You have to remember, Oblivion isn't like most (any) games since Morrowind. You don't get experience points for felling your enemy, you get experience, in a skill, that you used to fell said enemy.
For mages and magic types, getting more power is fairly easy to be honest. Grab a small, low level, low cost spell of whatever school and cast it on anything within sight. Wait for your magic to regenerate, rinse, repeat. For destruction, just try and grab a spell that causes fatigue damage to you, raise whatever the other component's school is so that destruction becomes its dominant school, then raise destruction. Of course that can have the added effect of knocking you out every few minutes. Once you get into the Arcane Academy it becomes even easier, just craft a spell per school (one fatigue damage for destruction aimed at you) and then spam away. You'll have maxed attributes without a single fight...and then you'll die because your armor sucks unless you're a summoner or an alteration master.
For any other class, it's all up to you. To be completely honest, I went through Oblivion just fine on normal difficulty as a warrior. Grabbed a decent sword, decent armor, then ransacked half the alied ruins. If you're a melee class then the only reason you could die is if you chose light armor over heavy armor...never go full melee without heavy armor unless you're an assassin or assassin type.
For Archers and other ranged types, I guess the easiest possible way to boost your stats would be to grab a whole bunch of the lowest level of arrows you can, find a nice, secluded, large boulder. Jump on top of it, and shoot any wild animal you can see in the face. That includes deers, and possibly legion soldiers if you're drunk (or your character is drunk and you're a really hardcore roleplayer).
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