1. Three Important Skills For
Academic Studies.
By: Lowrance Ladu
Student ID: 18404140

2. 1. Time Management
What is time management?
• The way that you organize and plan
how much time you spend on specific
activities.

3. What is it about?
• Effective scheduling of your time
• Goal setting
• Analyzing and reviewing your spent time
• Motivating yourself to work towards a goal
• Prioritizing and choosing what to do and what
not to do
• Delegating tasks

4. Benefits of good time management.
• Less stress
• A better professional reputation
• Greater opportunities to achieve goals
• increased opportunities for advancement
• Greater productivity and efficiency

5. Consequences of bad time
management
• Missed deadlines
• Insufficient work flow
• Poor work quality
• A poorer professional reputation
• Higher stress levels

6. 2. Referencing
What is referencing?
• Acknowledging work done by somebody else.

7. Why is it important to reference?
• Supports and strengthens your work
• refer to other research that leads up to your
study
• To validate and add credibility to your writing
• Demonstrates that you have done research
• Acknowledge the source of information to
avoid plagiarism

8. Consequences of not referencing
• Plagiarism
Failing and being dropped from your unit
Getting expelled from university

9. 3. Note Taking
What is note taking?
• the practice of writing down pieces of
information in a systematic way

10. Why is note taking important
• Useful record
• Helps understanding
• Helps examine revision
• Helps memory
• Helps writing

11. Reference list
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