Short Summary: Continuing Academic Success
Continuing Academic Success
Kimberly Holbrook
GEN 200
November 17, 2014
Nichol Garrison
Continuing Academic Success
Academic Success may not continue after you earn your degree, but what skills you learn will lead you to success in your career and at home. By utilizing your writing skills, your personal learning style, resources, and setting goals, you will succeed at any task you take on. Goal Setting for Academic Success
Setting goals for yourself during your academic career is an important step in success. By setting goals for time management, writing papers, and reading, you will develop good habits for learning. “Researchers have identified goal setting and self-regulated learning as crucial …show more content…
factors that affect academic achievement” (2007).
There are long term goals and short term goals.
Long term goals are what you want to achieve at the end of the process. Short term goals are easily reachable goals to get you to that long term goal. For instance my long term goal is to get a job in medical office management. To achieve my long term goal I have set a few short term goals. First I have to find a job in the health care industry. Then my next goal is to finish my degree in Health Care Management.
By setting goals students can learn more because it helps them focus on the goals they have set for themselves. Oxana D. Clark says “Goal setting improves student performance and enhances achievement by allocating attention, activating effort, increasing persistence and motivation which in turn leads to the development of self- regulation of skills”(2013).
The University of Phoenix has developed the five goals for learning also. They are Professional Competence and Values, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Communication, Information Utilization, and Collaboration (November, 2014). These goals can help you achieve not only academic success but also success in your professional life. Finding Your Personal Learning …show more content…
Style
Finding your personal learning style is a key to academic success. By learning how you learn, and finding ways to enhance your learning style, you will be able to increase the amount of information you are taking in.
There are several learning styles. These styles are Visual, Auditory, Moving, and Doing. A visual learner will learn by watching. An Auditory learner will learn by listening to the information. A person, who learns by moving, learns by just that moving around while they process information. And lastly the person learns by being hands on.
I have assessed my personal learning style, and found that I am a Visual learner.
I also learn by being hands on. By evaluating the way I learn I have been able to increase my input of information, thus becoming a better student. After my academic career I can apply my personal learning style to my professional career by being able to learn my job faster and become more proficient in my job. The Writing Process and Utilizing Resources
Being able to write papers that are clear and informative in your academic career will lead to success outside of school. Writing is another form of communication. You need to be able to communicate information to others whether you are in a classroom or boardroom.
You want to be able to avoid information overload by “incorporating the information in compact documents” (Julie & Lehr, Dece). Your employers and peers will appreciate it. By doing so will also make you a valuable employee.
When you gather information to communicate to others, you want to utilize all the available resources there are at your disposal. How ever when doing so you want to make sure the information comes from credible and reliable sources. Academic
Integrity
“Academic Integrity is a commitment even in the face of diversity to five fundamental values, trust, honesty, fairness, respect, and responsibility.(Keshane,1999)” From these five values come the principle behaviors that allow academic communities, to take ideas and put them into action.
When you incorporate academic integrity into your academic career you are setting up your core values. These values will follow you into your professional career and your social life. It is your responsibility as a student to be honest and trustworthy, and to respect others and there work. When a student is dishonest he/she is setting themselves up for failure in not only their academic career but also in life outside of school. Conclusion
Academic Success can continue on long after you are finished with school. Those who achieve Academic Success will be able to apply their learning skills to their professional career. They will also be able to communicate in writing, whether it is an email, or project presentation. This communication will be clear, concise and professional. They will be able to use all available reliable resources. And they will be an honest and trust worthy citizen and employee.
References
Julie, M., & Lehr, D. (December, 2007). Writing tips to Avoid Career Disaster. Cost Engineering, 49(12), 18-19. (November 2014). University Learning Goals [Video podcast]. Retrieved from http://newclassroom3.phoenix.edu/Classroom/#/contextid/OSIRIS:47763556/context/co/view/ActivityDetails/fc6428a1-2225-4c30-9675-eb97a0538fle/expanded/false
Clarke, O. D. (2013). LinguaFolio goal setting intervention and academic achievement: Increasing student capacity for self-regulated learning. (Order No. 3604640, The University of Nebraska - Lincoln). ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, , 196. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1476437507?accountid=35812. (1476437507).
Keshane, N. O. (1999, October). The Fundamental Values of Academic Integrity. The Center for Academic Integrity, (), 1-12.
Kimberly Holbrook
GEN 200
November 17, 2014
Nichol Garrison
Continuing Academic Success
Academic Success may not continue after you earn your degree, but what skills you learn will lead you to success in your career and at home. By utilizing your writing skills, your personal learning style, resources, and setting goals, you will succeed at any task you take on. Goal Setting for Academic Success
Setting goals for yourself during your academic career is an important step in success. By setting goals for time management, writing papers, and reading, you will develop good habits for learning. “Researchers have identified goal setting and self-regulated learning as crucial …show more content…
factors that affect academic achievement” (2007).
There are long term goals and short term goals.
Long term goals are what you want to achieve at the end of the process. Short term goals are easily reachable goals to get you to that long term goal. For instance my long term goal is to get a job in medical office management. To achieve my long term goal I have set a few short term goals. First I have to find a job in the health care industry. Then my next goal is to finish my degree in Health Care Management.
By setting goals students can learn more because it helps them focus on the goals they have set for themselves. Oxana D. Clark says “Goal setting improves student performance and enhances achievement by allocating attention, activating effort, increasing persistence and motivation which in turn leads to the development of self- regulation of skills”(2013).
The University of Phoenix has developed the five goals for learning also. They are Professional Competence and Values, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Communication, Information Utilization, and Collaboration (November, 2014). These goals can help you achieve not only academic success but also success in your professional life. Finding Your Personal Learning …show more content…
Style
Finding your personal learning style is a key to academic success. By learning how you learn, and finding ways to enhance your learning style, you will be able to increase the amount of information you are taking in.
There are several learning styles. These styles are Visual, Auditory, Moving, and Doing. A visual learner will learn by watching. An Auditory learner will learn by listening to the information. A person, who learns by moving, learns by just that moving around while they process information. And lastly the person learns by being hands on.
I have assessed my personal learning style, and found that I am a Visual learner.
I also learn by being hands on. By evaluating the way I learn I have been able to increase my input of information, thus becoming a better student. After my academic career I can apply my personal learning style to my professional career by being able to learn my job faster and become more proficient in my job. The Writing Process and Utilizing Resources
Being able to write papers that are clear and informative in your academic career will lead to success outside of school. Writing is another form of communication. You need to be able to communicate information to others whether you are in a classroom or boardroom.
You want to be able to avoid information overload by “incorporating the information in compact documents” (Julie & Lehr, Dece). Your employers and peers will appreciate it. By doing so will also make you a valuable employee.
When you gather information to communicate to others, you want to utilize all the available resources there are at your disposal. How ever when doing so you want to make sure the information comes from credible and reliable sources. Academic
Integrity
“Academic Integrity is a commitment even in the face of diversity to five fundamental values, trust, honesty, fairness, respect, and responsibility.(Keshane,1999)” From these five values come the principle behaviors that allow academic communities, to take ideas and put them into action.
When you incorporate academic integrity into your academic career you are setting up your core values. These values will follow you into your professional career and your social life. It is your responsibility as a student to be honest and trustworthy, and to respect others and there work. When a student is dishonest he/she is setting themselves up for failure in not only their academic career but also in life outside of school. Conclusion
Academic Success can continue on long after you are finished with school. Those who achieve Academic Success will be able to apply their learning skills to their professional career. They will also be able to communicate in writing, whether it is an email, or project presentation. This communication will be clear, concise and professional. They will be able to use all available reliable resources. And they will be an honest and trust worthy citizen and employee.
References
Julie, M., & Lehr, D. (December, 2007). Writing tips to Avoid Career Disaster. Cost Engineering, 49(12), 18-19. (November 2014). University Learning Goals [Video podcast]. Retrieved from http://newclassroom3.phoenix.edu/Classroom/#/contextid/OSIRIS:47763556/context/co/view/ActivityDetails/fc6428a1-2225-4c30-9675-eb97a0538fle/expanded/false
Clarke, O. D. (2013). LinguaFolio goal setting intervention and academic achievement: Increasing student capacity for self-regulated learning. (Order No. 3604640, The University of Nebraska - Lincoln). ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, , 196. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1476437507?accountid=35812. (1476437507).
Keshane, N. O. (1999, October). The Fundamental Values of Academic Integrity. The Center for Academic Integrity, (), 1-12.