Academic Skills and PDP

Academic Skills and PDP

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TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Explain concept related to personal and professional development.......................................3
Discuss value of short term goals along with appropriate examples......................................3
Discuss importance of medium term goals along with examples..........................................3
Discuss value of long term goals in addition with proper examples......................................3
Personal development plan.....................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Discuss the methods through which Author, Purpose, Reliability, and Relevance affect use of
a source...................................................................................................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
Discuss evaluation of eight sources used in essay..................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

TASK 1
Explain concept related to personal and professional development
Personal improvement plan signifies set of action that is prepared by individual person in
order to grow personal and professional career. And, reflection is very important for person
improvement as it often needed information regarding skill as well as competence in addition
with area of development (Ahmed and Ward, 2016).
Discuss value of short term goals along with appropriate examples
It signifies goal that an individual person want to get in future period of time within 3-5 months.
It is assess that short term objective is prepare appropriate role for success in future period of
time. There are different examples of this kind of goal that is given below:
 Handle stress as well as anxiety in proper way
 Undertaking lectures by using online source that is helpful in increasing communication
skill
 To increase writing skill in order to execute work in academics
Discuss importance of medium term goals along with examples
This objective is achieved within a time period of 6-12 months. It is assessing that most
individual person possess goal and they do not keep their attention in respect of goal (Dennis,
Bailey and Abbott, 2018). Therefore, it is very important in success, growth and development of
individual person in future period of time. There are different examples of this kind of goal that
is given below:
 To increase my presentation as well as public speaking skill
 To undertake various courses online for getting diversity within career and get knowledge
on various subjects
 To increase knowledge for getting appropriate position in the workplace
Discuss value of long term goals in addition with proper examples
Long term objective are connected with above one year that is useful in motivating
subordinate to perform their work in an appropriate manner (Ktoridou, Doukanari and
Epaminonda, 2016). These goals and objectives can't be accomplished in short period of time