Academic Skills and PDP

ACADEMIC SKILLS AND
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
TASK-1.......................................................................................................................................................3
Examining the concepts of personal and professional development......................................................3
Discussing the value of short term goals.................................................................................................3
Medium term goals.................................................................................................................................3
Long term goals.......................................................................................................................................4
Analyzing the value of personal development plan.................................................................................4
TASK-2.......................................................................................................................................................5
Examining how Author, purpose, reliability and relevance affect the use of sources.............................5
TASK-3.......................................................................................................................................................5
Analyzing the eight sources.....................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The present report is based on the topic Academic skills and PDP. The assignment will discuss
about the concept of personal development planning along with this it will describe about the
Author, reliability, purpose that affect the use of source. Lastly it will also evaluate the eight
sources.
TASK-1
Examining the concepts of personal and professional development
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: It is the term used for those qualities that helps the individuals
to develop their person’s capabilities along with this it will also enhance the quality for their
throughout life (Rimmer, A., 2018). On the other it can be also said that it is the process which
also help them to assess life goals which is also used for meeting goals.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: It is the development which is used for improving the
skills that are used at the time of meeting the organization objectives (Preston and Gasser, 2018).
Mainly this is also used for consultation, technical and mentoring assistance.
Discussing the value of short term goals
Short term goals are the type of goal which an individual want to achieve in the less
period of time to attain the goal (Chow and et.al., 2018). It can be also said that the individual
want to accomplish goals and objectives soon by thus short term goals. It can be also said that by
this they will not only get motivated but it will also result in increasing the productivity that is by
focusing long term (Servitri, M. O. and Trisnawaty, W., 2018). The three examples of short term
goals are:
 Improving the learning skills within 4 days
 Improve the communication skills in 1 week
 Read newspaper in 1 day