Portfolio: Formal and Informal Email, SWOT Analysis, Group Work, TIC, Referencing, Cover Letter, Interview Skills, Data Interpretation, Academic Writing Style, Books, Power Point Presentation

This assessment includes 12 documents covering various skills such as formal and informal email writing, SWOT analysis, group work, TIC, referencing, cover letter, interview skills, data interpretation, academic writing style, books, and power point presentation. These documents help in developing skills for personal and professional life. The portfolio aims to improve learning and skills for better career prospects.

CW2: Portfolio

Table of Contents
SUMMARY.....................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................4
Informal Email...........................................................................................................................4
Formal Email.............................................................................................................................4
SWOT analysis...........................................................................................................................5
Group work................................................................................................................................5
Thinking into character (TIC)..................................................................................................5
Referencing.................................................................................................................................6
Cover Letter...............................................................................................................................6
Interview skills...........................................................................................................................7
Data interpretation....................................................................................................................7
Academic writing style..............................................................................................................7
Books...........................................................................................................................................8
Power Point Presentation..........................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

SUMMARY
This assessment includes the 12 documents such as formal or information email writing,
group work, SWOT analysis, thinking into Character (TIC), Interview skills, Cover letter,
academic writing, Power Point Presentation, Referencing, Data interpretation and Books
(Almatarneh and et.al., 2018). These documents help me to understand and learnt various skills
which is beneficial in personal and professional life. Referencing, I learn that how to attached
sources which further helps other to check the authenticity of the data used for their work.
Formal or information email writing make me able to express the work as per the requirement
which positively impact the higher authorities. I learned that how to write professional mails
which leaves greater impact on their career. Group work helps me that how to manage in the
team work or be a good team member. From data interpretation, I learn how to manage their
huge number of data and it will be managing in understanding way for making strategies with the
help of available findings. Books provide me waste information regarding any topics as well as
every aspect, it helps me to become knowledgeable. Interview skills, I learned that how to
present myself when I am going for an interview process. Cover letter include the detail
description of individual and it is the first impression which interviewer get for the candidate. It
helps me to impress my interviewer with impressive cover letter writing. Power point
presentation, I learn that how to present yourself in front of many people and share information
about the topics which you write for the presentation.
With the help of academic writing, I learn that how to analyse, think critical, understand
and focus on many aspect of topics. SWOT analysis helps me to evaluate my strength,
weakness, threats, opportunities. Further I have to work on that in order to improve my weak
skills and try to grab future opportunities. Thinking into character (TIC) is the
transformational program which help the students to set personal, professional or educational
goals. I learn to manage my future goals and perform accordingly in order to achieve that goals.
Purpose of this module is to learn new skills and develop my ability as well as capability to
perform and achieve my desired goals (Babcock and Thonus, 2018). With the help of SWOT
analyse, I understand my weaknesses which further can impact my professional life. So I have to
convert those skills into strength. These documents help me gain new skills that provide me
various benefits in the interview process to think critically, manage myself to make me better for
career perspective. Aim of this portfolio is to improve my learnings and skills which make me

to make knowledgeable, so I face the future challenges and able to generate solutions to
minimise the risk. As a student, I should have all these skills and in my career life I have to
acquire other skills to perform better or which make me competitive. I have to develop my
critical thinking process which make me able to process or analyse the situations, so I further
take actions accordingly.
MAIN BODY
Informal Email
It is one of the method of email writing, where people use the casual words for the
communication. There is no standard format of writing emails as formal emails have. These
kinds of mails write for the friends and family for any invitation or regular communications
(Gilmore and et.al., 2019). In the informal email writing, there is no need for the formality
because they are not your superior where you have obligation to be formal with the. Or your
family members not panellise for any mistake which you done in the email. With the help of
informal email, individual able to connected with their friends and family. It is the mode of
communication which improve my writing skills as well.
Formal Email
In this email writing, all the content should be to the point and which understand by the
reviver easily. Formal emails used in the professional life where sender have to use proper
standard of writing email. It should be started the “Dear”, “To Whom it may Concern” etc. In
addition, individual need to use professional abbreviations such as ASAP (as soon as possible),
P.S (please send) etc. Make sure to maintain the professionalism which shows positive impact on
the other party. This skill is very important for the students when they going to entered into their
career life. For the internal commination, organization use email methods so I have to learn
formal email writing which that is very essential or give positive impact on their superior.

SWOT analysis
With the help of SWOT analysis, students able to evaluate their strengths & weaknesses
and further identify the future opportunities as well as threats. It helps me to measure my skills in
comparison to the required skills for the role which individual have to perform. It helps me to
learn that how individual convert their weak skills into strengths and grab the future
opportunities as well. Students have to determine the objectives and make strategies accordingly.
In addition, by using SWOT analysis students in future perform better or able to achieve their
personal as well as professional goals & objectives. This topic personally help the person to done
their self-evaluation that is most important in order to enhance their skills for career point of
view.
Group work
It is the group of members that is formed by the management for the specific task or work
in order to achieve the business goals & objectives (Goodall, 2018). It is the corporative learning
which enhance the total output of the company through performing all the activities in well
manner. When a team effectively perform then they are able to achieve desired outcomes and it
will be possible when team leader and other group members work as a team & share common
goal which make group work more efficient or effective. This skill is very essential for students
to learn, because in their professional career they can be a part of group work or can be a person
who lead the entire group.
Thinking into character (TIC)
It is the personal or professional program which is used to set the personal, educational or
professional goals. It helps the individual to make strategies to accomplish the goals and further
ensure to acquire those skills. With the help of TIC, people able to achieve their desired goals.
Students need to analyse personal as well as professional requirement and further set the goals
accordingly. In addition, they have to build strategies or take necessary steps which maximise the

chances on completing goals as soon as possible it can be. Thinking into character is designed to
push individual thinking and force them to think better.
Referencing
It is the method where individual acknowledge their source and citation in the work
which further helps in providing understanding regarding where to data collect. It is very
important for the writer otherwise they unable to claim that information is authentic due to lack
of referencing. In the collage assignment, students have to put references and cited properly
which make their work academically more effective as well as authentic for its users. Students
should have this skill which make them able to acknowledge their work appropriately or get the
good marks in examination perspectives (Jomaa, 2019). Basically, referencing is the evidence
which support the material which written in the assignment by the writers. Individual can claim
or able to show the evidence from where they collect information or data.
Cover Letter
It is the document that called letter of motivation where individual introducer themselves
which contain various information for the readers. Main purpose of cover letter is to introduce
yourself and also mention their likes which individual love to do in their free time. In addition,
cover letter mention the job for which they looking for it, individual skills, job experience etc. It
encourages the readers such as interviewer to go through their resume with the help of cover
letter. So students should have this skill and they need to produce more attractive cover letter to
create interest for the readers.

Interview skills
For the students it is very essential to acquire interview skills because after completing
their studies they have to enter into professional life and before that. They have to face many
interview process, so they should have these skills which make them able to qualify the process.
Before going any interview process, individual need to do some background research regarding
company where they apply for the jobs (Kiriakos and Tienari, 2018). Interviewee should be
polite, use appropriate language for the communication, review their resume, well dressed and
ensure that body language will be decant because interviewer observe all these things and further
take decisions accordingly. Students should acquire interview skill in order to make yourself
ready for the interview process and able to find ideal job for yourself.
Data interpretation
It is the process of arranging data which make any sense that further utilize for the
analysis and present in the understanding form. Basically it includes numerical data which
individual have to manage and strategic decisions accordingly. This skill is very beneficial
because it is the part of daily life which most of the people used. Students should have this skill
and it make more competitive among the all. For the business point of view, individual should
acquire data interpretation skills which help them to make decisions regarding financial
resources and how further managed to maximise the productivity as well as profitability
(Wilmot, 2018). With the help of data interpretation, person need to evaluate positive as well as
negative aspect which can influence the business operations.
Academic writing style
It is the style of representing or expressing research and it will be defining in an
intellectual boundary. Academic writing focus on the structure and ensure that readers will
understand the content. Writing should have formal style or tone, no requirement of long
sentences, complex data, complicated vocabulary etc. Main purpose of this writing is to focus on

answers of the questions and ensure that it will provide the better understanding of this project.
Follow the structure, use evidences to acknowledge the content etc. Students should acquire this
academic writing skill. It will make individual able to write about the subject in appropriate way
and ensure that information will be clearly understand by others.
Books
It is the sources of information which help the students to collect information from
different books and used it in appropriate way. It is the most common sources which help the
students to prepare themselves for the exam point of view. In addition, books also used to collect
information in order to complete their academic assignment (Wingate, 2018). Students should
have book reading habit which further make them able to read long paragraphs or business
agreements. With the help of books, individual easily able to get the data or use this book as a
source of information which provide authenticity.
Power Point Presentation
It is the academic skill which is very essential for the students because in their academic
life they have to present many times. Basically, power point presentation used as an activity
where they have to prepare content for the presentation in front of many people. This activity
will be based on grade, so students need to prepare yourself accordingly. They should acquire
presentation skill which help individual to become confidante, improve their body language,
voice tone at the time of communicating, content of the PPT etc. Student should focus on these
aspects and prepare presentation accordingly. It helps the individual to learn how to present in
front of many people and in the professional life it is most required skills. In future individual
have to perform in the meeting, conferences, workshops etc.

REFERENCES
Books & Journals
Almatarneh, M. and et.al., 2018. The academic writing experience of Jordanian postgraduate
students at a university in Malaysia. Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Volume. 9.
Babcock, R. D. and Thonus, T., 2018. Researching the writing center: Towards an evidence-
based practice. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers.
Gilmore, S. and et.al., 2019. Writing differently.
Goodall Jr, H. L., 2018. Writing qualitative inquiry: Self, stories, and academic life. Routledge.
Jomaa, N. J., 2019. Perspectives of EFL doctoral students on challenges of citations in academic
writing. Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction. 14(2). pp.177-209.
Kiriakos, C. M. and Tienari, J., 2018. Academic writing as love. Management Learning. 49(3).
pp.263-277.
Wilmot, K., 2018. Designing writing groups to support postgraduate students’ academic writing:
A case study from a South African university. Innovations in Education and Teaching
International. 55(3). pp.257-265.
Wingate, U., 2018. Academic literacy across the curriculum: Towards a collaborative
instructional approach. Language Teaching. 51(3). pp.349-364.