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Professional Practice

In your End of Module Assessment you are asked to "critically evaluate your skills as a strategic learner":

An Analysis of your Development Needs supported by a Personal Development Plan that demonstrates an evaluation of your current skills and identifies your strengths and your development needs for success in your studies and in your chosen career path. Your Personal Development Plan will be supported by information contained in your SWOT analysis.

Development Needs Analysis

Section A

Write a reflective report about your learning experience as an undergraduate student over your first term. (800 words)

Analyse your ‘ learning journey' as a student in your first term. It should be clear what learning points you are referring too and your contribution to the skills you have developed throughout the course of this module (from week 1 to week 11), e.g. your confidence, responsibilities and interaction with your peers.

Section B

• Working independently: My personal development needs (700 words)
• Briefly describe why is self-awareness essential and important for your future career.
• Explain what areas you need to develop following a critical SWOT analysis. Demonstrate how it would benefit you as a student to improve in the areas you have outlined.

Recommended Structure

Section One:
Development Needs Analysis (explanation and justification)
Word Count: 1500

Section Two:
Skills Audit & Personal Development Plan (Template Provided in Moodle)

Section Three:
Appendices - SWOT analysis

Introduction

What should an introduction do?
• alert a reader's interest
• indicate the scope and direction of the paper, and act as
a navigation guide to its reading.
• show the reader how you are interpreting and approaching the question
• provide a context for the main issue
• indicate the focus of the paper

Body

The body of your academic paper:

• The body of an academic paper must contain the arguments supporting your analysis. After you have presented your arguments or focus of your paper, you must back up your statements in a well-organised series of paragraphs supported by in-text citations and/or quotations. Together, these paragraphs make up the bulk of your paper.

Conclusion

The conclusion may include:

• a summary of the arguments presented in the body of your paper and how these relate to the assessment question
• a restatement of the main point of view presented in the introduction in response to the topic
• the implications of this view or what might happen as a result.