Portfolio Management and Academic Skills

This assignment discusses the importance of portfolio development for students, including portfolio management, case studies, proofreading, and referencing skills. It highlights how these skills are essential for students to present their work in an effective manner, both academically and professionally.

PORTFOLIO

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
SUMMARY.....................................................................................................................................1
DOCUMENTS ................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
A portfolio is a grouping of financial assets where includes stocks, bonds,
commodities, currencies and cash equivalents as well as their fund counterparts,
including mutual, exchange traded and closed funds (Francis and Kim, 2013) . In a
portfolio also includes non publicly tradable securities and private investments. The
portfolios can directly manage by investors in reference to financial professionals and
money managers. In the particular report consist of several academic and professional
context which can help to readers regarding to value of their life. There are used some
of the portfolio to checked only learning outcomes and achievement in specific project &
task.
SUMMARY
In the particular report select portfolio of effective communication skills which can
applicable to academic and professional context. There are defined communication
skills, proof reading, conclusion, literature review, feedback, brain storming,
communication skills, citations/references, case study, the introduction, graphical
representation, critical evaluate and discussion. Above mentioned portfolio content is
useful for the students because it can provide specific knowledge. Literature review,
citations/references and case study can review make their work in authentic and
effective way to provide right result and make their academics of professional like in
good way.
The portfolio can provide an individual identity to particular student in reference
to their quality of work after that they can achieve their learning standards. It can help to
fulfil the requirement as per demand and the communication skills can present the
presentation skills, references and counter argument to provide help to those student
who can receive msg from other after using it. When students can present their work in
front of teacher so they can analysis the work of student through presentation skills,
graphical presentation. It further, in detail information it can provide description about
literature review and specific topic to make the content reliable and provide references
to search sources to provide the clarification regarding to providing information.
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During the completing of the project, proof reading and critical thinking of a single
person can affect and provide valuable output. In the particular report selected those
topics which can provide help to students in reference to improve their learning and
make them capable to obtain its goals and objectives. Graphical representation can
help to understand facts and findings in easy way and readers can easily understand.
Every college strict about the report so they want to right report so for this proof reading
is necessary and once a time check all topics which is considering into reports. Many
tasks can based on the different case study these are done after the reading it and help
to understand what are need to including in particular file. The introduction can provide
all information related to task and includes all topics which is considering in the report.
Brain storming through sort out typical problem which can create problem regarding to
design any project. So every research need to follow some methodology to gather
information in terms of different techniques which is related to historical and present
information (Stettina and Hörz, 2015).
There are defined the reason of selecting these topics that every student can
collect information regarding to their tasks which can help in conclusion regarding their
research. Student can identify that weather above using techniques, source,
methodology and information is beneficial or not. There are conclusion has been
providing al over description in reference to their work and it can show final impression
of their work. So basically above mentioned topics is essential for the students to
complete their task in reference to get high grades and it will increase the individual
learning.
DOCUMENTS The Introduction – An introduction can provide a clear idea to reader which type
of content include in particular task. It should provide authentic background
information on the specific problem or issues after addressing and should clearly
outline answer of articular questions. An introduction can relate to effective
writing skills and related to academic. That is introduce the particular problem or
topic of the essay to address whole context of particular tasks. In current time it
can help to improve writing skills and help to understand how to provide brief
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information of articular task. In the reference of future, an introduction provide
information to reader about their rationale behind their work. Graphical Representation – It is a diagram where set of information in graphical
way. The particular skill used by students to present facts and figures in effective
manner and it can help to easy to understand for readers. Generally, the
particular skill used by top management to present their company information
and any estimation of regarding to project t present in front of client. On the basis
of this representation the client take appropriate decision in reference to their
organisation. Students can take it as academic skills to understand how to
present facts and figures and it can help in future in their professional life as well
as personal life. In the future, it will take as most popular tool to present
information in graphical form and develop future opportunity. Literature Review – It is the process which is helping to scholars to search
particular topic and readers can easily get deep information regarding to their
topic. There are consisting of current knowledge, facts & figures, intense
research and different type of research methodology. With the help of this
readers can get on which page number they can get detailed information. It can
intensify the quality of work of the student by doing literature review increase
ability of thinking of each particular person. That is beneficial into academic life
an also their professional life to use their techniques to determine the outputs
and findings. In reference to future, it is most popular because it can provide
authentic and impressive result after the work (Teller, 2013) . Feedback – Feedback is an event that happen when the output of a system is
used as input back into the system as part of a chain of cause and effect. It is
important factor of learning process and it can show in many forms like negative
and positive. Feedback allows student to reflect on their learning because it can
provide those area where students can improve. Through feedback student can
improve their academic skills and get opportunity to self assess their skills and
capabilities. In present it can help to student to assess their work and know how
to do right work in systematic procedure. In reference to future scenario to
improve their skills and understanding capability.
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 Brain storming – It is important skill for generate new ideas to sort out design
problem. Brain storming can help to understand particular task and it is very
important of writing skills. The strength of brain storming is the future participants
have in drawing associations in between their ideas as a free thinker in the
environment and there by broadening the solution space. It is a technique which
can use at the time of writing reports and present topics in specific manner in
step by step. Through this technique design team and direct them to regulate
task in effective way. Communication skills – It is most important skill for for the academic of
professional context because it can help to improve their behaviour and also their
performance in reference to attain their goals and objectives. Communication
skill through improve skill of behaviour and present their work in effective
manner. It can help to develop loyalty, honesty and relation with others. For
every student, effective communication skill important for their professional life as
well as personal life. In present time the communication skill can help to search
out different options to particular problems and apply in effective manner. In
reference to future, it can help to student to enhance their skills and take as a
advantage in career growth (Thibaut and Connolly, 2013) . Discussion – It is defined as consideration of a question in open ans usually
informal debate a heated political discussion. Discussion is mainly used by
students when interprets and findings in light of what was already known about
the research problem being investigated and to explain any new understanding
or fresh insights about the problem. The discussion skill can help to student to
increase their communication skills as well as confidence in speaking. The skill of
discussion can help to a group for make decision and come to particular
decision. It can provide opportunity to students in reference to future to hear the
thoughts and ideas of other students. Critically thinking – It defines as a capability of think rationally, logically and
take important decision regarding to their academic life as well as professional
life. It helps the individual to spread out the process of thinking as well as
decision quality. Through critical thinking improve professional life because it can
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help to individual for decision making process at each level. It can also help to
improve work quality, productivity and profitability. Conclusion – It is considering as short overview of any project and it will
consider as essay to conclude work of individual and provide a particular point of
view. Conclusion has been defined as short and closing statement where
included the aims and objective that has achieved. A good conclusion can
provide positive impact on the reader and provide good reviews regarding to
task. Student can need to learn about the topic that how to conclude any report in
short way and it can help to improve their academic skills. As individual need to
learn this skills and in future can help to improve their skills and get good
reputation in an organisation (Yu and Wahid, 2014). Citations/References – It is a consistent method of acknowledging another
person's ideas which have use in own writing. It can provide authentication and
readers can feel reliable regarding to content. There must use references as
sources in work where includes facts, images, audio, websites, diagram and
data. When student write content that time need to authentic sources s that time
uses references and reader can use these references for deep information. It can
acceptable in many forms because in content writing applying specific
referencing style where uses in some subject areas, units and publications. Case study – It is a part of research methodology which refers to specific
method like method of analysis and specific research design to analysing of a
problem. The case study can help to each students to understand their tasks in
effective manner and provide guidelines that how to solve all questions as per
case study. In a case study analysis of a person, place, event and phenomenon
in order to examine key themes and result. It can help to students to improve
their understanding skills and build up good understanding power (Case study,
2018).
 Proof Reading - This is considered as an essential part of writing, with proof
reading errors made in the document can be identified. This is a practice often
used by the writers to ensure that content is free from all the mistakes such as
grammatical, punctuation, spelling etc. This helps in improving the quality of
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writing and skills of presenting any information relating to tasks. In current time,
proof reading can apply for particular task which has been already done which
can help to rectify problems in impressive manner. In future it can help to recheck
their work before submitting and help to search out problem in their task.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it has been concluded that portfolio can help to
students to present their work in effective way with their academic skills. It is important
for every students regarding to their professional life as well as personal life. All the
above mention skills is important to perform individually at the work place. Through
portfolio can identify behaviour of individual, learning power and performance to
develop opportunity in their life.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Francis, J. C. and Kim, D., 2013. Modern portfolio theory: Foundations, analysis, and
new developments (Vol. 795). John Wiley & Sons.
Stettina, C .J. and Hörz, J., 2015. Agile portfolio management: An empirical perspective
on the practice in use. International Journal of Project Management. 33(1).
pp.140-152.
Teller, J., 2013. Portfolio risk management and its contribution to project portfolio
success: An investigation of organization, process, and culture. Project
Management Journal. 44(2). pp.36-51.
Thibaut, L. M. and Connolly, S. R., 2013. Understanding diversity–stability relationships:
towards a unified model of portfolio effects. Ecology Letters. 16(2). pp.140-150.
Yu, G. and Wahid, A. S., 2014. Accounting standards and international portfolio
holdings. The Accounting Review. 89(5). pp.1895-1930.
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Case study. 2018. [Online]. Available through: <https://ebn.bmj.com/content/21/1/7>
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