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COURSE 1: INFORMATION AND DIGITAL LITERACY FOR UNIVERSITY

SUCCESS

W3: Critcally Evaluating, Filtering & Managing Information

 LEARNING OUTCOMES

• 1. Critcally evaluating information

– Identify the factors that make a source credible
– Apply criteria to evaluate the credibility of sources for an academic context
– Apply criteria to evaluate the credibility of web sources for an academic
context
• 2. Establishing relevance
– Understand criteria to evaluate relevance
– Scan and skim search results to evaluate relevance to the research
topic/question
– Apply criteria to evaluate relevance to the research topic/question

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 LEARNING OUTCOMES

• 3. Managing information
– Use file-naming conventions effectively to organize and store information
– Use software (e.g. EndNote, Mendeley) to effectively store information from
a wide variety of sources
• 4. Processing and categorizing information
– Use strategies to efficiently read and understand relevant aspects of
selected sources
– Select and prepare relevant information for assignments

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 1. CRITCALLY EVALUATING INFORMATION

• Critically Evaluating Information

– Scholarly purpose: language used, length, reference list, evidence,
authoritative author & publisher, included in references in other
– Authority: who wrote, who produce information (creadibility, reputation,
publisher)
– Audience: academic audience?
– Objectivity: information presented objective? any bias?
– Accuracy: information presented accurate? Can it be verified by other
sources?
– Currency: information up to date? Is it important to your topic field - IT,
history?

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 1. CRITCALLY EVALUATING INFORMATION

• Critically Evaluating Web Resources

– Publisher: check URL: .us, .vn OR .edu, .gov, .mil, OR .org, .com, .net
– Purpose: goal of the web, who is it intended for? any bias? who sponsor?
– Aesthetics & Style: bad graphic, confuse format, grammar, site map, index?
– Referencing: are the sources cited? Link to other repuatable sources
• Critically Evaluating Wikipedia:
– Audience
– Objectivity
– Accuracy
– Currency

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 2. ESTABLISHING RELEVANCE

• Does the source meet the needs of your assignment?

• Is the information appropriately explored (not too general or specific for your
needs)?
• Is the information related to your topic or your question?
• Is the information source written at an appropriate level?

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 2. ESTABLISHING RELEVANCE

• Please assess for relevance are Anderson's Unhomely at Home: Dwelling with
Domestic Robots and Noda et al's Impact of robotic assistance on precision of
vitreoretinal surgical procedures.

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 3. MANAGING INFORMATION

• Managing Information: Files (File name convention)

– Be Consistent. Decide on a naming style and stick to it.
– Include key information in folders and file names that will help you to recognize
the contents easily.
– Change file names of downloaded materials to be consistent with your own
system.
– Save downloaded materials in the appropriate folder in your hierarchy.
– Abbreviate if necessary, keep track of what they mean (UoS = Unit of Study).
– Use date format: YYYYMMDD_CourseCode_MaterialType (YYYYMMDD: date
of the lecture). Example: 20210510_SSL101_LectureNotes.
– Use author surnames only.
– Use _underscores_ or use-dashes-toseparate-words or Capitalise The 1st Letter.
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 3. MANAGING INFORMATION

• Managing Information: Folders (Folder hierarchies) in the computer, on

your USB stick or on the Cloud through Google Drive or Dropbox.

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 4. PROCESSING AND CATEGORIZING
INFORMATION
• Step 1:
– Assess credibility and relevance
– Understand main ideas by reading carefully: Abstract, Introduction, Headings/
Subheadings, Conclusion
– Decide read further or put aside
• Step 2:
– Gain further understanding
– For relevant sections: Read carefully, examine visual information (graphs, tables,…)
– Skip irrelevant or less relevant sections
• Step 3:
– Make detailed notes: organize information, organize your thinking, identify relevant
information
– 4 phase process: ‘Develop categories, Track, Categorize, Organize’ information

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