Personal & Professional Growth: Academic Writing & Development Plan

This report outlines a personal development plan focused on enhancing academic writing skills and professional growth. It emphasizes the importance of continuous learning and skill development, discussing the value of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals in achieving personal and professional objectives. The report includes constructive examples and self-assessment strategies for identifying current and target skills, addressing challenges, and setting realistic timelines. It also describes and evaluates different reference sources, highlighting their authoritativeness, purpose, reliability, and relevance. The conclusion underscores the necessity of acquiring diverse skills for personal and professional advancement, emphasizing the significance of effective referencing techniques in academic writing. Desklib provides access to this and other solved assignments to support students' learning needs.

REPORT PLAN

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCEPT of personal development plan..................................................................................3
Value of short-term goal with example.......................................................................................3
Value of Medium term goal........................................................................................................4
Value of long term goal...............................................................................................................4
Value of personal development plan along with constructive example......................................4
Describe and discuss the references sources...............................................................................5
Evaluation of resources...............................................................................................................5
COINCLUSION..............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal and professional development refers to the continue learning of skills which are
there can help anyone to get their work done in an effective way. In this, there is continue
learning of skill which can help to get better growth in personal as well as professional life.
There is high importance of personal and professional development to get the quality of life and
there is high need for the growth. Aim of this report is to understand and plan for academic
writing to demonstrate effective writing structure along with layout and also there is discussion
about the effective referencing techniques (Evans and et. al., 2017).
MAIN BODY
CONCEPT of personal development plan
This is the one which is able to help one to get better skill which is there can help them to
do things fast along with in effective manner. There are different reasons for which there is
highly need of personal development plan. They are the one which is able to help in define the
result and motivating one in relation to get better in their life to attain growth in their personal
life as well as professional life. This is the one which is able to help in determining the skill
which is there in person. In this, person is able to identify their skills which are there and the
person is not aware of it. This is the one which is able to help to perform the self assessment
which can help to get and learn new skills and its proper utilisation in personal and professional
life (Gopang, 2016).
Value of short-term goal with example
There is high importance of short-term goal which is able to help person to learn some
new skills in just short period of time. This skill which is learned in short time is able to help for
the growth either personally or professionally. Short term goal are the one which is there the path
of getting the long term goal. It can say that short term goal are like stairs to reach the roof which
means for long term goal. There are many of the example there which can help to identify the
short term goal (Starovoytova and Namango, 2016).
Example 1- To stay fit and healthy, I wake up early in the morning at 6 AM. This was my short
term goal to stay fit.
Example 2- One day I wanted to go for drive and then I picked up my key and went for drive.

Example 3- I was good in football and wanted to join the football club to learn more and that's
why I joined the academy to get better in football (Teräs, 2016).
Value of Medium term goal
Medium term goal are the which needs some time to attain them and they are also the one
which can help in to get better growth in personal and professional too.
Example 1- I was not well in communication, so to learn better communication, I have joined
communication class to get well in communication.
Example 2- Football needs high stamina which includes running and in relation to this, I needed
to achieve the target to run continuously 10 km.
Example 3- I am interest in management course for this I have taken admission in business and
management to learn the management course (Tuomainen, 2016).
Value of long term goal
To achieve something in life, every person have their own goal which they want to attain
it. In relation to this, there is need to achieve different short term goal and medium term goal
which can lead for long term goal.
Example 1- I want to own a business which is of flower business where I wanted to own
flower shop for this I need to learn management and learning about this.
Example 2- To attain my priority goal, I need to achieve one more goal that is to get
experience as a manager in some place or company which can help me out to learn the process
with roles and responsibilities of manager.
Example 3- I need to learn the time management which is highly essential for my future
goal in which that can help me out to easily manage all things.
Value of personal development plan along with constructive example
There is high value of personal development plan which is important to learn many skills
which can help to get and achiever short term as well as long term goal in effective manner.
Current skills Target skills Problems faced Time interval
My current skill is
communication skill
and in which I will
give myself 4 score
I want to score 4.5
(Lotter, 2016).
I face hesitation when
communicating with
unknown person
which I need to work
5-6 months.

out of 5. on it.
Creativity in which I
give myself 3 out of 5.
I want to score more
than 4.5.
Not able to think out
of the box which
needed to learn.
1 year.
In adaptability I give
myself 4.2 out of 5.
To attain 5. Get nervous and panic
in new situation.
6 months.
Patience level is very
low and I give myself
1 out of 5.
I want to score 4. Not able to control
when there is any
mistake by others.
1 year.
Describe and discuss the references sources
Author- This is the one who is spoke or deliver their though which is about the relevant
topic. This can influence other to get aware and to work on it.
Purpose- Main purpose is to learn and get the related information which is there about
the topic which gives many information regarding the topic.
Reliability- This refers to the quality of sources which is related with the sources of
references.
Relevance- This is the one which says that statement which is given by the author is
totally related with the content (Robert and Truten, 2018).
Evaluation of resources
Sources Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
Robert and
Truten,
2018.
The
reflectiv
e scribe:
Encoura
ging
critical
self-
reflectio
n and
Robert and Truten Increase skills Performance
improvement
Relevant to health

professio
nal
develop
ment in
pre-
health
educatio
n.
Journal
of
Medical
Humanit
ies,
39(4),
pp.447-
454.
Tuomainen, 2016.
A
blended
learning
approach
to
academi
c writing
and
presentat
ion
skills.
Internati
onal
Journal
on
Languag
e,
Literatur
e and
Culture
in
Educatio
n, 3(2),
pp.33-
55.
Tuomainen Helping in studies Helping students Organisational
help
Gopang, 2016.
Teacher
educatio
Gopang Helping in
communication
Improving
communication
Relevant to
communication

n and
professio
nal
develop
ment
program
s in
Pakistan.
The
Internati
onal
Journal
of
Research
in
Teacher
Educatio
n, 7(1),
pp.1-14.
learning.
Starovoytova and
Namang
o, 2016.
Viewpoi
nt of
Undergr
aduate
Engineer
ing
Students
on
Plagiaris
m.
Journal
of
Educatio
n and
Practice,
7(31),
pp.48-65
Starovoytova and
Namang
o
Help in
referencing
Increasing
referencing
techniques.
Relevant to
referencing.
COINCLUSION
Form the above discussion, it can be concluded that there is need to learn different skills
which can help to get better growth in personal as well as professional growth. In this, report

there is discussion about the personal development plan along with professional development
plan along with there is an information related with referencing techniques.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Robert and Truten, 2018. The reflective scribe: Encouraging critical self-reflection and
professional development in pre-health education. Journal of Medical Humanities,
39(4), pp.447-454.
Lotter, 2016. The impact of a professional development model on middle school science
teachers' efficacy and implementation of inquiry. International journal of science
education, 38(18), pp.2712-2741.
Teräs, 2016. Collaborative online professional development for teachers in higher education.
Professional development in education, 42(2), pp.258-275.
Gopang, 2016. Teacher education and professional development programs in Pakistan. The
International Journal of Research in Teacher Education, 7(1), pp.1-14.
Evans and et. al., 2017. Atomic spectrometry update: review of advances in atomic spectrometry
and related techniques. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 32(5), pp.869-889.
Starovoytova and Namango, 2016. Viewpoint of Undergraduate Engineering Students on
Plagiarism. Journal of Education and Practice, 7(31), pp.48-65.
Tuomainen, 2016. A blended learning approach to academic writing and presentation skills.
International Journal on Language, Literature and Culture in Education, 3(2), pp.33-55.