Academic Skills and Personal Development

This document discusses the importance of academic skills and personal development. It covers the concept of personal and professional development, the value of short term, medium term, and long term goals, and the significance of personal development plans. It also explores how the purposes, authors, relevance, and reliability of sources affect their use. Additionally, it provides an evaluation of the sources used in a report plan.

ACADEMIC SKILL AND
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal & professional development.......................................................................3
Value of short term goals at lest 3 personal aims........................................................................3
Value of medium term aims........................................................................................................3
Long term aims value..................................................................................................................4
Value of personal development plan...........................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Describes how Purposes, Author, Relevance and Reliability affect the use of a source.............4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
Write an evaluation of the sources you have used in your report plan........................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are very important for learner, it is made up of core skills such as
presentations, academic writing and referencing which underpin more difficult skill such as
reflective practice & critical thinking as well. The current study is based on four different tasks,
first will explain personal and professional development concept, value of short term aims and
also discuss value of medium term aims. It will describe value of long term aims and value of
personal development plan. Furthermore, this assignment will justify purpose, reliability, author
and relevance affect on use of sources. The last task will clarify evaluation of eight sources will
utilized in report plan.
TASK 1
Concept of personal & professional development
Professional development refers to learning process that helps to maintain or earn
professional credentials such as academic level of formal coursework. It helps applicants
continue to not only be competent in their profession, but also stand out in it (Kennedy, 2016).
While personal development is lifelong procedure, it is the best way for individual to
assess their abilities and qualities, consider their smart goals in life and set aims in order to
increase and realize their potential.
Value of short term goals at lest 3 personal aims
Short term aims are valuable for everyone, it increases procrastination, they lay down a
defined and clear path to success either professional or personal (Godward, Dale and Smith,
2019). It helps person to focus on specific thing at a time which they need to achieve. There are 3
examples of personal aims-
 The first aim is to build daily routine or schedule.
 Second personal aim is to enhance communication practices.
 Third personal goal is to build confidence level
Value of medium term aims
Medium term personal goals are also important and value for individual as it offers the
best of worlds as long enough to make important progress while short term that person is not a
completely different from other by time they achieve aim.
 The first medium personal aims of applicant is to develop interpersonal skills.

 Second aims is to obtain high degree of knowledge related to personal, academic or
professional.
 To develop IT skills
Long term aims value
Long term aims are something person wants to do in the future, they are essential for
successful and effective career. It is all about people want to accomplish in further and get all
benefits at that time which is quite beneficial for professional and personal career.
 To gain experience in leadership role.
 To improve work performance.
 To obtain the best employment opportunities.
Value of personal development plan
It is procedure of establishing objectives and aims person needs to achieve in effective
manner. It is long termed process, constantly reviewed those goals to facilitate ongoing
employability through developing working abilities and needed knowledge. The personal
development plan is consist with all degree of aims discussed above like short, medium and long.
It has several key elements such as self discovery, smart aims, periodic evaluations and
continuous development plan evaluation.
TASK 2
Describes how Purposes, Author, Relevance and Reliability affect the use of a source.
Author - Who is the author of you source is the basis of your research. The author must be
relevant to the field of your research; also the author must not be on that position by any kind of
fake degree.
Purpose - The first step before evaluation of your source is to evaluate the purpose of the result
(Pickard, L and et.al., 2017). For example, if you started the research of an academic purpose,
then there is a requirement of Reliability and relevance.
Reliability - For verifying the reliability of a source can be determined by two ways, the first one
is recency and the second one is verifiability. This is necessary because the authenticity and
reliability of the source change with time.
Relevance - For this the target source or audience must be relevant for your research. The
research you are doing must be reliable so as to make your research trustful.

TASK 3
Write an evaluation of the sources you have used in your report plan
Basis References
Author Reference1 - Anjum, S
Reference 2 - Brieger, S.A. and De Clercq, D
Reference 3 - Calkins, L., Ehrenworth, M. and
Akhmedjanova, D.
Reference 4 - Godward, J., Dale, H. and Smith,
C.
Reference 5 - Lejeune, C., Mercuri, D.,
Beausaert, S. and Raemdonck, I.
Reference 6 - Pickard, L.
Reference 7 - Schroecker, Y. and Isbell, C.
Reference 8 - Wang, P. and Spinney, J.
Purpose Reference1 - Study of evaluation of the impact
of internship programmes and professional
skills development.
Reference 2 - To provide a better
understanding of interplay of individual level
resources and culture.
Reference 3 - To describe the importance of
professional development.
Reference 4 - The purpose is to describe and
develop counselor skills.
Reference 5 - The purpose of this is to develop
and train personnel.
Reference 6 - The purpose is to determine the
impact of increase in personal development by
outdoor orientation programme.
Reference 7 - The purpose served is about
imitation learning and goal conditioned

reinforcement.
Reference 8 - The purpose is about study of
portfolio management.
Reliability Reference 1 - The scale measurement analysis
is done to check the reliability of data.
Reference 2 - To ensure reliability social
values and beliefs of individual are taken in
consideration.
Reference 3 - The reliability of data is well
designed as the data is extracted by various
scripts.
Reference 4 - The data is taken from various
case studies and documents.
Reference 5 - The source of this data is reliable
taken from book of personal development
plans.
Reference 6 - The data is taken form a
investigation based on semi structured
interviews.
Reference 7 - The data is taken from imitation
learning research, thus reliable.
Reference 8 - The data is taken from volume
44 of general portfolio management.
Relevance Reference1 - The data is relevant to impact on
personal growth and skills.
Reference 2 - The data is relevant to individual
thinking and believe.
Reference 3 - The data is relevant to value of
professional development.
Reference 4 - Relevance of the data is that it is
based on grooming counselor skills.

Reference 5 - Relevance of this data is that this
is about personal development of personnel.
Reference 6 - The data is relevant to outdoor
orientation programme.
Reference 7 - The data is relevant to imitation
learning and programmes.
Reference 8 - The data is relevant to learning
of portfolio management.

CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the study that academic skills are crucial from a learner
perspective. It involves core skills such as academic writing, referencing and presentation. It has
been summarized that personal development is important for an individual as it helpful for
assessing the qualities and abilities. It is helpful for improving the core competency skills which
later on helpful for the career orientation of an individual. It has been determined that personal
development plan is process of identifying individual goals and objectives and it provide a
procedure through which the person can achieve them. Personal aims are important for overall
growth perspective of an individual.

REFERENCES
Book and Journals
Anjum, S., 2020. Impact of internship programs on professional and personal development of
business students: a case study from Pakistan. Future Business Journal. 6(1). pp.1-13.
Brieger, S.A. and De Clercq, D., 2019. Entrepreneurs’ individual-level resources and social
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Calkins, L., Ehrenworth, M. and Akhmedjanova, D., 2019. Creating Formative Assessment
Systems in the Teaching of Writing, and Harnessing Them as Professional Development.
In Handbook of Formative Assessment in the Disciplines (pp. 173-206). Routledge.
Godward, J., Dale, H. and Smith, C., 2019. Personal Development Groups for Trainee
Counsellors: An Essential Companion. Routledge.
Lejeune, C., Mercuri, D., Beausaert, S. and Raemdonck, I., 2016. Personal development plans
supporting employee learning and perceived performance: the moderating role of self-
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Pickard, L and et.al., 2017, May. Personal development, relience theory and transition to
university for 1st Year students. In Third International Conference on Higher Education
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Schroecker, Y. and Isbell, C., 2020. Universal Value Density Estimation for Imitation Learning
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Wang, P. and Spinney, J., 2017. Strategic Asset Allocation: Combining Science and Judgment to
Balance Short-Term and Long-Term Goals. The Journal of Portfolio Management. 44(1).
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