Making Learning Styles Personal

Completing the learning styles questionnaires/ tests has helped me discover my learning style and indeed offered suggestions with enhancing my learning. I do, however, understand that the learning styles merely act as a guideline and do not depict a fixed learning style.

The modalities and skills - VARK (Fleming and Mills, 1992; Fleming & Baume, 2006), Honey and Mumford model (Honey and Mumford, 1982) and Kolb model (Kolb, 1984) - can be used to an advantage, for example; when studying for exams and writing assignment. One common advantage with these modalities is, they encourage (a) Reflection, (b) Conceptualisation, and (c) ways of testing ideas...

1. VARK (An acronym for Visual, Aural, Read/Write and Kenisthetic) model

Academic skills, Research, Referencing, Academic writing styles and bibliographies

Learning academic writing skills has helped me establish an efficient way of writing, particularly with regards to college assignments and my personal link building and content marketing website (See here).

Academic writing is certainly important in higher educational studies as it ensures a message is conveyed succinctly.

This style of writing can be broken down into 3 cycle process which involves:

1. Planning
2. Thinking
3. Writing

The first stage - Planning - focuses on understanding the question at hand (with regards to assignments/ essays/ reports or proposals), then creating a list of tasks along with deadlines. The planning process helps with staying up-to-date and achieving targets, efficiently.