Study Skills for Higher Education: Academic Skills and Goals

This essay delves into the critical importance of study skills for higher education, focusing on their role in career development and academic success. It highlights the main reasons for pursuing a degree at a university, emphasizing the acquisition of transferable skills and the development of technological proficiency. The essay further outlines core academic skills such as learning styles, paraphrasing, academic writing, note-taking, time management, and communication, explaining their significance in fostering deep understanding and preparing students for the global economy. A detailed study plan with short-term and long-term goals is presented, offering practical strategies for improving reading, communication, paraphrasing, academic writing, note-taking, and time management skills. The essay concludes by reiterating the importance of effective study skills for personal and professional growth, emphasizing their role in achieving career goals and succeeding in higher education. The essay also mentions about the Michigan State University.

Study Skills for higher
education

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODYESSAY......................................................................................................................1
1. Explaining the main reasons for studying a degree at university............................................1
2. Explaining the core academic skills that can be developed and why they are important.......1
3) Study plan that includes the short term and long term goals..................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Study skills are the most important element that helps an individual to build their
professional career plan. This enable individual to study and helps to fulfill the learning
requirements. Present study is based on the academic skills and how much it is useful for
students to get admission in Michigan State University. Further, study will be explaining about
the main reasons for studying a degree at University. Besides, it also helps to develop the core
academy skills that can be developed and why they are important in career development. At the
end of the section, research is also supporting the same short term and long-term goals that will
be most fruitful for personal development.
MAIN BODY
1. Explaining the main reasons for studying a degree at university.
The foremost reason to study in university is to learn transferral skills. In other words, the
skills that student learn is very helpful to get opportunities in future and desired outcomes of the
individual (Adger Snow and Christian, eds., 2018). Besides, another major reason to get study
from university is to get the desirable job in the future. Overall, all these learning provide goals-
oriented outcomes and results that makes good impact on the personal growth as well.
Another main reason for the student to get study from the institution is to get to know
about the use of technology that been given the best impact on the personality. In modern time,
companies are hiring people who well understand the use of new technologies.
Combine passion and desired results is another reason for which students should get
engaged with the University. Such as if student want to make career in business so they need to
develop their interest and target goals in order to meet out the career objective and goals.
2. Explaining the core academic skills that can be developed and why they are important.
To learn study skills such as Learning styles, Paraphrasing, Academic writing, Note
taking, Time management and communication are very much necessary for students to grab and
explore career opportunity (Best and Kahn, 2016). All these skills should be learned by the
student to get deep understanding of the concepts involved in the system. Communication skills
is required to be developed in order to make the good relation and networks (Study skills for
students, 2019).
Academic skills are required to be developed in order to gain the theoretical knowledge
for the further implications process. Reason learning has always given the deep understanding
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when new and existing knowledge is structured around the major concepts and principles of the
discipline (Cottrell, 2017).
All these skills required to behave in order to giving the best outcomes and career
outcomes. In other words, learning consists different strategies, approaches and pattern of
abilities and learning styles that helps in interaction process in order to get the good experience.
Core academic skills are very important to work or make student prepared for the global
economy. All these core skills also help student in different situations such as to resolve the
problem solving, Creativity, Analytic thinking, Collaboration, Communication etc. (Glatthorn,
Jailall and Jailall, 2016).
3) Study plan that includes the short term and long-term goals
Short term goals: These are the skills which needs to be accomplish soon and from all
the academic skills, learning style, Note taking, academic writing is the short-term goals which
needs to be achieved in short time.
Long term goals: These are those skills which needs to be attain for a longer term such
that paraphrasing, critical thinking and time management and analytical thinking or problem
solving.
Skills needs to be
developed
Action to be taken Resources Time scale
Reading  Meta-cognition is the best
strategy that helps to increase the
reading skills it means that to
think and also have the control
over their reading which helps to
identify the difficulties occurs.
 Reading in small portion also
helps to overcome the issues.
 Start making notes and then read
a small portion also help to solve
the issue.
Books and notes Should
done at
Regular
basis
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Communication  To improve communication skill,
start attending classes that helps
to improve written and oral
communication (Hart, 2018).
 Always speak in front of group
 Start participating in group
activities
 start presenting presentation in
classrooms
Trainer, mentor,
articles
On daily
basis
Paraphrasing  Start reading the entire para to
understand the meaning (Hew,
2016).
 Use own structure sentence that
even help to improve the oral
communication.
Books and reading 15-20 days
Academic writing  Start attending training session to
understand the use of punctuation
and grammar.
 Use right vocabulary
 Avoid repetition
 start using formal language
 Also take help of elders to cross
check the writing skills
Mentor, trainers Done at
regular
basis.
Note taking  Always use one side of the paper
which helps to understand what
exactly written in notes (Hew,
2016).
 Start developing a system of
abbreviation and symbols
whenever it is possible.
Mentor Regular
basis at
weekly
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 Start making short notes in brief
with bullets (Soulé and Warrick,
2015).
 Take help of mentor to write
correct form of notes.
Time management  To improve the time
management, start delegating the
task and prioritize the work which
helps to complete the task which
is needed urgently (Suskie, 2018).
 Scheduling the task and start set
up deadlines.
 Avoid procrastination is an
effective method to manage or
improve the time management
skills.
 Avoid multitasking
Mentor, Regular
from
Monday to
Sunday.
CONCLUSION
By summing up above report it has been concluded that having an effective study skill
help in the growth and development of a person in future. Further, report concluded on
importance and effectiveness of academic skills. The study outlined that for individual, it is
necessary to study a degree in order to attain the career path and future goals. Thus, assignment
concluded by demonstrating the importance of study skill and study plan to improve study skills
for higher education.
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REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Adger, C. T., Snow, C. E. and Christian, D. eds., 2018. What teachers need to know about
language. Multilingual Matters.
Best, J. W. and Kahn, J. V., 2016. Research in education. Pearson Education India.
Cottrell, S., 2017. Critical thinking skills: Effective analysis, argument and reflection. Macmillan
International Higher Education.
Glatthorn, A. A., Jailall, J. M. and Jailall, J. K., 2016. The principal as curriculum leader:
Shaping what is taught and tested. Corwin Press.
Hart, C., 2018. Doing a literature review: Releasing the research imagination. Sage.
Hew, K. F., 2016. Promoting engagement in online courses: What strategies can we learn from
three highly rated MOOCS. British Journal of Educational Technology. 47(2). pp.320-341.
Soulé, H. and Warrick, T., 2015. Defining 21st century readiness for all students: What we know
and how to get there. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 9(2). p.178.
Online
Study skills for students. 2019. [Online]. Available through: <
https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/about/student-study-skills>.
Suskie, L., 2018. Assessing student learning: A common sense guide. John Wiley & Sons.
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