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COURSE 1: INFORMATION AND DIGITAL LITERACY FOR UNIVERSITY

SUCCESS

W2: Defining, Accessing & Searching for Information

 LEARNING OUTCOMES

• 1. Defining different kinds of information

– Identify common information sources for university students
– Identify the kinds of information specific to different disciplines
• 2. Understanding different kinds of information
– Understand the characteristics of different kinds of information
– Know how to utilize different kinds of information

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 LEARNING OUTCOMES

• 3. Accessing information
– Know where to look for information from various sources
– Find and use information in a variety of modes
• 4. Searching for information & documenting the search strategy
– Define an information need
– Use search terms and develop a search strategy
– Apply strategies to document and evaluate the information search process

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 1. DEFINING DIFFERENT KINDS OF INFORMATION

1.1. THE SCHOLARLY AND CULTURAL RECORD

• The cultural record:
– Includes all of the text that we come in contact with on a daily basis,
including social media.
– The types of texts: Facebook status, Literature-novels, poetry, short stories,
films and television shows, Musical compositions and songs, News reports
and articles
• The scholarly record:
– The curated account of past scholarly endeavor.
– The types of texts: academic texts, include textbooks, edited non-fiction
books, journal articles, state of the art articles, research reports, theses,
and conference proceedings.

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1.2. PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY SOURCES

• Primary sources: the source comes from someone who was there, or at
least very close to an event. Examples: journal articles, autobiographies,
correspondence like letters, emails, text messages, works of arts,
photographs, and musical compositions
• Secondary sources (which give us a secondary account) are a step
removed compared to primary resources and are an interpretation,
analysis, or overview of a particular event. Examples: biographies, books,
review articles and commentaries.
• Tertiary sources give us an account that is twice removed. Tertiary
sources draw upon and summarize primary and secondary sources.
Examples: handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and textbooks.
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1.3. DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC INFORMATION

• Different information sources are used in different ways in different
disciplines
• Example: a law student, a medical student

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 2. UNDERSTANDING
DIFFERENT KINDS OF INFORMATION
2.1. COMMON INFORMATION SOURCES AT UNIVERSITY
• Three main types are common to all fields
– Textbooks: provide the basis for lectures and tutorials.
– Course notes (course readers). They're prepared by lecturers or subject
coordinators when no textbook exists or when textbooks are deemed
inadequate. They covers subject knowledge
– Scholarly journal articles: more detailed and specific information than
what you might find in a textbook

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 2. UNDERSTANDING
DIFFERENT KINDS OF INFORMATION
2.2. CHARACTERISTICS OF JOURNAL ARTICLES
• Characteristics of Journal Articles
– Journal articles are expert authors, critique work, present new research,
peer review process, authoritative and credible
– Scholarly journals are subject specific, academic, periodically published,
current research.
• Journal Article in the Humanities: Abstract, Introduction, Body,
Conclusion, Reference
• Journal Article in the Sciences: Abstract, Introduction, Methodology,
Result, Discussion, Conclusion, Reference

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 3. ACCESSING INFORMATION

• Where to look for information from various sources

– Databases
– Search engines
– Social media applications
– Library
– Archives
– Field notes
– A variety of modes: written, video, podcast

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 4. SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION &
DOCUMENTING THE SEARCH STRATEGY
• Defining your information need
– Break down into sub-topics
– What information do you have already?
– What information do you need?
– Develop a set of search terms by thinking of synonyms for key terms in
the question
– Combine search terms to enter into databases and search engines

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 4. SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION &
DOCUMENTING THE SEARCH STRATEGY
• Developing a search strategy (Google Scholar)
– Quotation marks: results in exact words in exact order – narrow search info
– Synonyms
– Boolean search terms: combine terms to narrow/ widen the results (“”, AND,
OR, NOT)
– Date ranges
– Related articles
– Citation chaining
• Documenting and evaluating your search strategy
– Save Time
– Efficiently complete your assignment or whatever task it is

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 4. SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION &
DOCUMENTING THE SEARCH STRATEGY

• Discuss the implication of artificial intelligence doing traditionally

human tasks for technical, social and economic perspectives

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 4. SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION &
DOCUMENTING THE SEARCH STRATEGY
1. Break into sub-topic & Define key terms:
 Artificial intelligence – traditionally human tasks
 Technical implications
 Social implications
 Economic implications
2. What information you have? & What information you need?
3. Develop set of search terms (synonyms…)
 Artificial intelligence : robot, machine learning
 Human tasks: jobs, works, activities, employment
 Implication: positive/negative effects, changes, pros & cons
 Social: society, community
 Economic: economy, financial, employment/ unemployment
4. Combine search terms: ‘robots + possitive effects’; ‘robots + jobs’; ‘artificial
intelligence + unemployment’

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