Academic and Research Skills: Assessment, Note Taking, and Research Plan

Academic and Research Skills
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Assessment of self academic strengths and weaknesses.............................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Current notes noted in the classrooms from lectures of professors............................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
Plan for research..........................................................................................................................6
TASK 5............................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION.............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13
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INTRODUCTION
Academic and research skills are two fundamental needs and potential that students and
professional must possess to excel in their working areas, performance and profession. Persons
who have great academic and research skills help in their personality development and growth in
careers. So it is identified that it plays a vital role in growth of people who are working to
become successful in their professional lives (Lander, Seeho and Foster, 2019). Hence, the
current report would put reflection on abilities by starting with researching an assessment on
strength and weakness and development of SMART objectives for making improvements in self.
With this research skills and note taking are also assessed and evaluated while developing
research plan. In the end a plan of personal development is made to have right tasks so that one
could achieve predefined goals and make development.
TASK 1
Assessment of self academic strengths and weaknesses
Business management is an expertise area in which I have been getting my development
and professional learning. Business management is an area which is defined as making pathway
for careers in individuals, it makes an individual to move towards and learn activities related to
administration and develop skills for better understanding of aims and objectives of a business
for its success (Torres and Jansen, 2016).
Business management is my expertise area which helped me to develop and specialise
skills that are necessary to remain competitive and one step ahead from others. These skills
increase knowledge and growth of an individual to move forward of fulfilling goals and
objectives. These are development which make person strong academically, personally and
understanding multiple languages. For better understanding a proper analysis is done by
evaluating strengths and weaknesses, which are mentioned below:
Strengths:
 The first one is personal skill which helped me to become strong and supported
my study and professional development by making communication stronger and
effective. I have become stronger in my communication which made me more
interactive and assisted in gathering information which are necessary in teams and
groups.
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 The second strength is I got command over languages which helped me to analyse
and develop different practices of learning. As a learner it enabled me to
understand language of other people an their analytical skills.
 The third strength is it increased my motivational skills with the help of strong
learning and self development. I have become motivated person and encouraged
myself towards more and more learning and knowledge in a very effective
manner. It also improved my learning skills according to my needs and
preferences which also helped to improve and develop my efforts.
Weaknesses:
 I am a learner and pursuing a degree of profession in management, the biggest
disadvantage and barrier is that I do not understand the various concepts like
decision making and skill related diagnosis. By this expert course I am aiming
towards better understanding of these skills and focusing on development of my
capabilities related to decision making. So that I would be able to get better
understanding and power of judging.
 The second weakness is related to the area of skills related to note taking. I need
to develop my capabilities of thinking critically and improving skills which make
me move towards progress.
 The third weakness that I have is lack of leadership skills with my professional
course I want to develop and improve my quality of leadership. By improving this
quality it would help me to organize and direct things towards the achievement of
objectives. As I lack in this quality it shows that I am weak in guiding things to
other individuals or people (Alghamdi and Deraney, 2018).
Placing aims and objectives for long term and short term
SMART Objectives
SMART is an abbreviation which are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and
time oriented. Generally they are used for guiding development of measurable objectives. These
are used by employers and employees to form, develop, track and achieve both short term and
long term goals and aims. These SMART objectives are formed and constructed to achieve pre
determined goals that are short term and long term. It is an acronym which is used in various
situation, circumstances and sectors (Thompson and et. al, 2018).
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