Portfolio Report on Note-Taking, Plagiarism, and Presentation Skills

This portfolio report delves into key aspects of professional development, emphasizing the importance of various skills for academic and professional success. The report begins by defining a portfolio and highlighting the essential elements required for its effective completion. It then explores note-taking as a crucial activity for recording and retaining information, discussing its benefits and effectiveness in the learning process. The report also examines the significance of reliable information sources, distinguishing between primary and secondary sources and addressing the issue of plagiarism, providing strategies to avoid it through paraphrasing and the use of synonyms. Furthermore, the report covers referencing and paraphrasing, emphasizing their roles in supporting arguments and avoiding plagiarism. Finally, it discusses the importance of presentation skills, outlining key factors for their development and their impact on conveying information effectively. The report concludes by summarizing the importance of these skills for both personal and professional growth, emphasizing their role in achieving success in the long term.

Portfolio

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
Notetaking....................................................................................................................................1
Source of information..................................................................................................................1
Plagiarism....................................................................................................................................2
Referencing and paraphrasing.....................................................................................................2
Presentation skills........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Portfolio is defined as the accumulation of student task which represents a selection of
performance. Moreover, there are various information which would be needed in
accomplishment of particular portfolio in systematized way (Dukhan, 2020). This information
are note taking, presentation skills and others. All these are vital information which would be
needed for effectively accomplishment of portfolio. The topics which are going to be covered in
this report are note- taking, sources of information, plagiarism, referencing and paraphrasing.
Apart from these all, presentation skills are also discussed in this report.
Main Body
Notetaking
Note – taking in considered as the activities of recording information from various source.
Also, this is performing when person written to that notes and make notes upon them.
Additionally, this is much helpful competencies which come in handy not only just attempting
questions but also to prepare individuals within its life.
Along with this, note taking is very essential as this incorporates individuals into process
of learning. The taking notes enable them to minimise information within manageable size. It
would also be helpful in recording various data for longer duration which in turn affect learning
in optimistic way. Thus, taking notes are vital as well as crucial part of gaining knowledge and
growth. Moreover, it is also crucial for student into its studies (Guesmi, 2020). There are few
effectiveness of note taking like it allow person to recall all thing that teaches into class during
examination or apart, clear doubts, develop a habit of writing and others. Along with this, it
would also helpful in preventing from mistakes while attending any meetings, classes and others.
So, note- taking is very vital into classroom for students.
Source of information
There are several kind of reliable information sources when an individuals could simply
obtain information regarding their studies and others. Moreover, there is several number of
secondary sources when i could simply accumulate information related to person courses. These
sources are articles, journals, books and many more. Whole these are helpful as well as reliable
information source which assists person into their career such as without references, this would
not be possible for me to gather effective and reliable data. Along with this, non- reliable source
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are personal websites, tweets, blogs and others. Both of them such as non reliable as well as
reliable sources are determined with assistance of internet. For example: blogs, forums, websites
and many others.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is considered as the chances of similarity into the work the individuals perform,
when the content get copied through someone that are already used in same like content earlier.
Moreover, the copying of others content is not effectual approach as well as undertaken as
misconduct. Therefore, this si vital that the content that are going to be written into document
that should not be copied from others as this would be regarded as plagiarism that comes under
the category of misconduct (Lewis and et. al., 2020). Along with this, the ways which would aids
individuals to obviate plagiarism from its content is paraphrasing the written information into
own manner through understanding the actual meaning. Additionally, it assists in representing
the opinions upon similar topics without copying others content. Also, person can use synonyms
as this is considered as the other way which is helpful in obviating plagiarism but not much
effective in comparison to others those are discussed above. As many times, it assists to obviate
information but not keep the relevancy of those sentence similar manners as it depicted through
author’s original one. Therefore, the usages of synonyms to remove plagiarism required to be
used in conscious way through maintaining the sentence relevancy so that the meaning of
sentences does not get changed and information would be understandable to viewers. Also, it
assists whole for gaining exact meaning that is actually represented through author into original
document.
Referencing and paraphrasing
Referencing is also considered as the sourcing that is cited at the time of representing the
views upon topics with assistance of determine knowledge from the view point of other authors’.
Moreover, it is essential to perform as this aids individuals to authenticate the view point upon
topic in addition to aids of obtaining trust of other individual’s opinion which information is
effective as well as relevant for reading in order to obtain information over particular topics.
While paraphrasing is also regarded as the practice of rewriting information into their own words
so that plagiarism cannot occurs. Moreover, it has significance in representing the onions of
other author upon similar topics without copying the work of others. It also assists in presenting
the information in lawful way.
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There is particular format of performing the referencing part. So, one of the known style to
do referencing is Harvard. This can be performing in such as way, initially individuals have to
include the author name the year with publication name and page number. Therefore, for
performing this in effective and relevant way individuals required to follow the format
appropriately. After referencing the particular information that is essential is their citation for
authenticity. Within whole nature, this procedures involves reference putting at place in which
same kind of information is represented in own view point.
Presentation skills
Respective skill is essential that aids person to effectually represent their own opinions upon
particular topics. Moreover, the indulgence of particular competency into personality aids in
depicting exact image into different manner that is into written form or in power point
presentation (Ochoa and et. al., 2020). The effectiveness of presentation skills assists all person
to cover only essential point that are having relevancy with topics as well as vital in nature to
deliver actual means. Along with this, it would not only develop information relevancy but also
aids to improve the presenting ways which grant eh attention of various viewers. Also, the
integration of both assists person to become different that have ability to present things in
effective and simple way. the key factors upon which individuals have to work in order to
develop presentation skills into their personality involves listening, communication, learning and
others. Whole these in combined way aids to develop personality appropriately.
CONCLUSION
Based upon the above report, this has been concluded that it is essential to have various
competencies into the personality. Moreover, it would help person in order to become efficient
learner with assistance of which they many able to garb more new things on time effectively.
Apart from this, if in future times, all these aid individuals to obtain success at shorter duration in
personal and professional life.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Dukhan, S., 2020. Note-making in biology: How the school experience influences note-making
practice and approach at university. African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science
and Technology Education, 22(3), pp.265-275.
Guesmi, K., Saadi, S., Abid, I. and Ftiti, Z., 2020. Portfolio diversification with virtual currency:
Evidence from bitcoin. International Review of Financial Analysis, 63, pp.431-437.
Lewis, M. and et. al., 2020. Pre-training via paraphrasing. Advances in Neural Information
Processing Systems, 33.
Ochoa, X. and et. al., 2020, March. The RAP system: Automatic feedback of oral presentation
skills using multimodal analysis and low-cost sensors. In Proceedings of the 8th
international conference on learning analytics and knowledge (pp. 360-364).
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