LSC Study Skills for Higher Education: Essay on Habits and Strategies

This document presents two assessments: an individual essay and an individual report, both focused on study skills for higher education. The essay explores the importance of various study habits, including setting goals, taking responsibility, and self-development, discussing their impact on student success. It also covers additional habits like scheduling, exercise, and networking. The report delves into strategies for improving reading ability, such as highlighting statements, practicing problem-solving, and setting reading targets. Furthermore, it provides suggestions for enhancing the quality of written projects. Both assessments aim to equip students with the necessary skills and strategies for academic achievement and effective learning in a higher education setting.

Study Skills for Higher
Education

Table of Contents
Assessment 1 - Individual essay......................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Three habits and their importance for student success................................................................1
Additional habits that students need and their importance.........................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
References:.......................................................................................................................................5
Assessment 2 - Individual report ....................................................................................................6
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................6
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................6
Strategies for students to improve their reading ability..............................................................6
Suggestions that helps students to improve the quality of their written projects........................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
References:.......................................................................................................................................6

TASK DESCRIPTION – Project 1
Assessment 1 - Individual essay
INTRODUCTION
Study habits are the abilities that one needs to assist to learn and understand effectively. It
is necessary part to achieve something in life that one desires for (Study habits for success: tips
for students, 2020). This report provides generic habits of study suggestions properly to students
in various life's situations and disciplines, for all type of students, part time or full, those who are
having educational gap, those who are involved in professionalism and any student who wants to
learn efficiently. The following discussions is based on the good and positive habits that one
must acquire in it's life for their betterment and importance are discussed of such habits.
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Three habits and their importance for student success
Set Goals
If one wants to be successful in life then they must ensure that they have been setting the
goal to focus on some particulars because without goals, one cannot monitor themselves and
don't have any clarity about path they have to move on. Moreover, setting goals defines the
achievement and success rate of an individual. Setting goals are important because:
 It gives focus to the person who really wants to achieve something in life, it assist to
overcome distraction which are happening around either by living or non-living things.
 It helps in measuring progress as setting goal brings the person toward that goal either
slow or fast that performance can easily be measurable by setting it.
 It helps in gaining motivation as setting goal inspires people to work on them efficiently
so it motivates person to get into the schedule with full concentration (Burchard, 2017).
 It helps in beating delayed work because if goal has been set then it can be automatically
understood that it needs to be achieved timely so person takes care to overcome that
procrastination. It helps in directing as it acts like a road map, gives the path to the person that on what
direction and on what side they have to fasten or slow up, what to ignore and what to
focus, gives a clear way that what is actually requiring to achieve the targets.
Take responsibility for their Action
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This is the most important habit that a person must need to be successful in life. It is not
necessary that a decision-making is always right, sometimes it leads to failure and sometimes
success. Usually people blame others for their failure and unable to handle it, but for succession,
one must learn that failures are the part of success, everybody have to face it, important is that
how much the person can learn out of their failure, if person has this courage to overcome failure
without blaming anyone else instead taking own responsibility of what is happening then they
will definitely achieve their targets for what they are aspiring for. It is important because:
 It helps in growth and overall development of a person by taking responsibility for their
own failure or success because it brings maturity in necessary phases of life which is
required in every person to be successful (Carden and Wood, 2018).
 It helps to stay away from excuses because excusing is the first step towards failure itself,
and taking responsibility is the step towards success.
 It helps in building right mindset as handling failure brings the mind to it's next level of
success so taking responsibility matures the mind which pushes the person towards
success. It helps in focusing on learning outcomes as failures teach a lot of learnings about what is
to be ignored and what to give importance so taking responsibility of failures brings more
exploration of learnings (Covey and Covey, 2020).
Obsessed with self-development
Obsession for personal development is the most necessary habit that one must acquire in
their life. Because until the person is not self-obsessed, aspiring for achievement is difficult for
them. It is said that until and unless a person cannot love themselves, then they cannot love
anyone else in their life. Therefore, it is important to be self-obsessed for personal growth and
development. Some important points describing reasons are:
 It helps to be less stressed and more tougher and happier because obsession of self
development is a part of self love and loving oneself leads to free mind with less tension.
 It helps in beating failures as self obsessed person are more conscious about it's
succession and failure so they mainly focus on how to overcome failures to be successful
in life.
 It helps to target bigger goals as enthusiasm in a person leads to think bigger rather then
targeting the small things (Haldane, 2018).
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Additional habits that students need and their importance
Scheduling a routine
It refers to the scheduling of work hours, relaxing hours and other things that usually
makes a day of the person. It depends on the monthly or yearly goals set by a person.
Accordingly they can schedule the routine either of the whole day or week. It is important
because:
 It helps in lowering stress levels as because if routine is set with a proper schedule of
work and entertainment then it automatically lowers the stress related to work load or
anything else. Important is to follow the routine that is made focusing on the goal
(Covey, 2020).
 It improves sleeping time because now a days people wakes till late at night and wakes
up late in the morning so this spoils all the day activities, so scheduling is important so
that a person could get enough sleep on time.
 It improves in eating habits and health as scheduling assist in having breakfast, lunch and
dinner on time, this maintains proper health and happy mind. It brings effectiveness in utilising the time because proper routine sets working hours in
such a way that it leads to completion of the targets per day or week if schedule followed
honestly without any laziness.
Exercise and meditation
It refers to the physical and mental exercise, activities like yoga for proper health either
in terms of mental or physical health. It is important for a person to be successful in life because
of the following reasons:
 It helps in improving physical conditions of a person because exercising assist in healthy
outcome in a person which ultimately results in succession of it's targets or goal.
 It boosts energy because exercising leads to fitness in health which results in powering up
the energy and builds up positive attitude towards the goals (Robbins, 2017). It helps in maintaining relaxing mood as mood connects with brain and emotions so
meditation mainly looks out to mental health and stability towards goals with no
distractions.
Networking
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It refers to the building up a social relationships either by physically which includes
gatherings, parties, conferences and many more or by virtually which includes internet consisting
social sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and many more. This is important in
achieving goals as:
 It helps in being noticeable as if a person communicates with a lot of people and sharing
ideas and views with each other helps in gaining attention in a group of people that is
why being noticeable helps to achieve goals.
 It helps in opening new opportunities because as much as a person being interactive with
others, opportunities always pops up to their doors with an intention of grabbing them for
achieving targets in life (Spangler and Tverberg, 2018).
 It helps in creative and innovative mindset because more the people meets with other
people, exchanging of new ideas are always involved which benefits a person to use
those innovative and creative ideas to their achieving the goals.
 It helps in maintaining long-lasting relationships as it benefit the person to be loyal with
someone and gaining trust and believe towards them assists in achieving the targets more
smoothly with a broad and exploring mindset.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded that good habits in a person benefits them in not only achieving the targets
or goals but also living the life to the fullest with proper discipline and by maintaining the health
also. It is discussed that what are the different types of habits that affects the person in variety of
ways and a person must look to explore these habits more for sake of self-development, self-
growth, self-benefits and for aspiring the successful life.
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References:
Books and Journals:
Burchard, B., 2017. High performance habits: How extraordinary people become that way. Hay
House, Inc.
Carden, L. and Wood, W., 2018. Habit formation and change. Current Opinion in Behavioral
Sciences, 20, pp.117-122.
Covey, S.R. and Covey, S., 2020. The 7 habits of highly effective people. Simon & Schuster.
Covey, S.R., 2020. The 7 habits of highly effective people. Simon and Schuster.
Haldane, B., 2018. How to make a habit of success. Pickle Partners Publishing.
Robbins, M., 2017. The 5 second rule: Transform your life, work, and confidence with everyday
courage. Simon and Schuster.
Spangler, A. and Tverberg, L., 2018. Sitting at the feet of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewishness of
Jesus can transform your faith. Zondervan.
Online:
Study habits for success: tips for students. 2020. Available
through<https://theconversation.com/study-habits-for-success-tips-for-students-
89147>./
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TASK DESCRIPTION – Project 2
Assessment 2 - Individual report
INTRODUCTION
Ability to read and write in a person is called literacy. But Effective reading and efficient
writing are a skills that every student must attain in themselves. Because they are the primary
functions in today's world, helps in gaining a good job, assist in developing the mind, helps in
exploring new things, builds up imagination, build ups the creativity in people, assist in
translation, communication, materializing things, develops professionalism and more informative
towards various things through different aspects. The following discussion is made on the tactics
for the improvement of the student's readability and advising in developing the quality of writing
in a more creative and innovative manner (Benefits of Reading & Writing Skills, 2019).
MAIN BODY
Strategies for students to improve their reading ability Highlighting the statements while reading: This is one of the strategy while reading
anything, if a person wants deep learning about the concept of what they are about to read
then it is necessary to highlight the statements that are important or are containing some
concepts which could be useful in future. These statements generally contains necessary
phrases, new words, conceptual sentences, typical language and many more. Always
carry a pencil or a highlighter while reading so that it can be very well understood if
marking essential points are done, this is done for the future reference and not facing any
difficulty while revising again after sometime. This makes reading more sensible (Durga
and Rao, 2018). Practising skills like problem solving: This is an important approach to improve reading
skills because assessments like problem solving, practical questions, conceptual part
enhances skills of reading as it helps in building up the mindset with a more calculative
one. There are many books available in the market which contains these problem solving
statements, internet can be an another tool to practising these tactics. It mainly includes
practical questions like mathematical, technical, economical, statistical, accounting, cost
and many more. These problem solving questions helps the student to develop their mind
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and be more calculative. Moreover, it encourages personal growth and self development
of a person. Setting reading targets: This is another tactic to look for reading skills. Targets the the
very important part of starting something new productive things in life. Because without
targets, it cannot be possible for anyone to achieve for what they are aspiring for.
Reading targets are necessary to enhance the reading skills because it mainly focuses on
speed of reading with full understanding the concepts and with more effectiveness and
efficiency. Targets are of various types like it can be per day, monthly or yearly.
Vocabulary improving targets are also stated as they are also important because one of
the main objective to improve readability is the improvement of vocabulary which is very
essential in this world (Goodall Jr, 2018). Appealing the senses: It is another strategy to improve readability. Reading is considered
a very important skill in today's life. There are various stages included in reading habits
of the people. Some people just read for the sake of formality, some people read with
semi interest, some read with full interest and finally the people who read with their full
senses like eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin are the people who have great skills in
reading and understanding the concepts of matter very deeply. Making use of full senses
by people while doing any work makes them the perfectionist in that field. Reading habit
is necessary for any student so it should be adopted by them with full focus and senses in
them. Making reading interesting: This is one of the most essential approach in improvement
of reading skills. Because without building interest in the subject matter, it can be
difficult for a person to read with understanding and conceptually. So before starting the
reading , interest is important. It gain through by finding some humour in a content, it
must contain the images which excites the reader to read, headings, formatting, content
should be appropriate and proper, It should hurt any religion or feelings of a people, it
must simple with fun as possible. Because without the involvement of interesting part in
the content, reader can never gain skills if readability (Oxenham, 2017).
 Reading by relating to personal life: This strategy is important in terms of gaining
interest of a people. Because unless the person finds examples in the reading matter
which they can relate it to it's personal life then it won't be possible for the person to gain
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skills in readability. If subject matter is not having any example then it is the
responsibility of a person to find by themselves in order to improve the skills. Examples
like relating to the personal life, professional life, friendship life, love life, parental life
and many more. These examples builds the person in terms of their thinking capacity and
observing power for better growth and development (Pae, 2019).
Suggestions that helps students to improve the quality of their written projects Concepts should be clear: This is an important aspect before writing something. Because
unless a person's concepts are not clear then it won't be possible for them to write in a
proper manner. Normally every literate person can write but skills are more important in
writing to be more creative and innovative. Grammar and English statements must be
appropriate to look better and this is needed to enhance the skills. Before writing, one
should keep in mind about the understanding a concept because writing rubbish makes no
sense while developing the skills in writing. Therefore, one must makes sure about
conceptual part while writing some projects or content. Make writing structure: This point is essential, as without any structure of writing, skills
cannot be gained. Because every project is having a defined structure, it is important to
follow that. If one is not following that structure then their writing can be declared as
rubbish. So to overcome this point, have a brief understanding of what is to be written in
a format that is assigned. There are different types of project exist, and every project
contains a different format, so it is important to have a knowledge of every formal or
informal format before writing. This helps in improving the skills of writing in several
ways with various concepts and formats (Paul and Elder, 2019). Usage of simple words: This is one of the most important part to gain skills in writing.
Complexity in words makes the person difficulty in reading as well as in writing.
Therefore, it is important to make the sentences, phrases and words to keep it simple.
This helps in understanding better within the content or project. High ended vocabulary
makes people more sophisticated which should not be there in writing. Skilled writing is
one where clear meaning is defined of a concept, with simple, straight and easy phrases.
Hence, one can attain skills in writing if they develop all these qualities while writing. Practising writing on different topics: Direct skills cannot be gained without practising
for it. Although there are various steps, strategies and ways for skilled writing but
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practising is a must. Person must take topics of their interest or without interest using it's
personal surroundings and through internet. Interested topic is somewhat easy to write
but one needs to face challenge in the non interested topic because there is a lot
difference between gaining an interest or searching for an interest. Finding an interest
much more difficult and typical. Therefore, Practising tough things can help more to a
person who is willing to be skilled in writing the projects (Rubaiat, 2018). Thinking before writing: Thinking is another skill in writing concept. Without having
any thinking power, one cannot improve it's writing skills. It includes observation and
analytical skills also. Writing skills requires quality content which is dependent on
thinking skills. Until and unless thinking power of a person is not proper and accurate,
writing can be difficult for them. Positive and calm thinking is needed in writing
something because it needs peaceful mind so that the words and sentences formation
could be perfect by the writer. There are various types of thinking like practical,
emotional, technical, calculable, analytical and many more. Usage of these types makes
writing skills more enhanced for the person.
 Smooth flow in writing: This point is totally relatable to the quality content in a project.
Good writing is considered when there is a proper flow in writing, no words breaking,
statements relatable to one another, meaningful phrases and many more. Attainment of
this makes a person a skilled writer, but it is not easy in grabbing, it needs a practise a lot.
Because proper and accurate flow of writing is itself a separate skill. It is also related to
the structured writing, one and a similar but not same. Bad writing can be the mistakes in
vocabulary, sentence formation, meaningless phrases and many more. Hence, it is
important to take care of these points for a skilled writing a project (Willinsky, 2017).
CONCLUSION
It is concluded that reading and writing skills are important to gain in life to be successful
in life. As it makes a sign of impression to the seniors and for the self development also. All the
strategies and suggestions which are discussed in this report must be followed by every student
so that they can obtain better skills in reading and writing. Moreover, it can help the person to be
a successful personality in it's life of what they desire for.
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References:
Books and Journals:
Durga, V.S.S. and Rao, C.S., 2018. Developing students’ writing skills in English: A process
approach. Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language
Teaching. 2(6)., p.108.
Goodall Jr, H.L., 2018. Writing qualitative inquiry: Self, stories, and academic life. Routledge.
Oxenham, J., 2017. Literacy: writing, reading and social organisation. Routledge.
Pae, T.I., 2019. A simultaneous analysis of relations between L1 and L2 skills in reading and
writing. Reading Research Quarterly. 54(1). pp.109-124.
Paul, R. and Elder, L., 2019. The international critical thinking reading and writing test.
Rowman & Littlefield.
Rubaiat, S., 2018. The effectiveness of task based language teaching in improving ESL learners’
reading and writing skills (Doctoral dissertation, BRAC University).
Willinsky, J., 2017. The new literacy: Redefining reading and writing in the schools. Routledge.
Online:
Benefits of Reading & Writing Skills. 2019. Available through
<https://education.gov.gy/web/index.php/parenting-tips/item/2030-benefits-of-reading-
writing-skills>./
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