Identifying Information Needs

Identifying Information Needs

What you need for an assignment or paper may be a combination of the answers to some of these questions

In what form might the information be?

What type of information do I need?

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When and by who was the information created?

In what format might the infomation be?

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Where can I find the information?

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Examples of information formats

• Text
• Audio
• Video
• Graphics
• Art
• Photographs

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In what form might the information be?

The information may be in

• Print/physical form
• Digital form

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When and by who was the information created?

Primary sources are first-hand accounts of an event, by people who had a directly experienced that event.

Secondary sources are any sources that are written from the perspective of someone is did not personally experience an event.

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Examples of where to find the information

• Libraries
• Archives

• Online

• Books
• Academic journals
• Magazines
• Social Media
• Newspapers
• Websites

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**Not all books are secondary sources**

Examples of types of information

• Current news
• Historical information
• Legal information
• Medical information
• Scholarly/academic information
• Peer reviewed studies
• Empirical studies
• Case studies
• Product information

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