Steps in the process
- What information can I leave out?
- How relevant is the information I have found?
- How credible is the information I have found?
- How will I record the information I need?
Information skills
Students should be able to:
- begin to analyse the usefulness of each source
- use key words to locate potentially useful information within sources
- skim each source for information
- identify information that has links with the task
- assess and respect privacy and ownership of information
- decide what to do about deficiencies with information
- decide whether information is closer to fact or opinion
- identify inconsistency and bias in sources
- devise a system for recording and synthesising information
- summarise information
- record quotations and sources of information.
