Academic Skills and PDP: Written Report Plan and Evaluation of Sources

BMP3001
Academic Skills and PDP
Assessment 1
Written Report Plan and Evaluation of
Sources
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Table of Contents
Task One:.....................................................................................................................2
Definition of the concept of personal and professional development..................2
Description and discussion of the value of short term goals identifying at least 3
personal examples...............................................................................................3
Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals identifying at least 3
personal examples...............................................................................................3
Description and discussion of the value of long term goals identifying at least 3
personal examples...............................................................................................3
Description and discussion of the value of a Personal Development Plan and
construction of an example using my goals.........................................................4
Task Two:.....................................................................................................................5
Description and discussion of how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’
affect the use of a source.....................................................................................5
Task Three:...................................................................................................................5
Evaluation of eight sources that has been used by me within the project...........5
References:...................................................................................................................9
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Task One:
Definition of the concept of personal and professional development
The main aim of personal and professional development is to help an
individual to achieve their life goals. Personal skills are those skills which is essential
to create a good reputation in society and to develop ability by an individual to
represent them self better to others and professional skills are those skills which are
required to perform the desired job (Robert, Piemonte and Truten, 2018).
Professional skills are helpful to learn those important skills which are required to get
a job and to get promotions by managing work performance within an organization.
Both the skills are helpful to work upon making good life career. Personal
development plan is a criterion which is made to improve the development skills
within an individual and it also help to analyze that how a goal can be achieved. It is
useful to identify that what are the weak skills of a person and what all actions are
required to improve them and convert them into strong skills from weak skills. A
person of having good personality always attracts their surroundings to them by
improving their reputation and attracts others toward their modern skills and talents
and toward their updates knowledge.
Description and discussion of the value of short term goals identifying at
least 3 personal examples
Short term goals are those goals which are going to achieve within 1 year.
These goals are made to achieve as soon as possible because of its urgency. These
goals are consider as urgent goals which must be fulfilled as soon as possible and in
case more time is spend to achieve these goals then it will affect to further activities
of life (Bruni-Bossio and Delbaere, 2021). Short term goals help to perform those
tasks which will help in future to achieve long term goals.
Examples:-
 To improve time management skill.
 To become health conscious and eat healthy food daily.
 To develop debate skills.
Description and discussion of the value of medium term goals identifying
at least 3 personal examples
Medium term goals are those goals which are supposed to achieve within 3-5
years. These goals are the base to decide about career that in which field an
individual is planning to make their lifetime career. These goals help to improve
those mistakes which are done by an individual to make their career good. These
goals also helps to identify the obstacles in life career path so that an individual will
solve the issues as soon as possible and focus on long term goals after reaching
midterm goals (Ogunyemi, Sugiyama and Ferrari, 2020).
Examples of medium term goals are:-
 To graduate from college with good marks and become best student of
college by getting batch of best disciplined student of the college.
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