Academic Skills and PDP: Goal Setting and Source Analysis

This assignment delves into the concepts of professional and personal development, emphasizing the importance of continuous learning and skill enhancement. Task 1 focuses on goal setting, exploring the value of both short-term and long-term goals through personal examples. It also includes the creation of a Personal Development Plan (PDP) based on identified goals. Task 2 examines how 'Author, Purpose, Reliability, and Relevance' impact the use of a source, crucial for academic research. The assignment highlights the CRAAP test for evaluating source credibility and provides references to support the analysis. This assignment is a comprehensive exploration of personal and professional development strategies.

ACADEMIC SKILLS AND
PDP

Table of Contents
Task 1:..............................................................................................................................................3
Concept of professional and personal development........................................................................3
Describe value of short term goals by identifying at least 3 personal examples.............................3
Describe value of long term goals by identifying at least 3 personal examples..............................4
Describe value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example using your identified
goals.................................................................................................................................................4
Task 2:...................................................................................................................................................4
Describe how 'Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance' affect the use of a source...................4
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................6

Task 1:
Concept of professional and personal development
The concept of professional and personal development helps in managing various activities
relating to enhancing the capability of an individual in learning and growth throughout respective
career of an individual (Debognies and et. al., 2019). It becomes important for an individual to
develop and keep skills up to date with changing trends in the world.
Describe value of short term goals by identifying at least 3 personal examples
By setting up of a goal or a target is an important aspect, that provides proper management
of efforts of an individual for completion of given task (PLANNING, 2018). The short term goal
refers to various activities undertaken to plan every inch of efforts in relation to successfully attain
respective goal in the near future (MacCosham and Gravelle, 2017). Normally the duration of such
types of goals vary from 3-5 months. Setting up of short term goals breaks a long task into short
goals and allows performer to keep himself boosted and motivated towards completion of desired
objectives.
My short-term goals are as follows:
 Improving my learning skills
 Management of time
 Performing researches on subject matter
Describe value of medium term goals by identifying at least 3 personal examples
The time duration of such goals are generally 6-12 months. These types of goals acts like a
bridge between short term and long term goals. They ensure better efficiency of work is being
produced by an individual while performing or approaching to any allotted task (DiPaola and
Wagner, 2018). It helps in monitoring up of various tasks and activities being performed in short
term goals and assures that all activities are up to date with time and are being produced with
effective utilisation of available resources (Tattum and Tattum, 2017).
My medium-term goals are as follows:
 Expertise in various management theories
 Maintain my fitness with work
 Develop professional researching skills

Describe value of long term goals by identifying at least 3 personal examples
Long term goals refer to various goals sets up to accomplish a given task and will take
significant amount of time and efforts for its completion (Etkin, 2019). It could be preparing for
final examination or any objectives which will occur in past for a long period of time. It should be
considered while making long term goals that it may not become boring or hectic (Van Wingerden,
Derks and Bakker, 2017).
My Long Term Goals are as follows:
 Starting a business
 Retirement savings
 Purchase my own house
Describe value of a Personal Development Plan and construct an example using your identified
goals
Personal development planning refers to process of creating an action plan based on
awareness, reflection, values, planning and goal setting for developing up of personal traits and
abilities of an individual regarding attainment of respective goals and objectives of an individual.
Things to Learn Things to do Resources and
Support required
Measurement of
success
Target time
Improve my
Management
skills
Attending various
management and
business classes
Could practise
management
techniques in
practical life.
Feedback 3 years
Improve my
learning skills
Reading more and
more books
Support of
university library
Debating on
various topics
with friends and
family members.
4 months
Improve my
technical
knowledge
Practically
applying various
theories and
researching on
current business
environment.
Proper training of
technical courses.
Getting feedbacks
from any
professionalise
profile
2 years
Task 2:
Describe how 'Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance' affect the use of a source
It is being observes that, Author, Purpose, Reliability and Relevance has a great significance
as because it guarantees the reliability and credibility quality of respective academic research

(Gaumer Erickson and et. al., 2017). Developing a good quality of research paper is an inclusion of
citations from various authenticated sources that includes various books and journals as well as
viewpoints of various authors. Covering various topics with reliable citations in the text, helps in
delivering file with a good impression of readers of the report.
CRAAP is test that is conducted for assessing credibility of sources. It includes;
 Currency: This element focuses on date of publish of any information or data, which is
being used in the report. It should be acknowledging by the writer that information from
latest sources should be taken into consideration and information should be revised as well
as updated.
 Relevance: The information being extracted should relate to the given topic. Taking
information from variety of sources will bring better quality of report and will give good
impression in minds of readers.
 Authority: It refers to the author or publisher of the information. It speaks about creditability
of respective author or organisational affiliations.
 Accuracy: It refers to extraction of good and accurate data for building up of potentially
string report. All the information could be verified with personal information.
 Purpose: It highlights to the fact that, what is the purpose of the report or any fact.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Debognies, P. and et. al., 2019. Personal development of disadvantaged youth through community
sports: a theory-driven analysis of relational strategies. Sport in Society. 22(6). pp.897-918.
DiPaola, M. and Wagner, C.A., 2018. Improving instruction through supervision, evaluation, and
professional development. IAP.
Etkin, J., 2019. Time in relation to goals. Current opinion in psychology. 26. pp.32-36.
Gaumer Erickson, A.S. and et. al., 2017. Measuring the quality of professional development
training. Professional development in education. 43(4). pp.685-688.
MacCosham, B. and Gravelle, F., 2017. A model for achieving short-term and long-term goals in a
leisure career. Loisir et Société/Society and Leisure. 40(3). pp.388-400.
PLANNING, C., 2018. Personal Development Plan.
Tattum, D. and Tattum, E., 2017. Social education and personal development. Routledge.
Van Wingerden, J., Derks, D. and Bakker, A.B., 2017. The impact of personal resources and job
crafting interventions on work engagement and performance. Human Resource
Management. 56(1). pp.51-67.