Individual Report: Study Skills for Higher Education (LSC, 2020)

This individual report, prepared for the London School of Commerce (LSC) in association with the University of Suffolk, focuses on study skills for higher education. It begins by defining reading ability and its importance, then discusses strategies to enhance reading skills, including improving vocabulary, using context clues, breaking down readings, developing thinking strategies, and setting reading goals. The report then provides suggestions for improving the quality of written projects, such as focusing on preparation, considering examples, collecting data from authentic sources, and using correct language. The report emphasizes the significance of effective study skills for academic success and achieving desired goals. It concludes that strong reading skills are crucial for gathering information from written text efficiently and for improving the quality of written work, leading to better grades and overall academic performance.

Study Skills for Higher Education (-
Individual report )

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Discuss some strategies that students can use to improve their reading ability..........................1
Provide suggestions that will help students improve the quality of their written Project s.........3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
It is essential for student to have effective and efficient reading capabilities in order to
successfully and significantly perform academic practices. In university student have to do
various projects and assessment that required lots of reading. So it is crucial that student have
effective reading skill in order to carry out academic practices in better manner. It is important
for student to focus on the quality of project in order to accomplish higher grades as well as
correctly complete academic project (Cottrell, 2019). This report includes different strategies
that are needed to improve reading ability of the student. Apart from these different suggestions
to help student to improve the quality of their written project is also determined.
MAIN BODY
Discuss some strategies that students can use to improve their reading ability.
Reading ability can be describe as the skills and potential of individual to read, comprehend
and interpret written words in significant manner. This is consider as one of the essential skills
that should be with in the student. This skill of a student is very supportive in carry out different
academic practices and task in more effective way as well as help in achieving desired objective.
Through significant reading skill or ability student is able to assimilate a written work or words
in short period of time while reading it as well as gaining significant knowledge and
understanding. It is crucial for a individual to develop or enhance reading abilities as this is a
lifelong activities and high reading abilities will help in gathering information form written
words or articles in less time frame. It is essential for student to develop or create effective
strategies that will assist in improving their capabilities to ready the text or gather meaning for
written page or article (Assiter, 2017). There are different strategies that are supportive in
developing reading ability which are mention below in detail –
 Improve vocabulary – Vocabulary is very important to gain better understanding about
the written word. Students needs to have proper understanding what the words you are
perusing mean can improve your capacity to appreciate the importance of the content.
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Since understudies with helpless appreciation frequently have helpless jargon abilities
and see less of what they hear, it's useful to show the implications of new words using
multisensory methodologies like realistic coordinators, pictures, and memory aides.
Improving their general language aptitudes improves the probability that they will
comprehend the words they experience in composed content. Through this strategy,
student will be able to enhance vocabulary as well as improve reading potentials.
 Use context clues – Another strategy for improving reading capabilities of a student
includes context clues. Utilizing context clues of information is an incredible method to
comprehend what you are perusing regardless of whether you don't have the foggiest idea
about all the jargon being utilized. Setting hints can be found in the words and sentences
encompassing the word that you're curious about. To utilize setting signs, individual can
zero in on the key expressions or thoughts in a sentence and find the primary thought of a
sentence or passage dependent on this data (Howard and et.al, 2018). Through this
strategy reader will be able to gather nor accurate and appropriate information about the
reading text as well as successfully enhance reading capabilities.
 Break up the reading into smaller sections – It is important for the student to do
separating what you are perusing can help you feel less overpowered and give you a
superior possibility of genuinely fathoming the data in the content. On the off chance that
students are understanding longer or additionally testing text, consider separating it into
more modest segments (Becker and et.al., 2017). For instance, student could peruse two
passages all at once and afterward interruption to rapidly sum up what individual just
read in your brain. Separating what student are perusing can help you feel less
overpowered and give person a superior possibility of genuinely appreciating the data in
the content.
 Develop thinking strategies – When reader have vocabulary then they have the option to
text written in a book or other, they frequently battle with the unpredictable reasoning or
supported consideration needed to stay aware of the entirety of the significant subtleties
and to get to data that is inferred however not straightforwardly expressed. Educators can
train understudies on psychological systems they can utilize. By developing or increase
thinking strategies individual will be able to gather correct information about the written
text and they do not have to read it in more depth to find out the meaning of the message
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or written text (Wibrowski, Matthews and Kitsantas, 2017). By developing thinking
strategy capability and potential of a person to successfully or effectively read different
concept in more significant and successfully manner. This will directly increase the
potential of a person to ready more text in shorter time frame.
 Setting reading goals – It is very important for a person to develop effective objectives
and goals to read more text. Developing short term and long term goal is helpful for
successfully increasing capability of a person to read. This can help them make a move in
building understanding abilities and understudies will be more aware of how they are
improving. Goals will provide direction and guidance to person to successfully improve
potential of a student to read more.
Provide suggestions that will help students improve the quality of their written Project s.
Student have to do different types of written project in a University and it is essential that
student improves the quality of written project. This will assist person in increase potential to
gain higher grades in the academic studies as well as improve overall performance with in the
university. There are different suggestions that will assist student to improve the quality of their
written project in the University. Suggestions are mention below –
 Focus on the preparation – It is suggested to student to focus on the preparation not on
other aspects that is feedback or so on while conducting the written project. This is very
important and significant for a student to have proper preparation while performing the
project (Khan and et.al., 2020). Preparation will assist in successfully carry out the
activities of the written project and carry out all practices accurately. Effective and high
quality preparation will lead to assist in improving the overall quality of the written
project.
 Consider examples – Student can use the previous examples in order to improve the
overall performance or quality of the project. This will help in improving the capability
of student to conduct the project activities in effective and efficient manner.
Consideration of examples will lead to provide guidance and direction to the student
about how to do the project as well as how they can increase the quality of written
project. It is suggested to student to consider examples as well as take help form it in
order to increase overall performance and potential to perform the written project task.
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 Collect data form authentic sources – It is suggested to the student to gather or collect
data form authentic sources. This will be very helpful for the student to increase overall
quality of the written project (Flannery, Luebbe and Becker, 2017). Correct and
authentic data or information will directly lead to increase the trust ability of the
information provided in the written project. Through this overall quality of the project
will be directly enhanced and it will assist student to present the information written in
the project in successful manner.
 Use correct words and language – It is important that student is considering or using
correct words or language while conducting the written project (Heron, 2019). It is
suggested to student to consider right and appropriate words which is accurate as per the
needs of written project. Through this individual student is able to perform the practices
in successful manner as well as able to accomplish desired goals and objectives. Correct
words and language in written project is needed in order to improve its quality of
performance as well as help other to understand correct meaning.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that reading is one of the crucial ability that
needs to be within a student. This capability of a student is very supportive in attaining higher
grades as well as attaining desired goals. Reading is a lifelong activity for a person and by
developing strong and effective reading potential a person is able to gather accurate meaning
form the page of written words in less time. It is crucial for student to increase the quality of
written project as it will assist in gaining better grades. There are different projects that needs to
be performed by the student and improvement in the quality of written project will support in
successful performance of student.
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