This assignment, completed by a student for the ASS086-1 Developing Academic Skills course, covers a range of essential skills for academic success. The assignment begins with a skills appraisal, prompting self-assessment of abilities and qualities. It then delves into the features and styles of academic writing, identifying examples of formal, cautious, and succinct language. The student explores different types of academic writing including descriptive, analytical, persuasive, and critical styles. The assignment continues with a literature search on the impacts of drug abuse, documenting the search process, keywords, and sources found, including a journal article, a newspaper/magazine article, and a book. It also includes active critical reading, answering questions about the source, publisher, author's aim, and bias. The assignment also includes note-taking, summarizing, and paraphrasing exercises, with a mind map and a summary of an abstract. Finally, it covers referencing, including in-text citations and reference list entries for various sources like books, journal articles, online newspapers, and chapters in edited books, using Harvard referencing style.
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