Skills Practice Report: Academic Skills and Time Management

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of essential academic skills, including academic study skills, academic integrity, time management, reflection, academic writing, note-taking, and sourcing and searching strategies. The student identifies their strengths and weaknesses in academic settings, emphasizing the importance of result-oriented behavior, teamwork, and decision-making. The report outlines the significance of academic integrity, detailing practices followed by Arden University. It also covers effective time management strategies, self-reflection techniques, and the importance of academic writing and note-taking. Furthermore, the report explores data sourcing from primary and secondary sources, including the application of the CRAAP test for information evaluation. The conclusion highlights the importance of skill development for career success, summarizing the key aspects discussed throughout the report.

Skills practice

TABLE OF CONTENT
 Introduction
 Academic study skills
 Academic integrity
 Time management
 Reflection
 Academic writing
 Note taking
 Sourcing and searching

INTRODUCTION
 In present time, skills are highly important in order to grow and
succeed in career in future period of time. Here, skills and abilities
make a person enable to achieve milestones in personal and
professional career (Khin-Htun and Kushairi, 2019). The present
report comprised strengths of weakness of graduate students along
with academic integrity and time management practices. It also
comprises reflection, academic writing and at the end proper
referencing of work for enhancing the reliability and authenticity.

ACADEMIC STUDY SKILLS
 It is analyzed that each and every person has some strong as well
as weak points which affect their performance in academics
(Patell and et. al., 2018). While graduating from university, I also
acknowledge some strengths and weakness which significantly
affect my performance within university. My strengths &
weaknesses are mentioned as under:
 Strengths:
 I am result oriented person with optimistic attitude which allows
me to explore different things in life. I am a good team player due
to which actively participated in group activities. I am good at
decision making which is essential to get success in personal and
professional career.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
 It refers to apply the values and principles for ensuring fair practices in
academic work. Academic integrity focuses to perform all the academic
tasks in ethical and fair manner (Gilchrist, Schinke and Maxwell, 2018). It
is the fundamental of learning and allows students to bring new ideas and
creativity in academic setting. In Arden University, they use practices of
academic integrity which can be understood with below mentioned
examples:
 Legal actions are taken against students if, they found to involve in
unethical practices.
 There are predefined academic values and principles which need to follow
by both students and teachers.
 They check the plagiarism of assignments and answer sheets before final
submission of work

TIME MANAGEMENT
 For this purpose, I will prepare a complete schedule under which I
will divide adequate time for each and every activity for managing
time in an effective manner. I will determine time for my studies
under which I will give equal time to each and every subject. I
will also take out time for family and friends as it is important to
create a balance between personal and professional life.

REFLECTION
 I will undertake self analysis in order to gain familiarity about my
current performance and scope of improvement. With the help of
self reflection, I will able to know my strengths which make me
different from others and allow me to perform tasks in an efficient
manner. Here, I analyzed that I am an optimistic person due to
which I am able to face different obstacles in life in best possible
way.

ACADEMIC WRITING
 Academic writing is related with writing assignments, preparing
notes for performing well in academic setting. It makes a person
enable to write plagiarism free content and assignments which is
important to become a good student. Academic writing also plays
a crucial role in research work. During academics, a student needs
to write a lot of assignments, research projects for which, it is vital
to have good command over grammar (Kardong-Edgren,
Oermann and Rizzolo, 2019).

NOTE TAKING
 Note taking is a common practice which is often performed by
students during classroom session. Notes are helpful for
remembering the lecture for longer period of time. Notes work as
an evidence in academic setting by which students can easily go
through with the concepts which are explained by faculty during
classroom session (Poulou, 2017). Notes play a crucial role in my
studies due to which I can easily memorize the concept for longer
duration.

SOURCING AND SEARCHING
 There are a lot of sources through which data can be gathered in
order to get necessary information. For the current study data has
been collected through two major sources which are mentioned
below:
 Primary source: Under this, information is gathered by researcher
own efforts. Here, data is completely raw and first hand thus has
higher authenticity and reliability (Cusack, Killoury and Nugent,
2017).
 Secondary source: It is the most crucial source of data collection
under which already available information is used by researcher.
Generally used secondary sources are newspaper, journals,
articles, books and websites. For the purpose of current study,
information has been taken out from appropriate articles, journals,
books and more.

CONT..
 CRAAP test:
 This test is applied for checking the reliability and authenticity of
the information which has been gathered from different sources.
 Currency(C): Information need to be recent and updated.
 Relevancy(R): Data should be relevant for current project (Motta,
2016).
 Authority (A): It includes information regarding author and time
of publishing of data.
 Accuracy (A): In this, origin as well as evidence of data is
considered by researcher.
 Purpose (P): Reason to availability of information.
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CONCLUSION
 It is summarized that skills are highly important to grow and
succeed in career. So, individual needs to analyze own skills and
potential and prepare strategies for betterment accordingly.
Discussion has been carried out about academic integrity, time
management, academic writing and note taking. These skills are
crucial for getting growing in academics in an efficient manner.