Academic & Research Skills: Assessment and Note-Taking Analysis

This assignment focuses on academic and research skills, specifically addressing self-assessment and note-taking techniques. The student begins by evaluating their personal, academic, and academic English language skills, identifying strengths and weaknesses in areas such as honesty, presentation skills, creativity, vocabulary, and writing. The student then sets specific, time-bound targets for self-improvement, including enhancing presentation skills, building trust, improving summarizing and paraphrasing abilities, and improving reading and listening comprehension. The note-taking section emphasizes active listening skills, reading strategies, and techniques for paraphrasing and summarizing information. The student highlights the importance of organized notes, the use of color-coding, and the application of reading strategies like survey, question, read, recall, and review. The assignment concludes with a list of references including books and journals related to the topics discussed.

Academic & Research Skills

CONTENTS
TASK – 1(ASSESSMENT & NOTE TAKING).......................................................................1
a). Assessing own strengths and weaknesses.........................................................................1
b). Setting targets for self-improvement.................................................................................1
c). Note taking........................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................3

TASK – 1(ASSESSMENT & NOTE TAKING)
a). Assessing own strengths and weaknesses
It is quite essential to evaluate own strength and weaknesses on certain skills for the
purpose of making improvement in the areas which are quite weak and for developing an
efficient personal development plan (Kusumoto, 2018). Some of the strengths and
weaknesses for different skills are as follows:
Personal skills
Strengths Weaknesses
I am every honest and carry out my task
with full integrity
Many a times I face issues related to giving
presentation
I am also very eager to learn new things Lack of trust is also one of my weaknesses
Academic skills
Strengths Weaknesses
I am very creative and always makes effort
to do creative tasks
When vocabulary is strong, I face problem
in summarizing
I am also quite good at taking notes I also sometimes fail in paraphrasing
Academic English language skills
Strengths Weaknesses
My writing skills are very good Sometimes in does not understand
vocabulary and face difficulty in reading
I am also perfect at speaking English I also sometimes cannot listen properly
b). Setting targets for self-improvement
Targets Short- or
long-term
targets
Activities for achieving the targets Timeframe
Presentation
skills
Long term Practicing by standing in front of the
mirror and gaining knowledge through
attending presentation of others
6 months
Lack of trust Long term Requires to develop bonding with
people
6 months
Summarizing Long term Understanding the content thoroughly 6 months
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and making use of own words, reading
the text multiple times
Paraphrasing Long term Require to emphasize on vocabulary
and need to learn articles and
conjunction
2 months
Reading Short term Using dictionary while reading and
book or paragraph
1 month
Listening Short term It is important to interact with people,
participating in debates and speaking
up open heartedly
1 month
c). Note taking
 Noted key points using active listening skills – Active listening plays a very crucial
role in taking notes. It is quite essential to remain attentive, summarizing, regulating
and concentrated while listening. There are different techniques which have been used
while taking notes using active listening skills, for example, building trust, non-verbal
and open-ended questions, concerning and paraphrasing. Further, it is also essential
that notes should be organized using colour pens for highlighting the crucial work
(Goodman, 2018).
 Noted key points using reading strategies – It is essential to take the notes of
important information using summarizing and paraphrasing technique. Through this,
useful data can be remembered easily and can help in performing better. Further, it is
also crucial to evaluate the source and reading the main purpose of the topic. Suitable
platform for taking notes should be selected. reading strategy that is survey, question,
read, recall and review must be kept in mind.
 Paraphrased and summarised information – At the time of summarizing, it is very
essential to determine the keywords and the naming the words to other words for
creating a varied combination. It is also important to be selective on a particular ideas
and beneficial data and then creating own framework of taking notes (Do Hood and
Marsh, 2021). On contrary, paraphrasing involves plentiful utilization of direct
quotes.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Do, C., Hood, P. and Marsh, D., 2021. CLIL: Content and Language Integrated Learning.
Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Goodman, J., 2018. Interactive Notetaking for Content-Area Literacy, Levels K-2. United
States: Shell Educational Publishing.
Kusumoto, Y., 2018. Enhancing critical thinking through active learning. Language Learning
in Higher Education. 8(1). pp.45-63.
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