BMP3001 Academic Skills: Report Plan & Source Evaluation of PDP

This report plan outlines personal and professional development, emphasizing the value of short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals with personal examples. It addresses how author, purpose, reliability, and relevance affect source utilization. The plan includes an evaluation of eight sources, supported by references, and explores the value of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) with examples. It also includes an appendix detailing areas for improvement and strategies for time management, public speaking skills, and active listening skills. Desklib provides this student-contributed assignment to aid other students in their studies.

Report plan and evaluation
of sources

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Discuss the concept of personal and professional development..................................................3
Determine the value of short-term goals and address atleast 3 personal examples.....................3
Determine the value of medium-term goals and address atleast 3 personal examples................3
Determine the value of long-term goals and address atleast 3 personal examples......................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Determine how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a source...........4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
Discuss Evaluation of 8 sources to be supported in the report....................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................10
Determine the value of a Personal Development Plan with supported examples using identified
goals...........................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are defined by both technical and soft skills required by the individual to
accomplish objectives. Professional and personal development plan is defined by identifying the
areas of improvement and developing a schedule that needs to be enhanced within a period of
time. This report talks about personal and professional development, value of medium-term
goals, values and long-term goals and short-term goals, values personal development using
examples, the report also talks about that how author, purpose, reliability and relevance affect the
use of source, evaluation of different sources in the report (Cottrell, 2015).
MAIN BODY
Discuss the concept of personal and professional development.
Personal and professional development is an ongoing process of enhancing own
competence and skills for a future period of time and accomplish specific set of goals. A
personal and professional development plan helps to identify own strengths and weaknesses of
academic skills through which an individual draws the measures and action plan in order to
accomplish them within a limited span of time.
Determine the value of short-term goals and address atleast 3 personal examples
Short-term goals are determined by such goals that an individual prepares for a short span
of time. Short-term goals are crucial as it inherits a habit of setting goals and accomplish them
which is very useful in medium-term and long-term goals (Hanson, 2015).
Short-term goals that I have for myself are:
 Enhancing my public speaking skills
 Stress management
 Working on my listening and written communication skills
 Time management
Determine the value of medium-term goals and address atleast 3 personal examples
Medium-term goals are determined by such goals for a time being of 3 to 5 years. These are set
by an individual for not too short time or too long time, in medium term goals an individual gets
ample of time to work on his/her own skills and competencies prepare schedule plans and

measures to accomplish them. Unlike, short-term and long-term goals, medium-term goals play
an important role to build an individual’s core competencies by preparing action plan with
suffice time period. My medium-term goals are:
 I want to work as an intern as HR executives in a reputed firm.
 I want to do online certification courses pertaining to human resource management
 I want to build my portfolio by working on my academic skills.
Determine the value of long-term goals and address atleast 3 personal examples
Long-term goals are defined by such goals that an individual sees him/her in the future or
it is what an individual actually wants to become in the future career. Unlike short-term and
medium-term goals these are not for a specific time or month but it might take even longer
period to accomplish the set of goals (Helyer, 2015). It requires consistency for working and
learning on different skills and knowledge to become proficient and expert of what an individual
actually desires of.
My long-term goals are:
 I want to establish my own business
 I want to complete my Masters in human resource management
 I want to be a HR manager in a reputed business firm.
TASK 2
Determine how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a source.
While adding references in a report the main purpose is to support the discussion with
relevant information and knowledge, references helps to add useful sources where the
information is being gathered to complete the report work. The references added in the report
should be relevant, reliable, purposeful and should define the author who published the source.
Relevance helps to define that whether and if the sources added are relevant pertaining to the
subject of research and covers the information required to complete the report (Lejeune,
Beausaert and Raemdonck, 2021).
Purpose helps to define the authors purpose or motive for publishing source and how its add
value to your research subject.

Author defines information and description about the author or sites creator and overall
information about the sites quality and the information.
Relevance defines the added references matches the subject of your research and the information
is relevant enough to support the research subject.
The reliability of the source defines that the time period when the source was published and
updated. It helps to determine that the site from the sources taken is reliable enough and does not
contain any outdated information or broken links and other such false information that can
damage the purpose of the research subject (Osgerby, Marriott and Gee, 2018).
TASK 3
Discuss Evaluation of 8 sources to be supported in the report
Sources used in the
text
Author
(name of
the author
who
published
source)
Purpose (the
topic of
source and
area of
research
done by the
author)
Reliability
(whether the
sources are
authentic and the
time when it was
published or
updated last)
Relevance
(relevant
information or
resources used
by the author)
Cottrell, S.,
2015. Skills for
success: Personal
development and
employability.
Macmillan
International Higher
Education.
Cottrell, S. Skills for
success:
Personal
development
and
employability.
 Cottrell, S.,
2015.
 Macmillan
Internation
al Higher
Education.
Macmillan
International
Higher
Education.

Hanson, S.,
2015. Learning legal
skills and reasoning.
Routledge.
Hanson, S. Learning
legal skills
and reasoning
 Hanson, S.,
2015
 Learning
legal skills
and
reasoning.
Routledge.
Learning legal
skills and
reasoning.
Routledge.
Helyer, R., 2015.
Adapting to higher
education: Academic
skills. The Work-
Based Learning
Student Handbook.
p.13.
Helyer, R., The Work-
Based
Learning
Student
Handbook.
 Helyer, R.,
2015.
 Adapting
to higher
education
Adapting to
higher education:
Academic
skills. The Work-
Based Learning
Student
Handbook. p.13.
Lejeune, C.,
Beausaert, S. and
Raemdonck, I., 2021.
The impact on
employees’ job
performance of
exercising self-
directed learning
within personal
development plan
practice. The
International Journal
of Human Resource
Management. 32(5).
pp.1086-1112.
Lejeune,
C.,
Beausaert,
S. and
Raemdonc
k, I.
The impact
on
employees’
job
performance
of exercising
self-directed
learning
within
personal
development
plan practice.
 Lejeune,
C.,
Beausaert,
S. and
Raemdonc
k, I., 2021.
 The
Internation
al Journal
of Human
Resource
Manageme
nt.
The International
Journal of
Human Resource
Management. 32(
5). pp.1086-1112.

Osgerby, J., Marriott,
P. and Gee, M., 2018.
Accounting students
perceptions of using
visual metaphor as
part of personal
development
planning: an
exploratory case
study. Accounting
Education. 27(6).
pp.570-589.
Osgerby,
J.,
Marriott, P.
and Gee,
M.
Accounting
students
perceptions of
using visual
metaphor as
part of
personal
development
planning: an
exploratory
case study.
 Osgerby,
J., Marriott,
P. and Gee,
M., 2018.
 Accounting
Education.
Accounting
Education. 27(6).
pp.570-589.
Qureshi, A. and et.al.,
2016. Can personality
traits modulate
student engagement
with learning and
their attitude to
employability?. Learn
ing and Individual
Differences. 51.
pp.349-358.
Qureshi, A.
and et.al.
Can
personality
traits
modulate
student
engagement
with learning
and their
attitude to
employability
?.
 Qureshi, A.
and et.al.,
2016.
 Learning
and
Individual
Differences
.
Learning and
Individual
Differences. 51.
pp.349-358.
Sasson, I. and
Miedijensky, S.,
2020. Transfer skills
in teacher training
programs: the
question of
assessment. Professio
Sasson, I.
and
Miedijensk
y,
Transfer skills
in teacher
training
programs: the
question of
assessment
 Sasson, I.
and
Miedijensk
y, S., 2020.
 Profession
al
Developme
Professional
Development in
Education. pp.1-
38.

nal Development in
Education. pp.1-38.
nt in
Education.
Smale, B. and Fowlie,
J., 2015. How to
Succeed at
University: An
Essential Guide to
Academic Skills,
Personal
Development &
Employability. Sage.
Smale, B.
and Fowlie
An Essential
Guide to
Academic
Skills,
Personal
Development
&
Employability
. Sage.
 Smale, B.
and Fowlie,
J., 2015.
 How to
Succeed at
University
How to Succeed
at University
CONCLUSION
In the light of above discussion, it can be clearly stated academic skills and personal
development plan that enhances an individual’s competencies and abilities to accomplish feature
set of goals. The report clearly defined different values of setting goals, respective two different
time period, and the discussion on using relevant academic sources in the report.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Cottrell, S., 2015. Skills for success: Personal development and employability. Macmillan
International Higher Education.
Hanson, S., 2015. Learning legal skills and reasoning. Routledge.
Helyer, R., 2015. Adapting to higher education: Academic skills. The Work-Based Learning
Student Handbook. p.13.
Lejeune, C., Beausaert, S. and Raemdonck, I., 2021. The impact on employees’ job performance
of exercising self-directed learning within personal development plan practice. The
International Journal of Human Resource Management. 32(5). pp.1086-1112.
Osgerby, J., Marriott, P. and Gee, M., 2018. Accounting students perceptions of using visual
metaphor as part of personal development planning: an exploratory case
study. Accounting Education. 27(6). pp.570-589.
Qureshi, A. and et.al., 2016. Can personality traits modulate student engagement with learning
and their attitude to employability?. Learning and Individual Differences. 51. pp.349-
358.
Sasson, I. and Miedijensky, S., 2020. Transfer skills in teacher training programs: the question of
assessment. Professional Development in Education. pp.1-38.
Smale, B. and Fowlie, J., 2015. How to Succeed at University: An Essential Guide to Academic
Skills, Personal Development & Employability. Sage.

APPENDIX
Determine the value of a Personal Development Plan with supported examples using identified
goals.
A personal development plan rightly determines set of skills that an individual want to
develop and it also helps to draw measures to fulfil them, supported resources to accomplish
these skills.
Areas of
improvement
What do I have
to do?
Support and
resources
required
How will I
measure
success
Date of
accomplishments
Time
management
skills
In order to
develop my time
management
skills, I need to
prepare a
timetable in
order to balance
both academic
and Personal life
and give equal
time for
recreational
activities as well
as for academics
(Smale and
Fowlie, 2015).
Apart from that,
I also need to
take online
I need to take
online classes
Feedbacks from
the mentors
Two weeks

classes of
managing time
for engaging self
in doing
productive
things.
To enhance my
public speaking
skills
In order to
enhance my
public speaking
skills I need to
work on group
projects to
establish good
communication
skills and build
confidence
(Qureshi and
et.al., 2016).
Project work Self-evaluation One month
Active listening
skills
I need to
enhance my
active listening
skills by
attending
seminars of
leaders and
influencers on
different
academic topics
which will not
only enhance my
listening skills
Seminars,
workshops
self-evaluation two months

but also develop
understandings
on different
subjects (Sasson
and
Miedijensky,
2020).