SELECT
- How do I select appropriate information??
Once
students have identified one or more resources, they need to "extract"
the information they require. This
is perhaps one of the hardest parts of the process. Strategies like skimming and scanning, checking the Table of
Contents and Index are prerequisite skills to a closer examination of materials.
A web site evaluation sheet
t may be useful at this time so students don't
waste time on poor Internet sites.
Students
need to:
- Revisit
their focus
questions to clarify the information they require;
- Write
down the relevant notes in a note taking
format that has been chosen; and
- Write
down the source of their information in a bibliography.
How can you tell if a resource is going to help you?
There are many different features in books and other
resources that assist in the location of relevant information:
- The
title and cover of the resource
- A
'blurb" or summary, telling about the resource
- A
Table of Contents
- Index
- Chapter
Headings
- Illustrations
and labels
- Bold
key words
- The
date the resource was published
- When
it was last updated (for Internet sites)
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