Academic Skills and Personal/Professional Development Report

This report comprehensively examines personal and professional development, defining key concepts and exploring the significance of short, medium, and long-term goals with relevant examples. It delves into the planning of personal development, including goal setting and the creation of illustrative examples. The report also discusses how elements like purpose, author, relevance, and reliability influence the utilization of sources. Furthermore, it provides an assessment of eight sources used within the report, evaluating their author, purpose, reliability, and relevance. The report concludes with a detailed reference section and appendices, including a personal development plan outlining goals, action plans, and timelines.

Academic Skills
as well as
PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK1.............................................................................................................................................1
Defining concept of personal along with professional development..........................................1
Explaining the worth related of short term aims along with some examples.............................1
Explaining the worth of medium term aims along with some examples..................................1
Explaining the worth of long term aims along with some examples..........................................2
Statement relating to plan of personal development as well as building of illustrations through
goals.............................................................................................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
Statement along with discussion in relation to how “Purpose, Author, Relevance as well as
Reliability” impact sources which are utilise...............................................................................2
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................3
Assessment of eight origin which are utilise in this report plan..................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
APPENDICES.................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Personal development refers to lifelong procedure which encourages individuals to work
continues for their future growth. Whereas professional development refers to the framework
which individual form in relation to their professional life. Both these two factors impact the life
cycle of the individuals and they continuously motivate them to work according to their
requirements relating to their respective career.
TASK1
Defining concept of personal along with professional development
Personal development implies to a procedure which is lifelong. It can be describe as a
way through which an individual assess his or her skills as well as qualities with the
consideration of their goals so that they can Serlio as well as they can maximise their respective
potential (Cui and Harshman, 2020) . It can be easily said that early improvisation in life modify
a person as an adult which also means that personal development should not be stop through the
life.
The motive of personal as well as professional development is to pull off individuals
personal learning as well as their improvement throughout their careerer. It is very essential for
them to enhance their skills along with cognition up to date and guarantee that they will work
efficaciously, risk-free as well as lawfully.
Explaining the worth related of short term aims along with some examples
Sort term aims implies to those things which a person wants to do soon in their life and
these things can make big modification in their life. They are accomplish by individuals within
the period on one day, may in a week, in a month or even in one year.
Examples of short term motives are mention underneath:
 Individual's need to trust themselves (Purwati, Suranto and Prasetyanti, 2019).
 They are require to finish their foundation year with success.
 They need more bravery to speak.

Explaining the worth of medium term aims along with some examples
These goals are formed so that they can be accomplish somewhere in between an
individual short term goals as well as their long term goals. They assist a person to stay actuated
when he or she are taking short term steps which are require to get stray progress towards their
goals which are of long term (Van Dijk, Vivian and Malan, 2019) .
Examples of medium term motives are mention underneath:
 To obtain a new job.
 To save money so that payment of house deposits can be made.
 Apply what they have learnt relating to business, in their professional life.
Explaining the worth of long term aims along with some examples
Long term goals implies to things which a person needs to do as well as accomplish them
in their future (Viberg, Mavroudi and Ma, 2020) . They require time along with planning as they
are not to be done within a week or in a time frame of a year.
Examples of long term motives are mention underneath:
 To buy a house.
 Investment in individuals own business.
 To buy a brand-new car.
Statement relating to plan of personal development as well as building of illustrations through
goals
Development of personal plan implies to procedure which involve creation of a pan of
action which is on the grounds of consciousness, belief, setting of goals along with personal
panning so the development of educational activity, relationship as well as career can be
achieved (OBIEKWE, 2019) .
Personal development along with professional development refers to acquisition of
learning in order to gain degrees relating to coursework which is formal, conferences as well as
opportunities relating to learning which are informal (Wozniak, 2019) .

TASK 2
Statement along with discussion in relation to how “Purpose, Author, Relevance as well as
Reliability” impact sources which are utilise
Elements which impact the sources which are utilised are mention underneath:-
Author: It implies to that person who is the maker or mastermind of any work which is in the
written form. His or her authorship determines the duty for what he or she has created (Pérez
Morales and Rodríguez Marrero, 2019).
Purpose: It define the main reason for which a specific creation is made or it can be said that it is
the result which came against the goals.
Relevance: It is a concept which define the usefulness of something which is studied (Zacher,
et.al, 2019).
Reliability: It is the probability through which the credibility of something can be define.
TASK 3
Assessment of eight origin which are utilise in this report plan
Source Author Purpose Reliability Relevant

Cui, Q. and Harshman,
J., 2020. Qualitative
investigation to
identify the knowledge
and skills that US-
trained doctoral
chemists require in
typical chemistry
positions. Journal of
Chemical Education.
97(5). pp.1247-
1255.Cui, Q. and
Harshman, J., 2020.
Qualitative
investigation to
identify the knowledge
and skills that US-
trained doctoral
chemists require in
typical chemistry
positions. Journal of
Chemical Education.
97(5). pp.1247-1255.
Cui and
Harshman
Determine
cognition
along with
skills.
It not
dependable.
Extremely
applicable.
Van Dijk, G.H., Vivian,
B.A. and Malan, L.P.,
2019. Creating
epistemic access
through a scaffold
approach: Academic
literacy skills
development for South
African first-year
public administration
students. Teaching
Public Administration.
37(2). pp.156-174.
Van Dijk,
Vivian and
Malan
Generate
epistemological
access with tree
approach of
scaffold.
Reliable
source.
Relevant source.
Viberg, O., Mavroudi,
A. and Ma, Y., 2020,
September. Supporting
second language
learners’ development
of affective self-
regulated learning
skills through the use
and design of mobile
Viberg,
Mavroudi and
Ma
Regulate self
learning skills.
Dependable
source.
Extremely
applicable.

technology.
In European
Conference on
Technology Enhanced
Learning (pp. 173-
186). Springer, Cham.
Wozniak, S., 2019.
ENGLISH FOR
ACADEMIC
PURPOSES AND
THE
ENHANCEMENT OF
FRENCH TRAINEE
CONTENT
TEACHERS’PROFES
SIONAL
SKILLS. Journal of
Teaching English for
Specific and Academic
Purposes, pp.341-352.
Wozniak Languages for
academic
intentions.
Not reliable. Not much relevant.
Zacher, H.,.et.al., 2019.
Academic career
Rudolp, Zacher,
Todorovic and
Ammann
Enhancement
of career.
Reliable
source.
Not a relevant
source.
OBIEKWE, S., 2019.
STUDENTS'TIME
MANAGEMENT
SKILLS ON KCSE
ACADEMIC
PERFORMANCE IN
PUBLIC
SECONDARY
SCHOOLS, KIAMBU
SUB-COUNTY,
KENYA.
OBIEKWE Improve level
of performance
in public.
Source is
dependable.
Relevant source.
Purwati, R., Suranto, S.
and Prasetyanti, N.M.,
2019. Analysis of
Argumentation Skills
in Biology Learning at
Surakarta Senior High
School. In ICEL 2019:
First International
Conference on
Advances in Education,
Purwati, Suranto
and Prasetyanti
Advancement
in humanities
education.
Not reliable. Applicable source.

Humanities, and
Language, ICEL 2019,
Malang, Indonesia, 23-
24 March 2019(p.
438). European
Alliance for
Innovation.
Pérez Morales, J.I. and
Rodríguez Marrero,
M., 2019. A website
for developing students
´ oral skills in english
for academic purposes.
Pérez and
MoralesRodrígu
ez Marrero,
Evolution of
oral skills.
It is a reliable
source.
Relevant source.
Valchanova. V. 2018.
[Online]. Available
through:
<https://enhancv.com/b
log/personal-
development-plan/>
Vassilena
Valchanov
To know the
requirement of
personal
development
plan.
Reliable
source.
Relevant.
REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Cui, Q. and Harshman, J., 2020. Qualitative investigation to identify the knowledge and skills
that US-trained doctoral chemists require in typical chemistry positions. Journal of
Chemical Education. 97(5). pp.1247-1255.
Van Dijk, G.H., Vivian, B.A. and Malan, L.P., 2019. Creating epistemic access through a
scaffold approach: Academic literacy skills development for South African first-year
public administration students. Teaching Public Administration. 37(2). pp.156-174.
Viberg, O., Mavroudi, A. and Ma, Y., 2020, September. Supporting second language learners’
development of affective self-regulated learning skills through the use and design of
mobile technology. In European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (pp.
173-186). Springer, Cham.

Wozniak, S., 2019. ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES AND THE ENHANCEMENT
OF FRENCH TRAINEE CONTENT TEACHERS’PROFESSIONAL SKILLS. Journal
of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, pp.341-352.
Zacher, H., Rudolph, C.W., Todorovic, T. and Ammann, D., 2019. Academic career
development: A review and research agenda. Journal of Vocational Behavior. 110.
pp.357-373.
OBIEKWE, S., 2019. STUDENTS'TIME MANAGEMENT SKILLS ON KCSE ACADEMIC
PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS, KIAMBU SUB-COUNTY,
KENYA.
Purwati, R., Suranto, S. and Prasetyanti, N.M., 2019. Analysis of Argumentation Skills in
Biology Learning at Surakarta Senior High School. In ICEL 2019: First International
Conference on Advances in Education, Humanities, and Language, ICEL 2019, Malang,
Indonesia, 23-24 March 2019(p. 438). European Alliance for Innovation.
Pérez Morales, J.I. and Rodríguez Marrero, M., 2019. A website for developing students´ oral
skills in english for academic purposes.
Online:
Valchanova. V. 2018. [Online]. Available through: <https://enhancv.com/blog/personal-
development-plan/>
APPENDICES
Plan for personal development
Goals Coveted
Proficiency
(out of 10)
Needed
Proficiency
(Out of 10)
Plan of action Time period
Power point skill 2 8 In order to enhance this I
need practice.
9 days
Networking skills 3 9 Talk to new people in
order to build connections.
21 days
Strengthen
communication
skill
5 9 Meet new people, join
personalty development
classes and participate in
more meetings.
30 days