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)