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Mastering the Information Trail: Skills for Effective Research

Learn the importance of information gathering, the steps of the process, and how to utilize resources effectively. Enhance your research skills to excel in assignments, exams, and discussions. Develop strategies for information retrieval and expand your knowledge base.

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Mastering the Information Trail: Skills for Effective Research

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  1. Information gathering process

  2. Learning Outcomes • Identify six reasons why you need information; • Explain the five steps of information-gathering process as shown in the Information Trail.

  3. Why do we need information? • Supplement and compliment your course module • Prepare for discussions in classroom and for online tutorials • Produce assignments • Prepare for oral and written examinations • Expand your subject knowledge • Satisfy your curiosity

  4. Basic skills in using a library • Information Retrieval Skills (IRS) • Locating and retrieving information • Evaluating and selecting information • ICT Skills for Information Retrieval • Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) • Electronic databases (e-books and e-journals) • Internet websites

  5. The Information Trail • Step 1: Identify topic of assignment • Step 2: Identify information resources and sources • Step 3: Apply search strategies • Step 4: Evaluate and select information • Step 5: Present the relevant information

  6. Identifying and analysing topic of assignment • Identify • Main topic • Sub-topics

  7. Recognising Information • Types of information resources • Books • Journal articles • Chapters in a book • Conference papers • Websites • Types of information sources • Local databases • Commercial electronic databases

  8. Search Strategies • Author – to search using the author’s name • Title – to search using the title of the material • Subject – to use if you do not have information on author or title • Keyword – most efficient search strategy when you are not searching for specific items

  9. Boolean Connectors • AND • Combine more than one keyword • Narrow a search • Requires all words to be present • OR • Combine synonyms • Broaden a search • Will search any of the words • NOT • Excludes a word

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