Task 1 (750 words)

The timetable of study is shown below:

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
6:00 am Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up Wake up sleep sleep
7:00 am Morning Walk Morning Walk Morning Walk Morning Walk Morning Walk sleep sleep
8:00 am Break fast Break fast Break fast Break fast Break fast Wake up Wake up
9:00 am Job work Job work Job work Job work Job work Breakfast Breakfast
10:00 am Job work Job work Job work Job work Job work Do some work Friends party
in home
11:00 am Job work Job work Job work Job work Job work Go to Friends party
swimming
with friend
12:00 pm Job work Job work Job work Job work Job work swimming Friends party
1:00 pm Taking Rest Taking Rest Class class class Lunch with Friends party
friends
2:00 pm Lunch with Lunch with Class Chill time with Chill time with rest Cleaning
family family friends friends
3:00 pm Sleep for 1 Sleep for 1 Class Class class study Lunch
hour hour
4:00 pm Searching Searching Rest Rest Rest Review Rest
data for data for assessment
research research task
5:00 pm Searching Searching Gym Gym Gym Review Go outside
data for data for assessment with family
research research task
6:00 pm Walk Walk Walk outdoors Walk outdoors Walk Go for Go outside
outdoors outdoors outdoors shopping with family
7:00 pm study Dinner with Research for Research for Writing Go for Watch news
friends assessment assessment assessment shopping
task
8:00 pm Dinner Study Memorizing Memorizing Dinner dinner Dinner
concepts concepts
9:00 pm Spend time Watching dinner dinner Writing Watching Review
on mobile movie assessment movie assessment
task task
10:00 pm Revising what Watching Study Study Writing Watching Review
have done movie assessment movie assessment
task task
11:00 pm Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep Sleep

Time management means managing the hours of the day. It’s about planning and organizing how much
time you will spend carrying out certain activities, whether it’s professional or personal.

Effective time management enables you to plan and perform daily tasks within set deadlines. In this
way, activities don’t accumulate and can be developed with greater dedication.

There are countless time management tools and techniques that help you understand your work routine
and develop methodologies that you can use to optimize every minute of the day. Fortunately, it’s now
possible to have technology as an ally in the time management pro

1. Use A Time Planner And Create A Master List

The first time management tool that student need is a time planner that contains everything they need
to plan and organize in life. The best time planners, whether loose leaf binders or electronic versions,
enable to plan for the year, the month, the week, and for each day.
A good time planner will contain a master list where student can capture every task, goal, or required
action as it comes up. This master list then becomes the core of time-planning system. From this master
list, student allocate individual tasks to various months, weeks, and days.

2. Work From A List

Every effective executive works from a daily master list. It is the most powerful tool ever discovered for
maximum productivity and its one of the best ways to help achieve your SMART goals. When student
create their daily list, begin by writing down every single task that they intend to complete over the
course of the day.

The rule is that student will increase their efficiency by 25% on the very first day that start using a list.

This means that student will have two extra hours of productive time in an eight hour day from the
simple act of making a list of everything they have to do before start work.

3. Organize By Priority

Once student have a master list for day’s activities, the next step is for them to organize this list in order
of priority. Once master list is organized, it becomes a map to guide student from morning to evening in
the most effective and efficient way. This guide tells student what they have to do and what is more or
less important. The 80/20 Rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, says that 80% of your results will
come from 20% of your efforts. Therefore, the key to maximizing efficiency is prioritizing the tasks that
contribute to the majority of students gains.

4. Time Management Tools And Systems

The variety of personal digital assistants (PDAs) and computer-based time planner systems available
today is absolutely wonderful. there are digital time management systems that Students can tap into or
load onto personal computer to help organize every part of your life.

5. Organize Time

The ability to organize time is a priceless time management skill. There is a simple method of organizing
Students time and schedule for up to two years in advance. It is called the “45-file system.” This is a
tickler file that lets you plan and organize your activities and callbacks for the next twenty-four months.

Task 2
Sources for Learning (300 words)
Learning Resources Materials are materials that are used for teaching a course.

Assignment: Activities or lesson plans designed to enable students to learn skills and knowledge.

Case Study: A narrative resource describing a complex interaction of real life factors to help illustrate
the impact and/or interactions of concepts and factors in depth.
ePortfolio: A collection of electronic materials assembled and managed by a user. These may include
text, electronic files, images, multimedia, blog entries, and links. E-portfolios are both demonstrations of
the user’s abilities and platforms for self-expression, and, if they are online, they can be maintained
dynamically over time. An e-portfolio can be seen as a type of learning record that provides actual
evidence of achievement.

Illustration/Graphic: Visual concepts, models, and/or processes (that are not photographic images) that
visually present concepts, models, and/or processes that enable students to learn skills or knowledge.
These can be diagrams, illustrations, graphics or infographics in any file format including Photoshop,
Illustrator and other similar file types.

Open Journal – Article: A journal or article in a journal that is free of cost from the end user and has a
Creative Commons, public domain, or other acceptable use license agreement.

Open Textbook: An online textbook offered by its author(s) with Creative Commons, public domain, or
other acceptable use license agreement allowing use of the ebook at no additional cost.

Photographic Image – Instructional: Photos or images of real people, places or things that visually
presents concepts, processes and/or phenomena that enable students to learn skills or knowledge.
These can be photographs, images, or stock photography.

Social Networking Tool: Websites and apps that allows users to communicate with others connected in
a network of self-identified user groups for the purpose of sharing information, calls for actions, and
reactions.

Video – Instructional: A recording of moving visual images that show real people, places and things that
enable students to learn skills or knowledge

Academic skills developed over the course of this module. (400 words)
This is a module that explores a number of quality tools that will help us to look at our core skills in the
business field and identify areas where we could improve.

At the beginning of this module, I used to leave my life as normal with few skills that I have learned from
my parents, for example the “Communication skills” and “Team working skills”, but even it was not
enough to communicate or to work with whomever. Communication skills and team working skills are
the closest skills; team working can not occur if there is no communication. Since our childhood, our
parents push us to get in touch with people of our ages. At beginning, it is never easy seeing the quarrels
that happen with our friends in the youngest ages while playing together, but these skills get developed
in growing older. I also had an experience of team working during few years when I used to play football
in a club, and as we know this sport is not played individually, but in a team, and I had learned a lot
during this experience.

It is sure that we learn a lot from our parents and the activities in our childhood, but studying
complements the path our parents put us on to build our future in order to get the objective of having a
good life later on.

I have also learned during my past years some important skills that our module covers, such as
“Numeracy skills” and “Information Skills”. However, they were not as important as we studied during
this semester. Numeracy skills are taught in increasing levels since the youngest ages, starting from the
primary school until we get our degree at the university, but before, it was just numbers and relations
that I learned and that don’t stand for anything real. On what concerns the information skills, I have
learned a few about it during the high school and I increased my level on it during the foundation year I
have done last year at the university.

Other skills that are closer to the communication skills which are the effective learning skills, and they
are also close to the personal and career development skills as well. The effective learning skills are the
ones I learned trough some experiences, but for what concerns the personal and career development
skills I did know nothing about them until I discovered them during this module.

Task 3 (750 words)

Source 1
Plagiarism is referred to as literary theft and academic dishonesty, which usually occurs when someone
copies the work, ideas and opinions of another author and expresses them as though they are his own
without giving credit to the originator. It is very common among higher learning academicians especially
when doing write ups for their projects, term papers or thesis.

Plagiarism is a very serious offence and it can attract penalties since copyright takes authors words as his
own property and the author has rights to sue in the court of law in case of plagiarism. Plagiarizing not
only involves written materials but also piracy in music and other properties.

On the other hand academic integrity refer to a situation whereby students in higher learning institution
hold highly on the moral values academics and do their work honestly without cheating. It encourages
acts of independent learning and critical thinking.

To maintain academic integrity, academicians should avoid acts of dishonesty, cheating, plagiarism
among others. Institutions of higher learning should encourage academic integrity since it really helps
students to develop academically and it makes it easy for them to face all kinds of challenges in their
area of study.

Understanding and using referencing systems is an important part of your academic reading and writing.
Referencing can be defined as acknowledging the author or source of information in a text. Referencing
is a valuable tool for any academic writer because: • understanding referencing can help student to find
additional information for research • it gives credibility to interpretations because student can
demonstrate how they fit into the field of knowledge about which you are writing • it enables students
to acknowledge sources and avoid charges of plagiarism

Source 2

Academic integrity, student cheating and plagiarism are concerns of the utmost importance to
university faculty, administrators, writing center and tutoring staff, librarians and academic
advisors. The short, straightforward definitions of academic integrity and plagarism are meant to
assist persons interested inunderstanding more about these issues.
Academic Integrity:

Most sources define academic integrity (or academic honesty) as the foundation for academic
life. It is the manner in which you behave in an academic environment when you do research,
writing a paper or creating a project. The fundamental five values in this academic process are
honesty, trust, respect, fairness and responsibility. Academic integrity is the commitment to live
by these values. Plagiarism is an aspect of academic integrity in that using another's ideas, words,
theories, illustrations or graphics, opinions or facts without giving credit is dishonest.

To use, steal or represent the ideas, words or products of another as your own ideas, words or
products. Use of someone else's ideas, words or products without giving credit to the author or
originator is considered plagiarism.

When using or quoting word for word the words of another person it must be acknowledged.
Summarizing or paraphrasing the words or ideas of another without giving that person credit is
also plagiarism.

Source 3
Academic integrity is the central principle on which the academic community depends. If a researcher
falsifies data to support an hypothesis, or if a scholar steals the clever ideas of another and claims them
as his or her own, the climate of trust that fosters the growth of knowledge and the creation of new
ideas is destroyed. For students, copying others' work damages the intellectual integrity of their
academic experience; it prevents intellectual engagement with a discipline and inhibits learning. It's
unfair because it gives cheaters an advantage over honest students. Moreover, since the value of a
university degree is based on the public's trust that graduates of that institution have gained a certain
level of knowledge and ability, fraudulent shortcuts devalue the degree. In an attempt to prevent
academic fraud, the university punishes those caught, and, depending on the crime, may even expel
them from the university.

Plagiarism is "The appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving
appropriate credit." Plagiarism is just one form of academic misconduct; plagiarism and cheating are
perhaps the most commonly practiced.

The most prevalent form of plagiarism occurs when a writer neglects to credit the author textual sources
in a term paper or writing assignment. Plagiarism applies to written or electronic text found in books,
journals, magazines, newspapers, web sites, etc. However, it also pertains to visual documents such as
photographs, charts, graphs, drawings, statistics and material taken from lectures, interviews or
television programs. In other words, it covers all created sources.
Less experienced writers may commit plagiarism as a result of an incomplete or poor knowledge of
citation and documentation standards or because they are incorporating standards from one field or
culture inappropriately into another. Inexperienced writers may also be unsure of the difference
between direct quotation, paraphrasing, and summary. Poor notetaking habits may also lead to
plagiarism.

Task 4
cademic integrity means honesty and responsibility in scholarship. Students and faculty alike must obey
rules of honest scholarship, which means that all academic work should result from an individual’s own
efforts. Intellectual contributions from others must be consistently and responsibly acknowledged.
Academic work completed in any other way is fraudulent” ( ).

Academic dishonesty occurs usually in many forms: cheating, recycling, fabrication, unauthorized
collaboration and plagiarism. These may be accomplished by submitting someone’s work acting as own
work, or using unauthorized sources that not allow in exams or assignments. It is important that
students should become familiar with what is academic dishonesty and how to avoid it.

Cheating is one of the high level academic dishonesty forms. These actions are considered cheating:
using unauthorized sources on tests, copying from other students’ assignments or allowing your work to
be copy, stealing assignments, test, or projects before tests, or using electronic device when taking tests.
Fabrication is just making things up.

Maintaining academic integrity is equally a challenge in both traditional and online education. Student
cheating is, unfortunately, a given at all colleges and universities. While it is impossible to eradicate
student cheating completely, it can be minimized if both the faculty and administration work together.
At the beginning of each course, it is incumbent upon the faculty to make students aware (verbally and
in the course syllabi) that cheating in general and plagiarism in particular will not be tolerated. As a
deterrent, it might be worthwhile to let the students know that the Internet can (and will) be used as a
tool to combat plagiarism by doing searches in reverse. For its part, the administration must make the
school's position on plagiarism very clear through the catalog, student handbook, and during student
orientations. Plagiarism is unacceptable and severe consequences up to and including expulsion await
those students who wish to test the policy.

Finally, the administration needs to assure the faculty that they will not be put on trial or endure a
bureaucratic nightmare for simply maintaining ethical standards in their classroom. This means that the
administration must be willing to stand behind the faculty when the students seek to mitigate or
overturn their punishment. When the administration and faculty work together, it sends a clear and
unified message to all students that cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated in any class (traditional
or online).
Harvard Referencing

The Harvard (author-date) system is comprised of two elements: an in-text citation and a
bibliography at the end of the document. In the text of an assignment, ideas taken from other
people are indicated by placing the author's surname and the date of publication in brackets. The
bibliography at the end of the document then lists the references in alphabetical order by author's
surname.

Citing in text

A citation is an abbreviated indication of the source(s) you have used in text. Use the author(s)' or
editor(s)' family name and year of publication. When student are directly quoting exact text, or
paraphrasing a specific part of a text, then they should also give the relevant page number(s) in in-
text citation

Books Reference

Last name, first initial. (Year). Title. Edition (if not the first edition of the book). City of
publication: Publisher.

Articles

Citations for Print Journals

Last name, First initial. (Year). Article Title. Journal name, Volume (Issue), Page/s.

Citations for Journal Articles accessed on a website or database

In-text citations for an online journal article remain unchanged from the way you would cite a print
article. The citation in the reference list does have a few differences, however.

Last name, First initial. (Year). Article Title. Journal name, Volume (Issue), Page/s. Available from:
URL. [Accessed: date].

Citations for websites:

When citing a website, it is important to ascertain authorship of the website – if it's an article on
website which is not a newspaper/magazine site or online journal, there may be an individual
author; if not, the organisation or website name would be credited with authorship.

Author/Source if no specific author (Year). Title of web document/page. [online]. (Last updated: if
this information is available). Available at: URL [Accessed date: Day/Month/Year].