., 2019. Simulation for continuing pharmacy education: development
and implementation of a simulation-based workshop on medicines reconciliation for
pharmacists. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions. 39(3). pp.185-
193.
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ACADEMIC FACILITIES AND SUPPORT. 2022. [Online]. Available
through:<https://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/study/academic-facilities-and-support/>.