Enhancing Study Skills in Higher Education: A Comprehensive Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of essential study skills for higher education, focusing on the benefits of university education in developing career options and enhancing communication, writing, and critical thinking abilities. It emphasizes the importance of the foundation year in experiencing career prospects and gaining various learning skills, including real, kinaesthetic, writing, and visual styles. The report details the core skills required, such as paraphrasing, oral communication, and academic writing, and highlights the significance of note-taking and self-regulated learning. It includes a sample study plan designed to improve skills in paraphrasing, communication, and note-taking, with short-term and long-term goals. The report concludes by stressing the importance of consistent practice and skill enhancement for academic success and future opportunities, supported by references to relevant academic literature.

Study Skills for Higher
Education

INTRODUCTION
In recent case scenario, University Education benefits a person to have wide career
options. In addition with this by gaining knowledge from universities helps individuals to
become independent and gain more cultural and social experiences. One of the key essential
reason to study in University is that it remarkably benefits student to build efficiency in their
oral, communication and writing skill. All these skills can be effectively enhanced by taking
proper and effective immediate guidance. Present report include, formative discussions on,
foundation year importance. In addition with this report include core necessary skills that are
required to be considered by students in their initial foundation year. Lastly, project report covers
formative aspects of study plan that further benefits in learning style development.
MAIN BODY
University education effectively benefits an individual in extreme competitive
environment and allow them to enjoy career path of their own choice. By studying in university
students can overcome intellectual challenges that will further lead towards developing formative
sense of achievement. In addition with this university educations helps in strengthening
confidence level of an individual by increasing their internal and well as external capabilities.
Foundation year offers individual to experience career prospectives in more committing manner.
By gaining knowledge from universities students can allow themselves to learn various skills in
best effective supportive environment. It will offer individuals to gain more developmental job
opportunities in both private and government sector units. As there are numerous forms of jobs
offered by private and government sector organisations for freshly graduate students. In this
modern days, there are various form of learning skills that include, real, Kinaesthetic, writing and
visual. All these skills are required to be consider by students in the process of competing their
degree in university. As degree consist great importance in a student life as it helps in increasing
their inner confidence that lead towards challenging more opportunities.
With the help of college education students can effectively increase their level of
confidence which lead towards allowing them to make decisions in a relax manner without any
unusual force. In addition with this, it is essential for students to consider numerous range of core
skills that are related to, paraphrasing, oral learning styles, communication and academic writing
in the process of competing degree in University. By evaluating these skills students can gain
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formative opportunities to become leader, successful employee and business manager in an
organisation. One of the most important reason to consider writing skills is that it helps in
formulating mails to senior level peers and officials. It effectively benefits in communicating
information in clear and defined way. In addition with this oral skills lead towards benefiting
students to make best effective form of communication while in the procedure of lectures taking
in University classes. It will directly helps in resolving some serious issues that create numerous
obstacles in students study process. Along with this, paraphrasing is one of the key essential
element that helps an individual to perfectly translate some other individual words in own
language in well defined manner. It benefits students to paraphrase lectures notes that is related
to lecture saying in well defined manner. Moreover, individual can not learn all the form of
learning styles. For this they are require to effectively undertake their own learning styles that
will further aid them to perform their work in a well defined manner. By increasing effectiveness
of these skills individuals can easily able to increase further efficiency of their future aspects that
lead them towards gaining more developmental opportunities.
Note Taking acts as an key essential part that benefits an individual to effectively put
their focus on main important points of lecture which is given to them by University. This will
effectively benefits students to consider have well effective proper look on key essential major
points that will directly aid in focusing on key essential keywords before exams in order to go
through to whole chapter in a well defined timely manner. In this present report, a study plan has
included which is formulated by an individual by evaluating weaknesses that has been faced in
paraphrasing, communication and note taking skills. In this report, individual focus in increasing
effectiveness of these skills are covered such as, paraphrasing, note taking and communication.
Mentioned below there is an study plan designed that consist short and long term goals.
May 29, 2019
11:00 AM
To practice English Speaking classes in addition with regular
reading of University books for almost 6 months along with practice
reading skill more than 4 hours in a day on simultaneous basis.
May 29, 2019
12:00 AM
To practice paraphrasing on regular manner by taking help from
articles in order to increase present skill in mainly 8 days.
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CONCLUSION
As per the above mentioned report, it has been concluded that university study helps an
individual to increase area of future opportunities in a well effective way. By practising skills on
regular basis individuals can effectively able to increase efficiency in well effective manner.
Thus, it becomes essential for an individual to focus on enhancing effectiveness of these skills as
failures in this can lead a person towards facing numerous form of difficulties. Thus, by focusing
on skills on regular basis individuals can increase their confidence in best effective manner.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Lai, C., Shum, M., and Tian, Y., 2016. Enhancing learners’ self-directed use of technology for
language learning: the effectiveness of an online training platform. Computer Assisted
Language Learning, 29(1). 40-60.
Murphy, S. E., and Johnson, S. K., 2016. Leadership and leader developmental self‐efficacy:
Their role in enhancing leader development efforts. New directions for student
leadership. 2016(149). 73-84.
Nilson, L., 2013. Creating self-regulated learners: Strategies to strengthen students? self-
awareness and learning skills. Stylus Publishing, LLC.
Saltman, D., 2012. Student-directed learning comes of age.The Education Digest. 77(7). 4.
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