Academic Skills and PDP: Short, Medium and Long Term Goals

ACADEMIC SKILLS
AND PDP
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development....................................................................3
Short term goals with three different examples..........................................................................3
Medium term goals with three different examples.....................................................................3
Long term goals with three different examples...........................................................................4
Value of a personal development plan with an example.............................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Effect of Author, purpose, reliability and the relevance on the utilization of few sources.........5
TASK THREE.................................................................................................................................5
Evaluating the 8 sources which are utilized in the report...........................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
The concept of academic skills refers to the presence of certain skills within an individual
which they can learn at their learning phase and develops those in within self. Personal
development plan denotes to a structured form within which an individual mentions about the
skills that are needed to be developed or improved highlighting the current and future
expectations that are to be achieved in a particular period of time. The present report talks about
the short, medium and long term goals which a person achieves with the help of developing a
personal development plan.
MAIN BODY
Concept of personal and professional development
The notion of personal development denotes to the skills that a person either develops or
enhances in order to have attractive personality in his or her personal life. Whereas, the notion
pertaining to professional development comprises of such skills that an employee carries in his
official or personal life used at workplace. An individual develops these skills in order to attain
their various objectives with ease and high level of efficiency. These goals needs to be set for a
particular time period within which they are targetted to be attained.
Short term goals with three different examples
The short term objectives are denoted to a bridge that minimizes the distance between
long term objectives. These are required to be achieved within a very short span of time say
within a period of one year.
Examples:
 To look for a good coach to have the training of badminton
 To jot down one pager easy on different topic with daily basis.
 To schedule early morning wake up for exercises.
Medium term goals with three different examples
The notion for medium term goals could be stated as such targets which are set with an
objective of serving the motive of long term targets. Such form of targets are required to be
attained within a period of less than 3 years.
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