Academic Portfolio for Professional Development Course

This academic portfolio presents a compilation of academic works and educational evidence created by a student to evaluate their learning progress in a professional development course. The portfolio includes a reflective summary detailing the reasons for its creation, such as assessing coursework quality, identifying learning goals, and documenting academic achievements. The portfolio encompasses twelve pieces of work, covering topics like academic writing, evaluating sources, communication skills, reading skills, presentation skills, research skills, paraphrasing, in-text referencing, learning styles, avoiding plagiarism, critical thinking, and numerical skills. Each work demonstrates the student's acquired skills and academic achievements, highlighting their ability to apply these skills to their learning and goal attainment. The portfolio serves as a long-term archive of academic accomplishments and aids in understanding the student's progress throughout the course.

Portfolio

Table of Content
REFLECTIVE SUMMARY............................................................................................................1
WORK ONE....................................................................................................................................3
Academic Writing........................................................................................................................3
WORK TWO...................................................................................................................................4
Evaluating Source........................................................................................................................4
WORK THREE...............................................................................................................................5
Communication Skills.................................................................................................................5
WORK FOUR.................................................................................................................................6
Reading Skills..............................................................................................................................6
WORK FIVE...................................................................................................................................7
Presentation Skills.......................................................................................................................7
WORK SIX......................................................................................................................................8
Research Skills.............................................................................................................................8
WORK SEVEN...............................................................................................................................9
Paraphrasing................................................................................................................................9
WORK EIGHT..............................................................................................................................10
In-text Referencing....................................................................................................................10
WORK NINE.................................................................................................................................11
Learning Styles..........................................................................................................................11
WORK TEN..................................................................................................................................12
Avoid Plagiarism.......................................................................................................................12
WORK ELEVEN...........................................................................................................................13
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving.....................................................................................13

WORK TWELEVE.......................................................................................................................14
Numerical Skills........................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

REFLECTIVE SUMMARY
A story is a document which is compile of several different academic work and other educational
evidences which are assembly and collected by the student for the purpose of evaluating there
learning progress, any academic achievements evaluating crossword quality. An academic
portfolio is basically a collection of students documents which are collected by him or her in
their educational life. Portfolio is a very important and informative document which is created by
students to accomplish their goals and to identify there progress. I have also developed my
academic portfolio which is compilation of several different academic work and numerous
educational evidences accumulated by me for different purposes. The first and foremost reason
for which I have developed my portfolio is to evaluate the quality of my course work and the
progress which I have made with the help of the particular course. Also this portfolio different
academic achievements which I have received during the course work is also mentioned.
Another reason for which I have created my portfolio is to identify and determine if I have met
my learning goals and standards according to the academic requirements for the course
(Sidebotham and et. al., 2018). Over my portfolio help to me in reflecting on myself and my
academic goals that progressiveness and my learning. Advantage which I received from creating
my portfolio is the I received a long term and long lasting archives of academic work and
evidences for my accomplishments during the course work and other related document to my
learnings. All the above reasons for creating a portfolio help me in three different ways that is
provided me a long term evidence for my academic learnings, helped me understanding my
progress while studying and learning in the course work and the last advantage I received by
developing a portfolio is it help me in attaining my long-term objectives and provided me report
about my progress and academic achievement. There are different forms of portfolios invisible
form that includes material such as written assignments journals completed tasks Lab reports
artworks physical reports and other material evidences of their progress and academic learning.
Portfolios can also be developed online known as digital portfolios or E-portfolio. It is
determined that portfolios can be of different types and each of them have their respective
purposes and motives. All the portfolios fulfil their respective objectives and the goals of student
behind developing them. I m including there is different documents and resources in my
portfolio and there are 12 pieces of work which I married in my portfolio. All these pieces of
work are as follows:
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1. Academic writing
2. Evaluating resources or useful
3. Communication skills
4. Reading skills
5. Presentation skills
6. Research skills
7. Paraphrasing
8. In text referencing
9. Learning styles
10. Avoid plagiarism
11. Creative thinking and problem solving
12. Numerical skills
These are the 12 documents and piece of work which I am documenting or combining in my
portfolio. All these documents highlights and identify different skills and academic achievements
of myself which are been utilised and achieved by me while completing my learnings and
focusing towards my goals and objectives.
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WORK ONE
Academic Writing
Academic Writing is essentially a device of correspondence that it enables the client or the
essayist to pass on gained information in a particular field of study on the papers in a composed
structure with the goal that others to can understand it and utilize it to show the taking in
procured by the student from the scholastic courses. Composing scholarly li will help the
understudy for the individual or the individual composition to investigate the substance fittingly,
think basically and furthermore centre around various procedures and styles of realizing which
makes it significant. In higher establishments of learning it very well may be extremely hard for
understudies to clarify what they know and have found out about a particular theme is didn't hold
a suitable scholastic composing abilities (Bessette and Arvai, 2018).
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WORK TWO
Evaluating Source
Source assessment is the procedure of basically assessing data according to a provided reason so
as to decide whether it is proper for the proposed use (Alajmi, 2019).
Need for Evaluate Sources
 Teachers anticipate that understudies should utilize insightful sources: utilizing better
sources regularly brings about better evaluations!
 Data can be out dated, erroneous, and even deliberately deceptive.
 A few types of data, for example, sites, permit anybody to contribute substance or exist
just to sell items or promotions by creating traffic.

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WORK THREE
Communication Skills
Having the option to INTERACT successfully is maybe the most significant of all fundamental
abilities. It is the thing that empowers us to pass data to others, and to comprehend what is said
to us. You just need to watch a child listening eagerly to its mom and attempting to rehash the
sounds that she makes to see how major is the inclination to convey. Correspondence, at its least
difficult, is the demonstration of moving data starting with one spot then onto the next. It might
be vocally (utilizing voice), composed (utilizing printed or computerized media, for example,
books, magazines, sites or messages), outwardly (utilizing logos, maps, diagrams or charts) or
non-verbally (utilizing non-verbal communication, motions and the tone and pitch of voice).
Practically speaking, it is frequently a mix of a few of these. Relational abilities may take a
lifetime to ace if for sure anybody can ever profess to have aced them. There are, in any case,
numerous things that you can do decently effectively to improve your relational abilities and
guarantee that you can transmit and get data viably (Melander and et. al., 2018).
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WORK FOUR
Reading Skills
Reading skills is obtained in a moderately unsurprising manner by kids who have ordinary or
better than expected language abilities; have had encounters in youth that cultivated inspiration
and gave introduction to education being used; get data about the idea of print through chances to
learn letters and to perceive the inner structure of verbally expressed words, just as clarifications
about the differentiating idea of communicated in and composed language; and go to schools that
give powerful understanding guidance and chances to work on perusing. Interruption of any of
these improvements builds the likelihood that perusing will be postponed or hindered. The
relationship of poor perusing results with destitution and minority status no uncertainty mirrors
the amassed impacts of a few of these hazard factors, including absence of access to proficiency
invigorating preschool encounters and to incredible, sound understanding guidance (Nambiar,
2018).
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WORK FIVE
Presentation Skills
Having nice introduction capacities is key with being powerful for my examinations just as for
the universe of work and past. Presentation is fundamentally conferring an arrangement to a
horde of individuals. One of the key clarifications I chose to move this power point slid is
because I have adjusted such an extraordinary sum for example: what is visual guide and how to
use it to have most outrageous impact. I found that correspondence isn't just about the giving a
talk yet fuses: your non-verbal correspondence, your position and the tone of your voice. From
this activity I have taken in the basic fixings to give a fruitful presentation. It has given me a
foundation whereupon I can make and hone my presentation aptitudes. Being anxious before a
talk is customary and with preparing it will get sensible; these are one of the various bits of
information that I take from this activity (Galán-Mañas, 2019).
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WORK SIX
Research Skills
Finishing research is a critical bit of this business the board course. I am amped up for working
up my investigation capacities considering the way that having research aptitude is principal for
this course. I have picked this power point presentation since it has given me information into
business investigate; how research is done and the sorts of research there are. In order to finish a
productive research steps that I ought to follow. I took in the qualification between applied
research and principal examine. I moreover took in the different sorts of data collection. I in like
manner made sense of how to do composing review. Composing overview is huge exceptionally
in case I have to keep away from lounging around inertly on attempting to rediscovery
something that has recently been found by various pros (Hamilton, 2018).
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WORK SEVEN
Paraphrasing
We've all sat in front of the network shows or heard reports we needed to outline for other
people. We may have told our companions, our family, or our associates about what occurred,
how it occurred, and why it occurred. We described the storyline, the principle characters, the
occasions, and significant focuses utilizing our own words. This is paraphrasing- utilizing your
own words to communicate another person's message or thoughts. In a summarization, the
thoughts and significance of the first source must be kept up; the primary thoughts need to come
through, however the wording must be your own (Butsa, 2019).
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