Study and Research Skills Assignment: Understanding Academic Writing

This assignment provides a comprehensive overview of essential study and research skills. It begins by defining citations and references, explaining their importance in academic writing. The assignment then delves into paraphrasing, illustrating how to restate text while maintaining the original meaning. It further explores academic style, highlighting its characteristics such as a formal tone and precise language, emphasizing its role in conveying information effectively. The concept of synthesis is introduced, explaining how to combine different sources to draw conclusions and support arguments. Finally, the assignment addresses source evaluation, detailing how to assess the reliability and credibility of information to ensure academic integrity. The assignment includes examples and definitions to clarify each concept, supported by references to relevant academic sources.

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Table of Contents
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................1
Citations and references.............................................................................................................1
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................1
Paraphrasing task .......................................................................................................................1
Task 5...............................................................................................................................................1
Academic Style task ...................................................................................................................1
Task 6...............................................................................................................................................2
Synthesising task ........................................................................................................................2
Task 8...............................................................................................................................................2
Source Evaluation task................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................3

Task 1
Citations and references
A citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source. Citation can be defined as
the references to the sources that one uses while writing on the paper. The credit to the authors of
the information and ideas that the person is inferring in the paper can be given through citation.
At the end of the paper citations are arranged alphabetically. References is a list of these sources
that have cited (Hahm and Song, 2015). At the end of the paper the reference's comes. In the
references every sources that is listed need to be cited in the body of the paper. All the work that
is cited does no necessarily goes in the references in APA style.
Task 3
Paraphrasing task
Using other words paraphrase is a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage. The
text that is being paraphrased is typically explained by a paraphrase. For an instance, “ The
signal was green” this can be paraphrased as “The train was allowed to pass as the signal was
green”. A set of facts or opinion are being taken by paraphrasing and then the rewording is done.
It is essential to keep the original meaning at the time of paraphrasing. In their own words that
person is simply writing that expressed the original idea. With individual sentences or entire
paragraphs paraphrasing can be done (Cortes-Vera, Garcia and Gutierrez, 2017). In comparison,
with original passage paraphrasing usually makes the passage shorter. A version that can exist
beside the original can be provided when paraphrasing is being done. For an instance when the
person tells her/his friend about something that someone has already said then at that time that
person is always paraphrasing as the exact words that is used by another person is not repeated.
Task 5
Academic Style task
In order to define the intellectual boundaries of their disciplines and the specific fields of
expertise the researcher often make use of academic writing. A formal tone, usage of their -
person rather than the first person are some the characteristics of academic writing. In order to
convey a body of information about a specific subject a form of exploratory and argumentative
present is used by the university students, faculty and researchers (Chapman, 2017). The facts
and figures are given precisely in academic writing. The vocabulary is also used correctly in
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academic writing. After research and evaluation the academic writing usually takes place and it
is always well-planned according to particular purpose and plan.
Task 6
Synthesising task
A synthesis is a written discussion that draws on one or more attention. On the ability to
infer relationship among sources such as essays, articles etc the ability to write synthesis depends
on. A number of different pieces are combined together as a whole in a synthesis. In order to
review the literature on a topic synthesis is about concisely summarizing and linking different
sources (Currie and Procter, 2017). With analysis synthesis usually goes as the concept or idea is
broken down into its essential parts so that one can draw useful conclusion or about the problem
or topic can make decisions. Basically the synthesis are of two types that is the exploratory
synthesis and the argument synthesis. The topic by the reader can be understood by an
explanatory synthesis. The own point of view can be supported by the argument synthesis. The
selection of what is relevant is involved in the synthesis , linking it to another point and then
developing a coherent whole
Task 8
Source Evaluation task
It can be a complex task when doing research. On the reliability of the information one
used to support the point the credibility of the papers depends . One should develop a credible
source in order to write an academic text. The purpose of the research need to be evaluated
before the evaluation of the source. In case the researching is done for an academic paper then
one need to have a very credible, reliable and worthwhile sources as the authenticity of the
sources will be judged (Evaluating Sources for Reliability, Credibility, and Worth, 2017). By
two factors that is recency and verifiability the reliability of the sources can be determined. A
document is more likely to be a reliable sources of information if it is being published in the
recent years. For reliability source can be tested if it can be verified. By two criteria that is
credential of author and if it comes from an unbiased source the credibility of a source can be
determined.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Chapman, A., 2017. The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the humanities, by Eric
Hayot. London Review of Education. 15(1). pp.143-144.
Cortes-Vera, J., Garcia, T.J. and Gutierrez, A., 2017. Knowing and improving paraphrasing
skills of Mexican college students. Information and Learning Science. 118(9/10).
pp.490-502.
Currie, G. and Procter, S., 2017. The Role of Middle Managers in Realising Human Resource
Strategy: Evidence from the NHS. Organisation Development in Health Care: Strategic
Issues in Health Care Management.
Hahm, J.E. and Song, M., 2015. Detection of Hidden Knowledge Using a Citation-Based
Approach Based on Swansons ABC Model. Journal of the Korean Society for
information Management. 32(2). pp.87-103.
Online
Evaluating Sources for Reliability, Credibility, and Worth. 2017.
<https://study.com/academy/lesson/evaluating-sources-for-reliability-credibility-and-
worth.html/>
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