Plan for Improving Academically

Personal Development Plan for Academic Year 2014

What do I want to achieve?

The main target for this academic year is for me to improve my academic writing in school. I would like to make sure I get the basis English language writing skills and know how to do the various forms of academic writing that we will be using the course of my education within this institution. The main reason that makes me want to achieve this is the fact that in almost all the subjects that I will be taking in this school, there will be some form of official paper that I will have to write and these official papers will have to be in the form of academic structure and the punctuations and grammar must be of accepted levels and even the language must be of the college level. I have to otherwise but to concentrate on having my ability to effectively write academic papers improved.

How am I going to achieve it?

There are several instructions that have been taught to us in the previous levels and the previous classes and they touched on several areas that one needs to be keen on in order to be able to write a good academic paper. So, in order for me to improve my academic writing below will be some of the issues that that I will be observant on and how I will ultimately achieve my goal for tis year.

I will endeavor to structure all my academic essays in the form of Introduction, Main body, Conclusion and the reference. These form the major parts of most academic writing hence will help guide me through the academic writing this year.

The other approach will be striving to ensure my punctuations are well taken care of and the grammar that is used in the papers is to the standards of college official papers. This will help me find it easy in making sense to the professors in my academic writing and obtaining clarity in my communication about a concept in a paper that I will be writing in the course of the academic year.

The use of correct Parts of Speech is yet another major consideration that I have to ensure get right this year. This I can only achieve through reading several literature that is academic and studying how the various parts of speech have been utilized in these collection of literature. By the end of the year, I will be able to effectively use the various parts of speech in a coherent manner.

The confusion that still presents itself in some of the English words when in the singular and plural form us yet another challenge I have to overcome. These are the words that do not take u -- s or -- es at the end in their plural form. They still confuse me and this year I have to ensure I get their plural forms correctly so that I am able to communicate effetely without constantly having to refer to other sources for the plural forms.

I will also ensure in the academic writing I avoid using unnecessary words that most of the time do not add any value to the paper. I will as well ensure I use commas in the correct places to express my ideas in writing much effectively, use appropriate phrases within the academic writing and general communication and also knowing where to use the capital letters and where to avoid them.

In the writing of my papers, I will also ensure that after writing any paper that is to be handed in for marking, I will have to proof-read it in order to pick out any of these above mentioned errors that might have gone unnoticed. With a good paper that has been proof-read and with no mistakes, I am sure of getting better grades.

There are various structures of different academic papers and it will be my aim as well within this year to be sure to get these different structures of academic writings. The structures will make more meaning if they have some good reasoning that is clear to the reader and this is also another thing that I have to achieve this year.