Portfolio: Different Types of Documents for Personal and Professional Development

This portfolio covers different types of documents for personal and professional development such as world of work, research skills, reflection skills, referencing, power point presentations, SWOT analysis, personal development plan, management skills, learning styles, critical and creative thinking, and academic writing. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the dynamic working environment, effective researching, reflective and critical thinking, and avoiding plagiarism in academic writing.

Portfolio

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Different types of document........................................................................................................3
Summary of the explanation of the portfolio content..................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................9
Books and Journals:.....................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
For achieving any task in a proper manner it is essential to learn about various kinds of
documents and material required for academic purpose. It is essential for me to develop my
portfolio of learning where I will mention about my experience that what I have learned during
my academic lectures. The university has provided various academic material which further help
me to develop my personal and professional development. The following report covers 12
document types to create my portfolio and a summary.
MAIN BODY
Different types of document
Document 1- World of work
After reading this module I get to know that the working environment is having dynamic
nature which means it continue to change. Technology played an important role in changing the
working environment like advanced computers and laptops have replaced the typewriters and
machines has replaced the people (Mladenov and et. al., 2018). The working environment is
going to totally change in future. I get to know that modern working environment require
technological skills, transformational mind-set, social media tools and channels, and many
others. It is essential for me to identify the opportunities and challenges for working within an
organisation.
Document 2- Research skill
Research is the term which is used for identifying something new or modifying the
existing knowledge (Willison Dr, 2018). Here, an individual collect, evaluate and choose data
appropriately. It is essential for me to gain effective researching skill for the development of my
professional life. There are two types of research, scientific research and social research.
Scientific research is based on logics, reasons and evidences. In context of social research,
people are aware of the research being conducted around them. It is essential for learners to sort
the information after collection to identify which data is important for them and which one is not
essential to eliminate unproductive data.

Document 3- Reflection skill
Reflection is considered as analysing about self and highlighting about own experience
(NEKODA, 2018). Here, a student can analyse their own performance and the ways to improve
their performance well. It is important for learners to break out things well, accepting challenges
for self and gain the confidence for self-improvement. There are various tools and methods for
analysing self-performance such as SWOT analysis, PDP plan and many others which will help
in analysing strong and weak skills.
Document 4- Referencing
Referencing is the act of providing sources to the content of a report (Krenn and et. al.,
2020). This will help to analyse the evidence content which is written in a report. There are many
referencing styles such as Harvard referencing, Humanities Research Association and many
others. According to me referencing is important because it will help me to represent my reports
effectively and wisely in front of others and it will provide an evidence for the content.
Document 5- Presenting with power point
It is essential for me to learn presentation skill in my life which will help me to develop
my professional career (Bolkan, 2019). An effective presentation includes proper headings,
attractive background, pictures and images and many others. Few of the presentation methods
are available like flip charts, power point, keynotes and many others. In today's current world
most popular and used presentation method is power point. It is essential that the content in
presentation will be written in pointers to make it attractive for readers.

Document 6- Personal SWOT analysis
SWOT analysis is a self-assessment tool which help an individual to analyse their
strengths and weakness as well as opportunity for growth and threats to defend (Wang and
Wang, 2020). It will help me to develop my personal and professional skills by converting my
weak skills into strong skills and converting threat into opportunities by adopting few powerful
strategies. It is essential for me to develop my SWOT analysis on regular basis so that I will get
to know about my condition of my skills on regular basis.
Document 7- Personal development plan
Personal development plan is one of the essential self-assessment tool which help to
analyse the actions and strategies adopted to convert the weak skills into strengthening skills
(Krisagbedo, Eze and Mamah, 2021). This tool will also help me to analyse time for achieving
target. It consists of reflecting upon own learning, performance and achievements. Keeping a
regular record of achievements is helpful for an individual for further studies and or employment
career. A PDP plan is the mixture of self- awareness, identity, talents, quality of life, aspirations
and many others.
Document 8- Management skills
Having self-knowledge is important for setting any target because it will assist an
individual that actually what they require and what not (Aini, 2018). Management skill are those
skills which are most essential for the development of an organisation because it helps a
company to effectively manage their resources and convert the tactics and strategies into actions
to achieve goal. Management skill is the combination of technical skills, conceptual skills
interpersonal skills. There are few management skills which I believe will help me in developing
my professional career and these skills are leadership skills, organising and planning skill,
communication skill and many others.

Document 9- Learning styles and reflection
Lifelong learning will help an individual to learn something throughout the life and the
self-awareness and personal experience is one of the best example of lifelong learning
(Cimermanová, 2018). It will improve knowledge, skills, competencies and many others.
According to me, I think that learning style should be adopted according to situation and
conditions and an individual must be flexible to adopt more than one learning style in their life. I
personally believe that observing the things and interpret them in a right manner is essential.
There are four kinds of learning style such as behavioural, cognitivism, constructivism and
connectivism. There are some important sources of learning such as traditional source which
include schooling, broadcast and many others.
Document 10- Critical reading
Critical thinking helps to analyse new ideas and innovative concepts for solving a
problem (Kelm and Smith, 2018). The main features of critical thinking are persistent which
means continuously reviewing the evidence. Effective critical thinking will help me to create a
good level of confidence and achievement in my life. While generating any idea, an individual
must get aware about pros and cons of the idea. It is essential to provide reasons for conclusion
and avoid simplistic conclusions. Plagiarism is an unethical practice where an individual copy
someone else assignment or project. Hence, whenever an individual does paraphrasing than
he/she must provide credit to original author.
Document 11- Creative thinking
Critical thinking is one of the most important skill in an individual's life which help them
to develop their personal and professional life (Amin and et. al., 2020). It helps to manage
information overload, helps to identify other people's opinion and many others. It is essential for

me to evaluate the information and there are six easy steps to evaluate information and these
steps are relevance, experience, viewpoint, intended audience, evidence and analysing when
published. Critical thinking is judgemental in nature and critical people have the ability to devise
new ways to carry out task.
Document 12- Academic writing
Academic writing will help an individual to analyse the ways of writing their academic
reports and projects in an appropriate manner (Carter and et. al., 2018). There are few methods of
academic writing such as paraphrase which means an individual express someone else idea in
their own language. Summarize is another method which include to distil only the most essential
ideas of someone else work. There are two types of plagiarism, deliberate plagiarism and
accidental plagiarism. Deliberate plagiarism means reviewing from books and articles and
copying and pasting from electronic source. Whereas accidental plagiarism happens when an
individual did not know when and how to cite. There are harmful effects of plagiarism hence, a
student must avoid plagiarism in their academic reports projects.
Summary of the explanation of the portfolio content
It is analysed that there are various kinds of documents which is used to create this
portfolio. It will help to understand the concepts and understanding of an individual related to
different topics. This portfolio is the collection of those topics which can help me to develop my
personal and professional career. I have used 12 documents in this portfolio and while making
this portfolio I get to know about by own skills and weaknesses to achieve my target. I get to
know that working environment is dynamic in nature which changes rapidly. Hence, I must
generate my skills flexible for accepting any kind of change around me. Research is one of the
another important skill which can be used to analyse the environment by collecting information
and evaluating it properly. Reflective skill helps me the most to understand my learnings through
my personal experience. Here I can reflect whatever I have learned this can help to analyse the

gap between my learning actions and my expectations. While presenting academic report it is
essential to focus on the content and it is essential to avoid plagiarism from the content. All
academic content should be referenced well which shows the evidence of content. It is also
essential to have power point presentation skill which help to represent any topic in an attractive
and appropriate manner. Using correct font size, images, headings and sub-headings will make
the presentation easy to understand and represent to targeted audience. It further helps to develop
confidence and motivation to face a group of people and represent the report effectively. SWOT
analysis is one of the most important self-assessment tool which can be used identify strengths
and weakness of an individual. PDP plan is another important self-assessment tool which can be
used to record achievements and the area for improvement. It is essential for me to develop my
portfolio attractive and easy to read. There are various management skills which can be used for
identifying growth opportunities for an individual. Communication skill is one of the most
important skill which help an individual to express their thoughts and ideas openly to others and
communicate with them in an ethical manner. Time management skill is another important skill
which help me to complete all my academic projects and assignments on time. Every individual
has different learning styles and attitude and it is essential to understand the situation well and
then adopt appropriate learning style according to situation. Critical learning thinking is one of
the most important skill which is essential to develop by individuals. It can help to provide new
and innovate ideas and concepts to solve any issue in a corrective manner. Academic writing is
another important skill which can help a student to analyse all requirement for performing
academic projects and assignments. Avoiding plagiarism is important, completing tasks on time
is also important for academic writing.
CONCLUSION
From the above information it is concluded that portfolio consist of having different
documents which can help an individual to clear their understanding about various topics.
Understanding working environment is essential because it is changing rapidly and various
changes has occurred in technology, skills of employees and many others. Research skill is one
of the another important skill which can be used to collect information appropriately and
evaluate the result. Avoiding plagiarism from academic content is essential to make it attractive
and ethical.

REFERNCES:
Books and Journals:
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Amin, A.M. and et. al., 2020. The Correlation between Metacognitive Skills and Critical
Thinking Skills at the Implementation of Four Different Learning Strategies in Animal
Physiology Lectures. European Journal of Educational Research, 9(1), pp.143-163.
Bolkan, S., 2019. Facilitating student attention with multimedia presentations: examining the
effects of segmented PowerPoint presentations on student learning. Communication
Education, 68(1), pp.61-79.
Carter, R. and et. al., 2018. Students use of exemplars to support academic writing in higher
education: An integrative review. Nurse education today, 65, pp.87-93.
Cimermanová, I., 2018. The Effect of Learning Styles on Academic Achievement in Different
Forms of Teaching. International Journal of Instruction, 11(3), pp.219-232.
Kelm, M.E. and Smith, K.D., 2018. Talking back to the Indian Act: Critical readings in settler
colonial histories. University of Toronto Press.
Krenn, M. and et. al., 2020. Self-referencing embedded strings (SELFIES): A 100% robust
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Krisagbedo, E.C., Eze, J.U. and Mamah, J.G., 2021. Language and Manipulation: A Critical
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NEKODA, K., 2018. Supporting Student Teachers’ Reflections on Teaching English in the
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Wang, J. and Wang, Z., 2020. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (Swot) analysis
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