It is easy to assume that a successful student is the one that achieves high scores and is popular not only with their peers but also lecturers and tutors. But, is it the only way to define 'success'. In this week's episode, I dive deep into four categories of 'success' and try to encourage you to explore non-academic skills that can greatly contribute to your success as a student and individual. I talk about being resilient and confident as they seem to be top skills that are required to thrive in today's uncertain world. I also talk about systems that can help you increase your levels of resilience and confidence. And of course, I have created a free guide that will help you coin your own definition of success according to the four categories explained in this episode.
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How can you hold yourself accountable?
Accountability breeds confidence. But how can you do it? How can you build your confidence? How can you trust yourself and be sure that you will accomplish your goals? In this week's episode, I talk about the importance of accountability and how it can help you with self organisation and time management. I also refer to the Priority Matrix as a tool that aids task prioritisation.
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How to become a boss of your own time
In this episode, I encourage you to reflect on your self-organisation and time management. Both skills are critical to becoming a successful student. With the amount of work mounting and the deadlines coming all at once, it is easy to feel overwhelmed and stressed. With the rocks, pebbles and sand analogy, I would like to help you for your priorities and focus on the tasks that matters most to you.
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Academic Reading and Writing Made Easy (Trailer)
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How to use Quizlet and Collocaid for learning academic vocabulary
One of the reasons why students don't do well in writing is a lack of academic vocabulary. While there are many wordlists with academic vocabulary available on the Internet, there are not too many proven methods or tools that would actually help with the acquisition of the new vocabulary set. In this week's episode, I introduce two applications that my students and I use for learning, revising and applying academic collocations. While Collocaid helps you with expanding your academic vocabulary range, Quizlet facilitates the process of testing and memorising new words and phrases.
Welcome to the Academic Reading and Writing Made Easy Podcast. I am more than happy that you pressed the play button and gave me a chance to share with you all the interesting interviews with other lecturers, experts in academic research and with my dear students, who are happy to share with you how academic reading and writing classes with me have helped them boost their confidence and succeed on their degrees.
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