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John Edmondson High School

John Edmondson High School

Virtus et Integritas

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Selecting

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.

Select: what information do I really need to use?
Image: Select: what information do I really need to use?

Online resources

Reading strategies

Skimming - reading to get the main idea reading only the main parts like contents, headings, introductions, summaries and conclusions. With skimming, you are trying to get a general impression of the material. Look for the main ideas. The main ideas are topic sentences which often occur at the beginning of a paragraph.

Scanning- look quickly for one thing in particular

Thieves (PDF 115KB) - Use these elements to gain an overview of text.

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