Study Skills Report: University Study Skills, Plans and Goals

This report delves into the significance of study skills in higher education, outlining the reasons for pursuing a university degree, and the core academic skills necessary for success. It emphasizes the development of crucial skills like learning styles, paraphrasing, academic writing, and note-taking, highlighting their importance in enhancing learning and critical thinking. Furthermore, the report constructs a comprehensive study plan, encompassing both short-term and long-term goals, with actionable steps and resources to facilitate skill development and goal achievement. The plan provides a structured approach to enhance an individual's academic journey, fostering effective learning, and maximizing potential for success.

Study skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Reasons for studying a degree at university ...............................................................................1
Core academic skills and their importance ................................................................................1
Study plan ...................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Study skills are an display of skills which handle the process of organizing and taking in
new content and assist in dealing with assessments. In this report it will cover the various reasons
for studying a degree at university. Furthermore it will discuss the important core academic skills
that can developed and also it will states their importance. And at last it will develop the study
plan that will include long term and short term goals that will help an individual in acquiring and
developing the skills and knowledge and also it will help the individual to achieve its goals and
objective in the systematic manner.
MAIN BODY
Reasons for studying a degree at university
It is very important to study a degree at university as it help individual to gain knowledge
and have better understanding. As it help to enhance the skills and motivates to work in the
systematic matter. The second reason is it help to explore many new opportunity as it help create
many career possibility as by creating new perspective on language skills , a great education and
willingness learn (Uccelli, Barr and Galloway, 2016). The reason is that it help the individual to
learn about the things as studying various things create interest and helps to discover many new
things which will help the individual to polish the creative skills. And also it helps to develop the
personality and create strong point of view and brings independent independent nature. It helps
to discover the curiosity and excitement in order to learn new things. And the most important
reason for studying a degree at university to get better job as it is very essential for an individual
to become stable and have better job as it will help to increase the standard of living as by the
better job it will help to make more money. The next reason is that it help to gain general
knowledge and also it will help to adopt many to innovative ideas that will help to build a
greater future (Anderson and et.al, 2016).
Core academic skills and their importance
Academic skills are all about helping an individual to become more effective learner at
university level and help to develop research and study skills that will help to enhance the
personality which will help in future. Developing academic skills will help to achieve success.
As there are many core academic skills which are important for an individual such as -
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Learning styles – This are the most important skills which it describe as a set of factors ,
behaviour , attitude that assist learning for an individual. As these are the style which describe ,
identify , classified different ways of learning. It is mainly a style refers to the preferential way in
which the students absorbs , processes and keep information (Cottrell, 2017).
Learning style is basically a different ways an individual understand information. As it is
very important as it help to figure out things in an easy and simple manner. It also helps to
identify the strength and weakness and also help to improve the self esteem and helps to achieve
self gain.
Paraphrasing – it is basically a restatement of a paragraph in our own and different
words in order to get clear and better understanding and helps to achieve amended clarity.
This skills is very important to develop as it help student to understand and write the idea
in their own words that helps to create innovative and creative skills. Also it helps to increase the
writing skills . Also it helps to element and reduces plagiarism.
Academic writing – it is a style which is used in formal essay as it require formal essay
with a logical structure which are supported by the evidence.
It is very important as it is very effective skills which help the individual to writing skills
and gives better understanding. Also it helps to improve critical thinking and helps to solve
complicated problems in systematic manner. And also it teaches to manage time in proper and
effective manner (McGuire, 2015).
Note taking – it is basically a skills which help to give systematic information and
matter. As it is a practice of recording information as it helps to recall everything in an effective
manner.
As this skills is very important to develop as it give systematic picture as it helps in many
ways as by writing the notes this skills helps individual before exam for quick revision. And also
it helps to have sharp memory . And also it helps to develop the academic performances (Uccelli,
and et.al , 2015).
Study plan
Long term goals – These are the goals which are important for a successful career. As
these are the goals which take more time to achieve the objective as it required proper planning
and time.
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Short term goals – These are the goals which can be achieve in short span of time
generally less than one year (Assiter, 2017).
Skills to be improved Action to be taken Resources Time taken
Learning styles  Start making
good and
effective notes.
 Gets things
done on time .
 Complete all
the
assignment .
 From online
sources .
 Books and
journal.
It will take 6 month as
it is a short term goal.
Paraphrasing  Read the
paragraph
twice in order
to have greater
understanding .
 Use
synonyms .
 Changing the
grammatical
structure .
 Mentor
 professor
 Magazines
It will take
approximately 2 weeks
as it is a short term
goals which can easily
be achieved.
Academic writing  Debar
repetition
 Avoid
choppiness
 use Vocabulary
that you
known.
 Newspaper
 watch news.
 Books
 Mentor
As this will take
proper time and
planning in order to
achieve the objective
as it will take more
than 1 year as it is an
long term goal.
Note taking  Make  Professor It will take 2 month as
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systematic
notes
 develop
writing habits.
it is an short term goal.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it has concluded various reason for studying a degree at university.
As it is very important to enhance the skills. Further it has articulated all the core academic skills
which are to be develop and also its important as there are four academic skills such as learning
skills , paraphrasing , academic writing and note making. At last it has develop the study plan
which has include short term and long term goals and objective.
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REFERENCES
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Cottrell, S., 2017. Critical thinking skills: Effective analysis, argument and reflection. Macmillan
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McGuire, S. Y., 2015. Teach students how to learn: Strategies you can incorporate into any
course to improve student metacognition, study skills, and motivation. Stylus Publishing,
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Uccelli, P and et.al , 2015. Core Academic Language Skills: Moving beyond Vocabulary
Knowledge to Predict Reading Comprehension. Society for Research on Educational
Effectiveness.
Uccelli, P., Barr, C. D. and Galloway, E. P., 2016. Core Academic Language Skills Instrument
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