UWTSD Report: Developing Academic Skills in Verbal Communication

This report emphasizes the significance of academic skills, particularly verbal communication, for student success in higher education. It details the benefits of strong verbal communication, including self-advocacy, emotional bonding, increased understanding, and enhanced teamwork. The report further suggests strategies for developing these skills, such as active listening, seeking feedback, and being clear and concise in communication. Ultimately, it concludes that mastering verbal communication is crucial for students aiming to achieve academic excellence and build a solid foundation for their future careers. Desklib provides past papers and solved assignments to help students further improve their academic performance.

Academic Skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK ONE......................................................................................................................................3
Explaining four benefits of an academic skill required for success in higher education studies3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Academic skill are type of strategies that are applied for learning and hence it is essential
for every student to develop this skill on timely manner to achieve higher excellence in all future
projects. Also, the present report will discuss the significance of the verbal communication skills
in achieving certain professional goals in education and will also highlight the benefits of using
such skill to achieve positive outcome in the future. Lastly, study will provide three suggestion
that might be used by diverse students to develop and use these skills in higher studies so that
greater team building is built and best outcomes are derived in the end
TASK ONE
Explaining four benefits of an academic skill required for success in higher education studies
Academic skills are important part of the student development as it helps them to learn
various new things in best of manner. Also, these skills helps the learners to succeed in the future
higher studies through building up certain abilities and strategies. Moreover, academic skill
allow the students to retain and gain knowledge from various other sources so that best learning
is ensured in due course of time (Sudin and et.al., 2021). Furthermore, one best academic skill
that is discussed on the report is verbal communication skills that would allow to establish the
best interaction with groups of people in all aspects of life. Also, it can be seen that students
who are not able to communicate properly tends to miss the important informations and always
work on their personal perceptions and beliefs. Moreover, the major four benefits of verbal
communication in education are as follows:
Advocate themselves: If the communication skill is stronger than it would allow the
student to prove it points to others in clear and concise manner without creating any kind of
confusion (Numonjonova, 2022). Furthermore, the student would be able to easily explain to
others in challenging times without creating stress. Thus, the verbal communication helps in
solving the problems both in personal and professional life in easier manner.
Allows bonding on emotional level: For students UWTSD-Birmingham the best
communication skill would allow in building the great bond with teachers and peers whom the
student is working. Also, through great bonds the students would be able to stay calm and
relaxed in difficult times as good support from others would be available. Furthermore,
interacting with others also build up the networking that might would be helpful in complex
times.

Increased understanding of messages: Most of the times students that are not able to
communicate properly create higher level of misunderstanding among people. Also, effective
verbal communication helps in explaining the new ideas to professors or other students and also
at times able to answer few of the questions that are been asked during the learning sessions
(Sutiyatno, 2018). Thus, verbal communication gives clear understanding of the idea that is to be
conveyed and also able to provide the valuable reasons for the same.
Enhancement in teamwork: Verbal communication are good source for the students to
effectively work in team as it would allow in making the clarity of the roles that are been
assigned to them and would also help in collecting the feedback from the team members on the
work that is done by them (Cerit, Çıtak Bilgin and Ak, 2018). Also, through such teamwork and
communication students are able to develop higher level of professionalism and build
collaborative attitude that is required for achieving greater success in the future.
Hence, it can be said that verbal communication especially for the students is beneficial
so that more opportunities are grabbed and carter is developed in the best way for higher studies.
Also, for the students that are lacking this skill need to develop over the period so that not many
difficulties are faced in the future (Wahyuni, 2018). Also, there are certain suggestions that
would help in development of this skill in systematic manner and also these need to be practice
on regular basis by students to gain success. The first one that is been suggested is being active
listener that would allow hearing and understand all the points said by others in well-defined
manner. Furthermore, listening is always good before establishing right interaction with any
other students or professor as if listening is not proper than communication would be purely
based on certain personal beliefs and interpretations. Moreover, being the active listener will
encourage the students to ask more questions within the class and create heathy learning
environment. Another one that is been suggested to students is collecting feedback from the
professors and tutors that would help them to not only work on the area of the improvement but
would also help in establishing right interaction with full confidence that is essential for the
personal growth and success in the future (How To Improve Effective Communication Skills In
Students, 2022). Furthermore, feedback would also help the students in building the immense
trust of teachers and would encourage them to share their thoughts with them on more frequent
basis that is good for creating harmony in carrying out various tasks. Also, being concise and
clear is another method that is suggested to future students that would allow establishing the best

communication with any individuals. Thus, the students should not use long sentences that make
the meaning of the message vague and unclear. Also, students should focus using only those
words that are easy and simple to understand. Furthermore, it should be habit of the students to
ask the other party if he/ she had understood the meaning of the message after completing the
sentence so that there are no confusions later in the future.
Hence, for university students it is very much required that verbal communication is
developed in the best manner to have positive outcomes in the future. Also, participating in
speeches, reading more boos and articles aloud will also help in opening the mind and the will
assure that communication is done while having the broad perspective over the things in general.
Furthermore, good verbal communication will help the students to build up strong bonds and
will also help them to solve thongs independently through asking various questions (Nelyahardi
and et.al., 2019). Also, it would allow them to discover new things that they have never heard of
earlier. Moreover, good academic skills helps in building up the confidence, self-esteem and
competence to solve al the complex life situation in brave manner. Furthermore, developing
effective studying skills would help students to cut down the normal hours that is spent on
studying and would allow focusing on other essential activities in life. Also, students with help
of the verbal communication would be able to develop strategies so that higher results are
achieved in the end. Furthermore, with the effective verbal communication students would be
able to become effective landers in the future and lead the team of diverse people that is further
good for professional growth and success in the future
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that academic skill are the great source of
learning and development of the students that wish to achieve higher gaols in the future. Also,
the report had described in detail about importance of verbal communication skill in achieving
garter height of success. Also, it had suggested three points like feedback, being clear and
concise and active listeners to develop this skill in systematic manner. Lastly, the benefits of
such skill for higher education and course had also been covered in this report in detail.

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Nelyahardi, N. and et.al., 2019, December. The Process of Verbal Communication in Ethnic
Malay and Batak: A Case Study. In 5th International Conference on Education and
Technology (ICET 2019) (pp. 638-641). Atlantis Press.
Numonjonova, Z., 2022. IMPROVING VERBAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS WITH THE
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Sudin, M. and et.al., 2021, February. Improve Mathematics Pedagogical Content Knowledge and
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Sutiyatno, S., 2018. The effect of teacher's verbal communication and non-verbal
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Wahyuni, A., 2018, January. The power of verbal and nonverbal communication in learning.
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