College Students: These Soft Skills Lead To Academic Success

 

Introduction

Soft skills are ways that help a person interact with the rest of the people. For example working with other people in a team is a soft skill. They help you to be flexible and be able to adapt to new environments or situations with ease. They are a big attribute to a student’s academic success and achievements.

According to Sloane (2014) there are three main soft skills for academic success. Time management is a big skill used for success. As a student, how you maintain and use your time is very important. Managing time helps in balancing school work, social life and sometimes even work. As a student sometimes you have so much to do and only this skill could help in organizing and scheduling.

Teamwork is a soft skill that enables you to work in different groups and this includes working with people you are not familiar with. This skill helps you to get out of your comfort zone and not only depend on yourself but also know how to depend on other people. Teamwork improves on your communication skills since you have to share your thoughts in the group.

 Organization skill is used in planning and recording. A student has to use this skill to plan, make records in order to have organized work. This skill helps a student to explore and manage their work with ease. Organization skill helps a student to follow the proper procedure.

In the Bryant & Stratton APA guide I used pages four and six. Original documentation is used and is important to a writer since the writer is able to find information from the original source. Accurate source documentation makes the writer find the original information. Citations and references should be made when a writer is using a source document to avoid taking someone’s work and making it their own. Referencing should be done to help a reader know exactly where a writer got the information from.

Conclusion

Time management, teamwork and organizational skills are the three main skills that lead to a student’s success. They guide a student through their projects and in group discussions. The three skills are useful, not only in school, in their social life and also in the outside world making one to step out of their comfort zones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

 Sloane, C. (2014).College students: These soft skills lead to academic success