Report Plan and Evaluation of Sources: Personal Development - BMP3001

This report presents a comprehensive plan and evaluation of sources related to personal and professional development. It begins by defining the concept of personal and professional development, followed by an in-depth discussion of the value of short, medium, and long-term goals, with personal examples for each. The report then explores the significance of a personal development plan and provides a constructed example. Furthermore, it analyzes how author, purpose, reliability, and relevance influence the use of a source. The report concludes with an evaluation of eight sources used in the report plan, assessing their author, purpose, reliability, and relevance. The content draws on various sources including books, journals, and online resources to provide a well-rounded understanding of the topic.

Report Plan and
Evaluation of Sources

Contents
TASK 1.......................................................................................................................................................3
Concept of personal and professional development.................................................................................3
Value of short term goals and identifying 3 personal examples...............................................................3
Value of medium term goals and identifying 3 personal examples..........................................................3
Value of long term goals and identifying 3 personal examples................................................................3
Personal development plan......................................................................................................................4
TASK 2.......................................................................................................................................................4
Description and discussion of how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of a
source......................................................................................................................................................4
TASK 3.......................................................................................................................................................5
An evaluation of eight sources I have used in the report plan..................................................................5
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................7

TASK 1
Concept of personal and professional development
The Personal or Professional Development Plan (PDP) is a developed system from which
an employee (probably working with a professor, leader or overseer) sets out the educational and
training goals, methodologies and consequences. Plans differ according to individuals. Helping
you handle your own learning and development all across your working life is the goal of
professional and personal development. It 's crucial that you keeping learning and improving to
keep your skills and expertise up-to - date to guarantee that you keep operating comfortably,
professionally to successfully (Akrivou, Scalzo and Orón, 2020).
Value of short term goals and identifying 3 personal examples
There are discussed three short term goals that want to achieve in my personal as well as
in professional life. These values of goals set by me to short term motivation myself and achieve
this effectively such as
Gaining experience in leadership: Every year my university organize cultural event and it is
my short term goal to become leader of this event and gain experience in leadership. This goal
achieve by in 3 months.
Learning a new set of skills: It is my short term goal that learning a new set of skills that helps
me to improve my personal activities. To achieve this goal require to 4 months.
Attend a personal development seminar: It is another short term goal that to improve my inner
qualities and abilities. To accomplish this goal require to about the 6 months.
Value of medium term goals and identifying 3 personal examples
There are mentioned some medium term goals that are related with my personal life. The
value of these goals to achieve my long term vision such as:
Buy a house: It is valuable goal to buy a house in 6 months to continue my work. In order to
achieve this goal require to about the 1 year.
Graduate from college: In two years complete my graduation in accounting and find a good job
in my field. About 12 months remaining to achieve the graduation goal as medium term.
Pay off the bus loan: Due to more expenses face many problems but now pay off my bus loan in
10 months. Due to face some financial problem requires to pay off loans in 1 year 3 months.
Value of long term goals and identifying 3 personal examples
The long term goals are valuable that help to set an aim and follow a particular path in
systematic manner. The value of long term goal organizes my time in systematic manner and
manages all the resources effectively.

Increased earnings: I want to increase my earnings in following years to pay amount of house
and stay happily. To achieve this goal require to long time so achieve this goal require to about
1.5 year in appropriate manner.
Get dreamed job: It is my long term goal that to get my dreamed job and practices in accounting
field (Akkerman and Bruining, 2016). I wish want to become HR manager in Sainsbury but for
this require to more time and learn different things. For this require about 5 years.
Improve communication skills: To improve my professional career requires setting effective
communication skills. To effectively improve the communication skill requires to about 3 years
and understand different languages.
Personal development plan
By personal growth, students will enhance their faith, character traits, plan and strive to
achieve their ambitions. Academic: Pursuing personal development plans helps build
autonomous self-directed learners who are more likely to generate better educational
achievement (Kabilan, 2016). This plan helps to achieve goals in effective manner and for this
construct a plan such as:
Goals Action Time period
Gain leadership experience For this require to take notes
from the superior and
understand different types of
strategies that used by the
leader to lead a team
3 Months
Graduate from college Work hard and continue
maintain study to pass in
every subject.
1 year
Improve communication skills To communicate with
different types of people and
try to understand of their
languages.
3 years
TASK 2
Description and discussion of how ‘Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance’ affect the use of
a source
There are discussed various aspects that impact on the use of sources are mentioned
below:
Author: The influence of a writer on their particular field has historically been calculated
based on the number of academic papers that he or she has published, and other scholars have
mentioned the multitude of words such reviews have. Thus, maintaining a detailed list of your

writings and the amount of hours they have been quoted is an easy way of demonstrating your
effect.
Reliability: A paper is much more probable to be a credible source of knowledge if
written in the last couple of years. There's no tough lower limit here, but usually, that when a
citation is current, the stronger. That is because knowledge develops over time, and evolves.
Even because we now recognize that the Earth is not flat, there is indeed a lot of evidence which
has been disproved over history and confirmed (Hayes, 2016). If you take a gander at an article
on a homepage of a ruling party or organization help ensure that the intellectual property on the
official site is current.
Purpose: They need to first analyze the aim of the survey before evaluating the source. If
they are investigating for an academic article, and they need very credible, reliable, and valuable
references so the legitimacy of the publications will be judged by the private teacher. If people
peruse the web for the public interest, even so, and you are decided to leave to your very own
decision of the knowledge (McMillan, McConnell and O’Sullivan, 2016).
Relevance: Related sources are the ones pertaining to the research issue. It will be
capable of working out all that out relatively easily by learning or skimming specific sections of
documents and even writing down small charts that will lead to the accomplishment of them.
Humans’ presents you how and when to search down, as to where to search at credible sources,
and what queries to ask when you do (Wagner and et.al, 2018).
TASK 3
An evaluation of eight sources I have used in the report plan
Sources Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
Newspapers Akrivou To creator of
the source put
in the time and
effort to create
it
To be the
most reliable they
need to be peer
reviewed.
It is providing
to authentic
information for
the report plan
Journals Hayes It was usually
so that it could
be used for
something.
Journal articles are
probably the
most reliable
source of current
thinking in your
field
Offer authentic
data
Books Kabilan These books are
written by the
It is related with
reliability
It is related with
the research

reliable author
Internet Hamberger Depend on the
lot of research
Provide reliable
database
Offer authentic
data
Magazines Wagner Based on the
experience
Based on the
accuracy
It is providing
to authentic
information for
the report plan
Databases McMillan Collected after
the lot of
research
Relatable It is related with
the research
Library
catalogue
Akkerman Based on the
truth
This means
that other academic
s have read them
before publication
and checked that
they are making
claims that are
backed up by their
evidence
It is providing
to authentic
information for
the report plan
Encyclopaedias Sekerka Depend on the
lot of research
Authentic It is related with
the research

REFERENCES
Books and Journal
Akkerman, S. and Bruining, T., 2016. Multilevel boundary crossing in a professional
development school partnership. Journal of the Learning Sciences. 25(2). pp.240-284.
Akrivou, K., Scalzo, G. and Orón, J. V., 2020. How differing conceptions of integrity and self-
integration influence relationships: Implications for management, personal and
professional development. Archives of Psychology. 4(1).
Hamberger, N. M. and Moore Jr, R. L., 1997. From personal to professional values:
Conversations about conflicts. Journal of Teacher Education. 48(4). pp.301-310.
Hayes, C., 2016. Approaches to continuing professional development: putting theory into
practice. British Journal of Nursing. 25(15). pp.860-864.
Kabilan, M. K., 2016. Using Facebook as an e-portfolio in enhancing pre-service teachers’
professional development. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. 32(1).
McMillan, D. J., McConnell, B. and O’Sullivan, H., 2016. Continuing professional development–
why bother? Perceptions and motivations of teachers in Ireland. Professional
development in education. 42(1). pp.150-167.
Sekerka, L. E. and Chao, J., 2003. Peer coaching as a technique to foster professional
development in clinical ambulatory settings. Journal of continuing education in the
health professions. 23(1). pp.30-37.
Wagner, J. P. and et.al, 2018. Professional use of social media among surgeons: results of a
multi-institutional study. Journal of surgical education. 75(3). pp.804-810.