Developing Strong Academic Study Skills

English Composition I has developed my style of writing and my skills analyzing and researching topics to write a piece about a topic. Throughout the course, I got better at analyzing articles and pieces to get the meaning of the topic. With that improved skill I was more able to use the information given from the text and install it into my essays, with proper citation if needed. Before taking the English Composition course, I was not one to organize my essays in an ordeal order to clearly state the point of the work. Now with taking the course, I have learned to organize my essays, examine research for a topic, and develop an essay with proper mechanics, and revising skills. In writing my personal, review, analytical, and cultural

Personally, from the class of English 1101, I have learned on how to use the writing processes effectively, where the first step is to have a pre-write, which focuses on brainstorming ideas form either the group or from individuals’ brain for the required topic. The second phase of the process is the thesis statement, which is the primary idea of the entire essay. I discovered that the thesis statement should be persuasive and truthful. The third step is on developing drafts, where it showed me on how to focus on content, organization, and style. Again, I noted that I must ask myself who is my audience, and what do they want or need to hear.

When I started my first semester of college, I was very worried about writing essays and research papers. I felt like my writing skills lacked greatly compared to other students. I knew a few things of which I could improve on right off the bat, such as my vocabulary skills and organizational skills. To say the least I was very nervous about how my writing composition course would be like and did not think it would go very well for me. However, I learned so many techniques that have helped my writing skills grow. It all started with learning how to stay organized, planning what to write in your essay in outline form and sticking to it really helped when writing essays. These techniques helped me become more confident in my essays and allowed writing essays to become a lot easier. The few aspects in which I am strong in while writing essays is my ability to stay organized, focused and be very clear about what I am writing. Nonetheless, there is always room for improvement; a few things that I can think of being grammar and punctuation due to no revising, embedding quotes smoothly, and citing sources correctly.

There are different types of study skills and ways to help you succeed in school, business, or workplace environment. One way to figure out which skill works best for you is to try them all out. The study skill that best fit for me is, note taking. Note taking is the practice of writing down information that is useful and important in an orderly way. In this paper I will explain to you more about note taking, how I use this study skill, how this skill is helpful to me, how I will use it in everyday life, what classes I use this study skill in, when I use it while studying, why it is important to try new study skills, and how it has helped me this week.

Focusing on reading comprehension by having the child fill-in-the blank for various questions regarding understanding of previously read materials;

However note taking during lectures, after lectures, from text books, articles and journals is somewhat hard. One way to improve on my note taking skills would be by highlighting key words. Highlighting key words will assist focusing my attention on the text; it will also be time efficient as there will be no need to read through the whole text (Chambers, 2001). Critically reflecting has helped me to improve and refine my note taking skills as I have found a suitable technique to develop on this particular skill. Using critical self-reflection on my study skills such as note taking has permitted me to once again find effective tactics to overcome my difficulty in making notes.

Secondly, coming to do an assignment I do not plan my work out onto paper which can be a bit hard to recollect the information I need for the work, I have not learnt a way to mid map that has stuck with me, I can turn this problem around by going to Learning@Griffith and under the other courses tab there is a CCJ essay writing help which has a section for organising you notes. Finally, when it comes to assignment questions I do not break the question down to form a better understanding of what is being said because I am not too sure how to do it properly but by having read through Griffith University Study Smart putting it together tab it has given me the knowledge to better understand an essay question and how to break it down in the right

The role of critical thinking skills and learning styles of university students in their academic

Edward George Bulwer Lytton, an English novelist, once said, “The pen is mightier than the sword,” which means words are more powerful and effective than weapons in achieving one’s purpose. In essay writing, however, words alone are not enough. The intrinsic worth of the ideas you present in your essay would be denigrated unless these concepts are clearly stated and are easily followed. Essays have a standardized structure containing the introduction, the body, and the conclusion which assists the readers to effortlessly find the information most relevant to them. Moreover, effectively written essays are cohesive and have a logical flow.

In the class, we need to write analytical essays with critical thinking based on the content of the article that we read in the textbook. Before we write the essay, we need to decide which topic is the best and do the research and analyze the material. For example, in the out-class writing, “Changes in Chinese Family Value”, I need to search the changes of Chinese family value in ancient and modern times and choose three main changes to illustrate in my essay. What's more, in the in-class writing, “The Reasons Why China Has a Strong Economy”, I need to think about the reasons for the increase of China’s economy and how these reasons improve the China’s economy. Critical thinking benefits me to choose an appropriate topic and promotes my analyze

“OMG I’m gonna fail, I know it!” doesn’t this sound all too familiar to you? It’s known as the “I’m not good enough” syndrome. Everyone has fears. It’s quite natural. The great American industrialist Henry Ford said “if you think you can, or think you can’t – you are right!” what he was saying is that intention and expectation shape our actions. Good morning everybody, firstly I would like to welcome you to the senior year of study that will round off your secondary school. It is the year that will lead either to further study or to the learning experiences of the workplace. I believe many of you, by this time you should have set up your personal goal. In order to achieve your goal, you firstly need to overcome your fears and you attain effective study skills.

In this assignment I am going to reflect on my development within the study skills module. Throughout the module I have learnt about many different forms of study skills and aids to be able study effectively. I feel that I do still have a lot to learn about them and how they will help with my future studies. Coming back into study after such a long break was very daunting for me, but once I settled in I knew I had all the tools needed to help with my studies I just had to improve upon them. I have chosen to write about three subjects that I feel have helped me the most, these are Motivation, Learning Styles and Time Management. I feel that the use of these skills have helped me the

Over the course of all of my years in English classes, I was taught that there was no direct way to improve reading and writing skills by studying information. Instead, in order to improve, I had to practice. The ultimate cumulative goal of every English class that I have taken has always been to master spelling, grammar, reading, writing, and analyzing. Even with all of the practice and advice from peers and teachers, I still had and have lots of room for improvement in all of the aforementioned skills. For all of the three assigned essays in this course, I made a goal to correctly complete the assignment and to include all of the necessary components of a standard essay, such as a topic sentence, evidence, analysis, a thesis, and examples. Despite my knowledge of and intent to present these components in the best way I could, I made errors, and through the process of the reflection project, I was able to reexamine these errors and correct them with a new perspective after having some time away from my second essay.

In this essay, I will critically discuss the some of these adjustments in terms of study skills, which I bring with me as my scholarship at university, and new skills I must develop. I will use two readings and two lectures as my references to support my thesis and main points. The thesis of my essay is first year students need their fundamental study skills to make the necessary adjustments to achieve their successful journey at university. The main points that will be outlined in this essay are the importance of becoming a critical thinker, verbal skill linked with academic writing and note taking skill is related to referencing skill.

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