Academic Skills and PDP

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Academic Skills and
PDP

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are commonly referred to those skills which supports individual in their
learning process. This simply includes range of skills such as academic writing, referencing,
presentation skills, critical thinking, note taking, reflective writing and many others (Cowley and
Hyams-Ssekasi, 2018). Academic skills are highly important for every individual as it support
them out becoming more effective learner. Students are highly expected to have huge range of
academic skills so that they can attain success in any career. PDP supports individual in
developing themselves so that they can attain their proposed aims and objectives in effective
manner.
Task One:
Concept of professional and personal development
Personal and professional development is comprehensively said to be as the effective
plan that is developed by the individual with the motive of attaining their desired goals by going
through appropriate learning process (Ktoridou, Doukanari and Epaminonda, 2016). This simply
includes the both the individual as well as organisational goals.
Short term goals
Short term goals are referred to as those goals which allows individual to attain in coming
time. The overall duration of the short goals is the one which is expected to accomplish it within
12 months. Short term goals simply allows individual in focusing on single thing at one time. It
is supportive in raising productivity and also keeps the individual self motivated. This simply
provides value to the long term goals too as they would be automatically achieved with the
fulfilment of short term goals. Some of the core examples of this are:
 To complete 5 chapters in a week
 To change job within 2 months
 To waste less time during working hours