BMP3001 Academic Skills and PDP Report: Goals and Evaluation

This report provides a comprehensive overview of academic skills and personal development planning (PDP). It begins by defining personal and professional development, highlighting their importance in skill and knowledge enhancement. The report then delves into goal setting, differentiating between short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals, providing examples for each, and illustrating how they interrelate within a PDP framework. Furthermore, it analyzes the impact of author, purpose, reliability, and relevance on source evaluation, and concludes with a detailed evaluation of eight distinct sources, assessing their strengths and weaknesses in relation to the research topic. The report emphasizes the significance of academic skills in achieving career and personal objectives.

Academic Skills and PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Task One..........................................................................................................................................3
1.Personal and Professional Development...................................................................................3
2.Short-Term Goals......................................................................................................................3
3.Medium Term Goal...................................................................................................................4
4.Long Term Goals......................................................................................................................4
Task Two.........................................................................................................................................5
5.Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance affect the use of a source....................................5
Task Three.......................................................................................................................................6
6.Evaluation of eight sources.......................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills is defined as a core skills of human in which it includes presentations
skills, referencing, academic writing and it also includes reflective practice and critical thinking.
This report help to define and describe personal and professional development and long term,
medium term and short term goals with various examples. It will also describe how author,
purpose, source, reliability and relevance affect source and in the end it will evaluate eight
sources in the report plan.
MAIN BODY
Task One
1.Personal and Professional Development
Effective personal and professional development help people to update their skills and
knowledge. It also assists them in their careers. Personal and professional development brief
explanation is as follows,
Professional Development: In this kind of development people develop their skills and
knowledge for their job (Bradley, 2020). They update their skills to improve their work
performance and to do their project or task effectively. Professional development help peoples in
their career and always hive them the highest possible level. Some example of professional
development are health and safety, IT training, Accountancy and budgeting and legal knowledge
or expertise. People can get these know by different sources such classroom based learning,
learning, training and development in the organization, mentoring and more.
Personal development: It is life long process which help individual to upgrade their self
according to environment. It is assists people to develop their skills and qualities which help to
achieve their goals in life. Personal development also beneficial for people to overcome their
distractions and help to do their work effectively. It also assists people to make better human
being. Some examples of personal development which include listen actively, stop
procrastination, be confident etc.
2.Short-Term Goals
It is something that people want to achieve in minimum time or as soon as they can. Short
term goals is something that people want to complete in as soon as they can and these goals help
to start their long term or medium term goals. It also affects their medium term and long term
goals (Holzweiss, and Parrott, 2017). It helps people to create good and effective habits and it

also assists for peoples personal development. Short term goals help in effective career and
provide quick feedback. It also helps them to stay focus on their tares.
Example of short-term goals:
Get a professional certification
Improve communication skills
Focus on the next step
Develop confidence
3.Medium Term Goal
It is a gap between short and long term goals. It helps people to stay motivated because
long term gaols take time. Medium term goals is also useful for checking progress of long term
goals (Trorey, and Cullingford, 2017). These goals are take less time than five years to complete.
It increases personal and professional development progress. It also affected by short term goals.
Examples of medium term goals:
Start Business
Pay off students loans
Increase efficiency in work
4.Long Term Goals
These goals help people to shape their future and give them what they want in life. It
takes minimum five to six years to complete their vision. Long term goals affect people whole
life and help them to develop their personality as well as their skills and knowledge. It assists
them to stay motivated and achieve their target in their life (Correll, Rubio, and Kane, 2018).
Examples of long term goals:
Get dream job
Become independent
Get university degree
PDP Plan
Goals Strategies Resources Time
Improve
communicatio
n skills
 I try to communicate
with different people
 Iwill do daily Practice
 Watch different
videos on effective
communication to
improve my
 One or two
months

comunication skills
Start Business  Create business road
map for my business
 To start my business I
will learn Business
management different
techniques
 I will join business
development
courses to complete
my mid-term goal
 Five to six
months
Get dream Job  I will try to develop
skills according to
company
 Complete different
course which help me
to gwet my dream job
 I will take
admistion in
specific institute to
upgrade skills and
knowledge
 One or two
years
Task Two
5.Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance affect the use of a source
Author:
In any source such as books, journal, blogs etc. their authors must be related to that
sources, and they have knowledge and skills. Their qualification and occupation should be
related to the source. If any author creating source then they must have that subject matter
expertise (Sorić, Penezić, and Burić, 2017). For book or journal or for website publisher also be
ensured the quality and the author background.
Purpose:
If any author publish their books or journal they should know their purpose. It includes
to provide information, to entertain, to sell a product and to persuade purpose they also the
intended audience for their source. Intended audience include scholars and academic researchers,
public and high school students.
Reliability:
Author also check their source accuracy and reliability with the help of some questions
such as the source is include facts and statics data, reference are included or not for evidence of

accuracy, has author disclosed the validity and relatability of the data? These question assist
author and public that source is reliable or not (Sachs, and et.al., 2019).
Relevance:
Its check the importance of the information needed or not which is mention in source for
this some questions are considered for instance who is intended audience and does information
related to the topic or not, is the information at an appropriate level etc.
Task Three
6.Evaluation of eight sources
Name Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
Soria, K.M.,
2017
Author is
professional
researcher.
Its purpose is to investigate
the relationship between
academic students.
In this
reference and
citation are
present
which make
it reliable.
This is
relevant
content
because it
used
academics
engagements
and academic
skills
development.
Drude, K.P.,
2019
Author is
psychologist.
Purpose of their report is to
explain the professional
development importance in
health practitioners to
maintain competences.
In this
different
components
are present in
tabular form
which make
it reliable.
It shows
relevant data
according to
title such as it
also describe
examples of
current
professional
organization.
Holzweiss, Author is complete Purpose of this book is This book It is relevant

P.C., 2017
its higher education
and it affiliated by
Sam Houston
University
guide people for
professional development
in higher education.
content is
reliable
because it
explains
professional
development
with the help
of different
data.
because it
explains
importance
of
professional
development
with pointing
different
issues.
Cedric C.,
2017
It is formerly
professor of
education at
University of
Huddersfield.
Its main purpose is to
differentiate individual
development and
professional development
in education.
It is reliable
because it
gives
accurate
example
which is
related to
topic.
This book is
relevant
because it
uses
references of
researchers.
Correll, C.U.,
2018
It has physiatrics
researcher.
Purpose of this report is to
identify risk ratio in
different goals.
In this
different
studies is use
which make
it reliable.
In this proper
referencing
and citation
are used for
accuracy.
Carey,
G., 2020
Author is Centre for
social impact.
Its main purpose is to
manage stages policy in
short term and long term
goals
It has reliable
because it
uses different
policies.
It is relevant
to current
situation
because it
launches
recently in
2020
Sorić, I., Author From Its main purpose is to It is reliable It is relevant

2017 Department of
Psychology,
University of Zadar.
focus on personality traits,
goals orientation and
academic achievement.
because it
mentions
prior research
studies.
to the topic
because it
helps in self
regulated
learning.
Sachs, J.D.,
2019
Author is public
policy analyst and
former director.
Its purpose to identify and
explain about sustainable
development of long term
goals.
In this
content
proper
referencing
are used
which make
it reliable.
It shows
development
gaols
achievement
with proper
statics data
which make
it relevant.
CONCLUSION
This report concludes that academic skills are important for personal and professional
development. It helps to develop different skills and knowlenge which help people in their
sustable career and goal deevelopment. It also help to evaluate that different sioyurce such as
books and juronal evaulation impornat to know that the content is reilable and relevat or not.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Soria, K.M., Fransen, J. and Nackerud, S., 2017. Beyond books: The extended academic benefits
of library use for first-year college students. College & Research Libraries. 78(1). p.8.
Bradley, P., 2020. Academic skills in the screenish era. Journal of the European Honors
Council. 4(1). pp.1-4.
Holzweiss, P.C. and Parrott, K.P., 2017. Careers in Student Affairs: A Holistic Guide to
Professional Development in Higher Education. NASPA-Student Affairs
Administrators in Higher Education. 1875 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 418,
Washington, DC 20009.
Trorey, G. and Cullingford, C., 2017. Professional development and institutional needs. Taylor
& Francis.
Correll, C.U., Rubio, J.M. and Kane, J.M., 2018. What is the risk-benefit ratio of long-term
antipsychotic treatment in people with schizophrenia?. World Psychiatry. 17(2), pp.149-
160.
Carey, G., Nevile, A., Kay, A. and Malbon, E., 2020. Managing staged policy implementation:
Balancing short‐term needs and long‐term goals. Social Policy & Administration, 54(1),
pp.148-162.
Sorić, I., Penezić, Z. and Burić, I., 2017. The Big Five personality traits, goal orientations, and
academic achievement. Learning and individual differences. 54. pp.126-134.
Sachs, J.D., and et.al., 2019. Six transformations to achieve the sustainable development
goals. Nature Sustainability. 2(9). pp.805-814.