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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Example 1
Where can I find the information?
Example 2
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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
- 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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Identifying Information Needs
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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?
+ info
+ info
When and by who was the information created?
In what format might the infomation be?
+ info
+ info
Example 1
Where can I find the information?
Example 2
+ info
Examples of information formats
x close
In what form might the information be?
The information may be in
x close
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.
x close
Examples of where to find the information
x close
**Not all books are secondary sources**
Examples of types of information
+ info
x close