Academic and Research Skills Report

This report outlines a personal development plan designed to improve academic and research skills. It includes a self-assessment of strengths and weaknesses, SMART objectives, and strategies for effective note-taking and research. The report also features a detailed personal development plan with specific targets, timelines, and progress tracking.

Academic and Research
Skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4
TASK 5............................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal development plan is a effective procedure which is used to maximise strengths
and skills of an individual. Main objective of this process is to attain target goals and objectives
in effective manner (Shapiro, 2011). Through this they can maximise their interpersonal skills
and working capacity to getting desired outcomes properly. For them, it is required to analyse
their academic and personal ability to improve them fro career development procedure. For a
learner, it is easy to adopt several element properly at initial stages, through this they can
maximise their working and research capacity. In this process, mentors, senior and guide provide
proper direction to an individual for getting desired outcomes. This process also uses in self audit
and personal development plan to analyse recover activity in their future enhancement. By using
these activities an individual can easily attain their target goals and objectives in appropriate
way.
TASK 1
For an individual, It is required to analyse their own strengths and weaknesses to improve
them through effective manner. In this process, I examine my interpersonal skills and some of
my inabilities to improve them properly. Through this I can manage my targets and goals in
effective manner to achieve them properly. For this, I needs to use self audit and analysis to
examine my overall abilities properly. This process elaborate that strengths requires to be
manage and weaknesses needs to be polish for a successful growth in future. All these activities
will be beneficial for me to identify my academic and personal capacity that where I am good
and what needs to be improve in possible manner. These are not only beneficial for my academic
approaches but also for future career development process. There is personal audit of my own
capability and inabilities are given below as -
Strength –
Personal skills: These are based on own abilities that helps to maximise working
approaches easily (Wong, 2011). It is supported to my personal approaches that I used to
accomplish any kind of task. These personal strength assist me to groom my future abilities and
skills in proper manner. Some of my personal skills are -
 I have a impactful communication skill that help me to grab several informations easily.
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 I am very good in problem solving approaches that aid me to resolve personal and
professional issues easily.
Academic skills: These skills are based on professional approaches that are helps to
resolve several issues and problems in effective manner. These strengths aid me to accomplish
my future targets easily. Some of my academic strengths is -
 I have specific leadership skill.
 I perform well in my research objectives.
Weaknesses -
Personal: For me it is require to improve my personal weaknesses that can affect on my
future and target objectives. These weaknesses can be -
 I am not as good in time management activities that has negative impact on my working
abilities .
Academic: These weakness has negative impact on professional and academic working
approaches. This type of inabilities are -
 I do not have an technological skills that enable me to adopt innovative ideas for my
professional working approaches.
 I needs to develop my presentation skill to easily covey my ideas in front of others.
SMART objectives – For me it is require to create my future targets and objectives on the bases
of my weaknesses. In this process I needs to develop a appropriate target that help me to achieve
all my goals easily as -
 To develop presentation skill in 1 year.
 To improve technological skill in 10 months
 To enhance time management skills in 7 months
TASK 2
Note taking is a specific approach that helps to mange and record information as well as
ideas in proper manner (Stagg and Kimmins, 2012). These activities assist to memorise
authenticate substances for a long term period easily. In this process, two different sources
provide helps as listening skills and reading power. All these activities aid to impact positively
on individuals memory. Note taking skills is helps in research process while an individual collect
data from further resources. For this, I needs to use my own interpersonal skill to manage all the
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gathering information at a specific place that I can use at any time. In this procedure, variety of
resources helping me to Noted key points of information as -
Noted key points of information from a variety of sources using active listening skills- For
me it is require to maximise my listening skill by attaining different seasons and Internet
medium. Each and every individual understand variety of information through different kind of
sources but in this, it s important that how they memorise them for a long period. To noted key
points of information I can use active listening method by -
 Conferences and seminars – These are the live sessions in which I can easily graining
proper information through mentors and seniors who helps top maximise skills and career
development procedure. Through this medium, I can easily gather authenticate
information that I want to collect for my future development procedure.
 Coaching and learning classes – This is a most specific medium that helps in note
management procedure. In this method, I can easily use communicate with my mentors to
resolve my issues ans problems properly. This process helps me in active me in active
layering methodology. Through this I can easily noted key point of my research in proper
way.
 Internet medium – Now a days, online study has vast impact on students life. Through
this we can easily getting proper and specific information at any where. This methods not
only helps me in note taking approaches but also in improvement of technological skills
easily. In this method, I can learn whatever I wants through listening and visualisation
process.
Noted key points of information from a variety of sources using reading strategies – In this
method, I can easily Noted key points of information by using reading strategies easily. Through
this I can manage specific information that I used to read through different type of resources.
Noted key points of information from a variety of sources using reading strategies can be -
 Online surfing – This is a most a specific method that uses to grabbing proper
information by several resources (Thiry, Laursen and Hunter, 2011). Online surfing is
appropriate medium on which I can easily read proper information on the bases of my
own requirement and need. This kind of medium assist to provide appropriate
information that can uses in research approaches.
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 Articles – This is a most specific medium that provide online and offline services to
analyse information by reading articles of different authors. It helps me in proper research
management approaches as well as in Noted key points of information specifically.
 Books and newspapers – This is a most common method that aid to provide routine
information to an individual by reading methods. Through this, I can easily noted key
points of several information that I reading by newspapers or general books. All these
activities provide secondary but authenticate information easily.
TASK 3
Research and projection is a most effective process in which an individual collect
appropriate information for specific topic to provide authenticate information to others. This is
not an easy process because area of research is vast and it takes a specific time period to gather
proper and specific information. In this procedure, I can use different methods and types to
collect proper information easily. For this researcher requires to use a proper plan that include
research structure. It is require to follow properly for getting appropriate information. These kind
of activities helps to maximise several skills of an individual as time management,
communication, technological, presentation, problem solving and most importantly research
skills. Research plan for this process can be -
Research plan
Tile Part  Research tile
 Conceptional
Background of research  Aim of the research
 research objectives
 Question
 Issues and problems
 Literature review
Methods of research  Primary and secondary research
 Data findings
Management plan for
research
 Ethical consideration
 Recommendation
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 Conclusion
Accumulative section  References
 Bibliography
 Appendix
For making proper research, I needs to use different types of sources of data collection
method as -
Primary research- These type of research is based on authenticate data and fresh report.
Through this I can easily analyse specific details that I want to know for my presentation and
research. For this, I can use listening skill of mine to analyse proper details. Some of the example
of primary research can be -
 Conferences and seminars
 Coaching and learning classes
 Internet medium
Secondary research – This type of information is based on historical data that is already exist
for information analysis (Bhatia, 2014). Through this, I can get specific information that is based
on several data and authors view points as well. In this process I can use reading strategy as for -
 Online surfing
 Articles
 Books and newspapers
TASK 5
Personal Development Plan
This is a most effective and impactful procedure that uses to analyse strengths and
weakness of an individual. It is also development plan that helps me to attain my future
objectives in effective manner. For this I needs to analyse my inabilities that are requires to
improve properly. After this I needs to analyse several methods that assist to enhance them
properly. To improve my professional and interpersonal skills, I needs to set a specific target to
achieve my goals in effective manner. These are the most appropriate process that uses to
getting higher benefits on the bases of my desire and need as well. My personal development
plan is given below as -
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My personal
development
targets
Short or
long term
target
How will I
achieve my
targets
Developmen
t date
Date of
review
Progress
made
towards
target
Further
action
required
Actual date
of achieving
target
Presentation
skill
Long
term
For me it
is required
to enhance
my
presentatio
n skill by
attaining
seminars
and
conference
s and
analysing
that how
they
people are
represent
their ideas
properly in
front of
others.
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2018
21st
January
019
70.00% For me it
is requires
to manage
my note
taking and
research
skills
properly to
getting
desired
advantage
s in
presentatio
n
approache
s.
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2019
Technologi
cal skill
Short
term
For this I
needs to
use online
sessions
and
internet
surfing to
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2018
27th
September
2018
50.00% To attain
my future
targets, I
needs to
imp0lemnt
innovative
ideas in
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2018
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maximise
my
technologi
cal skills.
With this I
needs to
analyse
how to
adopt
technologi
cal ans
innovative
process in
my
presentatio
ns.
my
working
approache
s. With
this I
needs to
attain
online
session to
maximise
terotechno
logical
knowledge
in
effective
manner.
Time
managemen
t skills
Short
term
This is a
most
important
aspect for
me in my
career
developme
nt
procedure
because
through
this I can
easily
attain my
targets and
1st April
2018
18th July
2018
65.00% At this
stage, my
seniors
and guide
can
provide
appropriat
e direction
to me that
how to
improve
my time
manageme
nt skill. In
other
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2018
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future
objectives
in proper
manner.
So for this
I needs to
manage
punctualit
y in my
personal
and
academic
approache
s.
hand, I
needs to
use online
test series
for
maximise
punctualit
y in my
personal
and
profession
al working
approache
s.
CONCLUSION
As per the above it has been concluded that personal development is a most important
process that help to analyse own abilities and inabilities by self analysis methods. Through this
an individual can easily maximise their interpersonal skill by using several methods and tools as
well. In this process, mentors, senior and guide provide proper direction to an individual for
getting desired outcomes. This process also uses in self audit and personal development plan to
analyse recover activity in their future enhancement. Personal development plan is also helps to
attain future objectives in effective manner. Through this an individual can maximise their
abilities to face several challenges easily.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Shapiro, E.S., 2011. Academic skills problems: Direct assessment and intervention. Guilford
Press.
Wong, B. ed., 2011. Learning about learning disabilities. Academic press.
Stagg, A. and Kimmins, L., 2012. Research skills development through collaborative virtual
learning environments. Reference services review. 40(1). pp.61-74.
Thiry, H., Laursen, S.L. and Hunter, A.B., 2011. What experiences help students become
scientists? A comparative study of research and other sources of personal and
professional gains for STEM undergraduates. The Journal of Higher Education. 82(4).
pp.357-388.
Bhatia, V. K., 2014. A generic view of academic discourse. In Academic discourse (pp. 31-49).
Routledge.
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