London School of Commerce Study Skills Essay: Core Academic Skills

This essay, prepared for the Business Foundation Level at the London School of Commerce (LSC) in association with the University of Suffolk, delves into the multifaceted aspects of study skills for higher education. The essay begins by outlining the primary motivations for pursuing a university degree, emphasizing factors such as high-quality teaching, scholarship opportunities, and the development of communication and interpersonal skills. It then identifies and analyzes key core academic skills essential for student success, including academic discourse, text strategies, and composition. The essay also proposes a practical study plan incorporating both short-term and long-term skill development strategies. The conclusion reinforces the importance of these skills for overall student development and professional success.

High Education
Assessment One

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
1.What are the main reasons to have the study the university degree?........................................1
2.What are major core academic skills that is needed to be developed along with their
importance?..................................................................................................................................1
3. Development of study plan which have the inclusion of short term and long term skills
along with developing and acquiring the knowledge and necessary skills..................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION.
Higher educations have the importance in the sustainable and economic development.
Knowledge is the having the focus point with its application in which the institution makes the
major contribution through fostering innovation higher skills increment (Malik and
Venkatraman, 2017). This will help in the improvement in quality of life and addressing the
major challenges at social and global level. In this repost there will be discussion regarding the
major reasons to have the study in university degree along with major core academic skills that is
having the importance for development. The repost will also have the development of study plan
in order to have the achievement of short term and long term skills.
MAIN BODY.
1.What are the main reasons to have the study the university degree?
There are the many reasons among the student to have the persuasion of the study in
university. This could have the inclusion of high quality of teaching and availability of
scholarship turning out to major factors for choosing the survey. According to the international
survey have also helped in getting more factor for choosing the university. There is major role as
per the university position stationing maximum satisfaction to students. The reasons also
facilitated that students are more passionate with the continuation of the learning and
development. In the universities the student have the colleges having the shared passion and
experiences. The student get the opportunities for the development of the communication and
interpersonal skills to build the instant professional network (Casey and et.al., 2018). The
university teaching will encourage the student to have the independence along with building
confidence in their own idea. The relationship of universities and students is not just limited to
academic. It also builds confidence as one of ranges of skills which will have impact on major
areas of professionalism of students. The university have broadens the horizon fort students by
development of advance skills so that the students can take up the major opportunities for the
overseas experience. In university the students can gain degree which will increase and
improvement the career prospectus with wider varsity of career options. This will make the faster
progress faster and moving up ladders. There is improvement in the employment skills of
students in having the gain in depth knowledge. The skill that is needed to developed by students
such as the transferable and interpersonal skills. There are a dozen of extra-curricular activities
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which will have the boost over enjoyment and help in making long time connection with their
fellow mates belonging to different backgrounds' ad cultures. The university studying will add
memorable experience in developing the professional skill and over all development of students.
2.What are major core academic skills that is needed to be developed along with their
importance?
The development of the core academic skill's development plays an important role is
having the focus on primary, secondary and the post secondary education at general level to have
the proper curricular and coursework (Ghosh, 2015). The development of these skills leads to
have the academic disciplines for having necessary foundation in future learning. The students
should have the proficiency in reading, writing ans the mathematics that is to be learnt to grab
more advanced grades along with specialization in employment. The skill that is needed to
developed by students such as the transferable and interpersonal skills. For better understanding
there should be development of the academic skills.
1. Academic Discourse.
The skill that is been developed to have the proper communication more effectively to have the
hard critical analysis over debate discussion and the presentation. This will make the overlook
easy for students to have the active listening skills. So that the students can deal with difficult
level of questions.
2. Academic Text Strategies
The skill us about having the proper analysis of the academic text in greater level of details
which creates encouragement about the students to have the read between lines along with
deeper meaning,
3. Academic Strategies
The skills have the proper understanding towards critical responding over lectures for the
development of strategies (Ahlburg, 2018)
. The effective skill of not making should be properly considerable before the students' purser for
further education.
4. Composition
The skills for the development of academic skills for having the effective academic writing for
the production of the coherent arguments as the vital skill for learners in higher education along
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with practice. The students should be having the recitation of arguments to their peers along with
providing feedbacks in having logical thinking.
5. Comprehension
The establishment of the skills for the better understanding in academic text and lectures to have
the proper understanding of academic text is needed to have developed in geochronological
order.
3. Development of study plan which have the inclusion of short term and long term skills along
with developing and acquiring the knowledge and necessary skills.
Skills Plan time
Academic Text
Strategies
The uses of the short videos or pictures to have the real
identification of real meaning of the photo. There should be
proper interferences of characters, plotting off different aspects
and framing the story based on evidence from text.
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Academic
Strategies
There should be the use of TED Talks so that proper note making
can take place when they watch videos. There should be proper
small group making to which will have the recreation of video.
The further extinction of task can be the groups will summaries
the notes to ave tweet at higher group level and covert to own
words.
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CONCLUSION.
Form the above report it can be concluded that the student get the opportunities for
development of communication and interpersonal skills to build the instant professional network.
The university teaching will encourage the student to have the independence along with building
confidence in their own idea (O'Neill, 2015). There are varsity of skills that is needed to be
developed in asnstude3nst to achieve the various objective of professionalism and over all
development. The skill has their own importance in building up the skills for longer period. The
study plan will have tin achieving the long and short terms goals of a student along with
increasing the level of productivity.
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Ahlburg, D., 2018. Why going to university in Britain is still a wise investment. British Politics
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Ghosh, M., 2015. ROLE OF EDUCATION PLANNING FOR THE SKILL DEVELOPMENT
OF HUMAN RESOURCE AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL ECONOMY AND
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Casey, K. amd et.al., 2018. Skill Versus Voice in Local Development (No. w25022). National
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Malik, G. and Venkatraman, A., 2017. “The great divide”: skill gap between the employer’s
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