Academic Skills

You will also find that Academic Skills overlap with other categories on this site such as Writing and Grammar and in particular thinking skills such as criticality.

Research and Reading
Arguably the most utilised academic skill is the skill of finding information. Finding webpages on a topic is not a difficult task, and even finding relevant web pages is becoming much easier as search engines continually improve their methods. However, good academic skills involve abilities to select the right type of words, to assess the suitability of resources, to know where to look other than the World Wide Web, etc.

A useful starting point as a guide to what you need to consider when looking for sources is the website Academic English.uk which includes the acronym CRAAP as a handy reminder of key tests for source suitability (currency, relevance, authority, accuracy, purpose).