Academic Success Research Paper

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Academic Success Academic Success To be successful as a student, you will need to set academic goals, know and understand your learning style, and have academic integrity. Setting goals is easier said than done for a lot of people. Many times, we envision what we would like to happen in the future, but forget about applying steps to our everyday life to achieve them. Other times, you may start off strong but get distracted along the way and lose focus of the end goal. . There are two types of goals to keep in mind, they are short term, and long term. Your short term goals are something that you should be reminded about on a daily or weekly basis. Things that you would like to see results to sooner belong on this list. Other larger…show more content…
Very often, you may find your mind drifting as you read something that is required for a class. You must let all mental pictures go when sitting down to read and retain information. Muscle reading is a step by step process in reading that can help you be more focused and able to get more information out of what you are reading. The first step is Previewing what you are about to read. This can be skimming through the book for key words, or looking at the table of contents. This gives you an idea of some important topics to concentrate on. Secondly, mentally outline the reading. This is, discovering main topics, and finding the supporting facts for them. The next step is while you read, focus on what is written. Set some time aside to be in your ideal environment to read without distractions. Look for questions, and flag the answers. After doing the previous steps, muscle reading calls for a few steps afterwards. The first is recite what you have read, and review it many times to retain the information. A review of the information you read within 24 hours will allow your brain to move the information to your long-term memory. This allows you to retrieve the information easier at a later date. (Ellis 2012) It is important to have a different style of reading for studying than you do for leisure. The goal of muscle reading is to understand what is being said, develop…show more content…
Being honest in every aspect of what you do, working hard and creating your own work are crucial. Cheating and plagiarism are wrong for many reasons, and go against all that is academic integrity. According to (Boehm, Justice &Weeks 2009) “Academic dishonesty costs institutions administrative time, loss of integrity within the school, and student lack of respect for ethics and values.” (pg. 45) If you have poor academic integrity you aren’t learning or getting as much out of your education as you could be. It not only effects you, but everyone else as well. When you plagiarize, you are stealing ideas from someone else and claiming them as your own. Not only is this dishonest, but you aren’t doing the work yourself and learning anything. This effects the person that you are stealing from and taking away the credit that they deserve for original work. As (Aurich 2012) states “Academic cheating is a real threat to the sanctity, integrity, and value of higher education,” (pg. 6) having academic integrity is very important as a student. Being honest about your work is a reflection of who you are as a person, and the morals and values that you stand for. Being dishonest in any aspect of your life leaves the opportunity open to be punished and losing everything that you had goals planned for. It is
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