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Study Skills for the Digital Environment

Assignment 3


Summary

        The purpose of this report is to analyze each of the seven common skills and to see how I have improved in each area. Over the course of the academic year, several tasks were set in order to improve skills. Self assessments were completed at the beginning and end of the academic year to see whether improvements had been made or not. This report will take a more detailed look into the tasks set and how each task helped to develop the common skills.

        

SUMMARY        

INTRODUCTION        

ASSESSMENT OF COMMON SKILLS        

Managing and Developing Self        

Working With and Relating to Others        

Communicating        

Managing Tasks and Solving Problems        

Applying Numeracy        

Applying Technology        

Applying Design and Creativity        

CONCLUSION        

BIBLIOGRAPHY        

APPENDICES        


Introduction

        This report is an assessment on myself. It will cover my development in each of the seven common skills that have been covered in the academic year. Over the course of the year several tasks have been set in order to improve these skills and to aid studies in other subjects. In this report, each of these skills will be looked at individually to see how I have improved and how doing so has benefited my work.


Assessment of Common Skills

        Each of the common skills has been assessed over the course of the academic year. Tasks were set in order to challenge and improve on the skills. Personal improvements have been recorded in the self assessment found in the appendices of this report.

Managing and Developing Self

        In this area, time management was high on the list of priorities. It was felt that with much better organisation, tasks could be completed more easily and to a much better standard. In this particular area I have found it difficult to improve as more often than not, tasks set are left to the last minute and as a result are often rushed and not to the standard that I know I am capable of. As stated in the first self-assessment (appendix 1) ‘I usually start well but let it slip after a few weeks’. Unfortunately, this was again the case. As work started to pile up, it was often pushed aside and left as late as possible and I feel that little improvement has been made in my time management.

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        Another area I was keen to improve on was personal and career development. In this area we were aided by learning to write a CV and learning to write a report (such as this one). Before this course started, I had no previous experience of writing either a CV or a report and have found lectures and tutorials a great help. Both a CV and a report were completed for assignment 1 and since further reports have been written to accompany other assignments. Each time I have felt that my report writing is becoming stronger.

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