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Module code: IDBS101

Sub-Module: Management of Academic Information
Lecturer : Mr J Munyoro and Ms S Mlalazi
Assignment: Make a presentation in tabular form on each of the following types of
information sources and give a description of the source and the purposes for which it is
best suitable. Give at least 5 real examples of titles for each source. The table should
have three columns.
1. Newspapers
2. Websites
3. Trade Magazines
4. Popular Magazines
5. Non-Fiction Books
6. Reference Sources
7. Academic Journals

1. Newspapers
 Description
-newsapapers usually have
many topics. These include
political events, crime,
business,
sports,advertisements
and/or weather
news.Newspapers use
photographs to illustrate
stories; and often include
comics and other
intertainments, such as
crosswords and
horoscopes.
-they usually issued daily,
weekly, or other regular
times that provide news,
views, features, and other
information of public
interest and that often
carries advertisement.
2. Website
Description
-it can simply be called a
site
-it consists of interlinked
web pages
-the web pages consist of
content such as texts,
images, videos, audios,
etc which are related
-it is accessed through an
internet connection
-it constitutes the World
Wide Web (WWW)
3. Trade Magazines
Purpose Example
- advertisement of -Zimbabwe will never be
business brands a colony again
-to inform and educate - ED hints at extending
readers about the current lockdown
affairs/events -Bev escapes jail
-to entertain the reader -Government threatens
Econet
-Time for Zimbabwe to
rise, shine -President
Purpose Example
-presenting information -The 8 Best Software
-storing information Program for Small
-e-commerce and Business of 2019
education -Best Business
-media sharing Management software
-downloading information -The Six Best Ways to
-browsing and searching find your next Job-Forbes
for information -CareerBuilder
-communicating with -How to write a
people successful CV-University
-making decisions of Kent
-University of Zimbabwe
Library
 Description Purpose Example

-contain current news, to keep members of an -In the Driving seat

developments, and industry up to date with -Your way to success
products in a specific the newest information -Anyone can do it
industry. Trade magazines -helps a customer keep -stay creative
focus on practical track of trades and trade -the ultimate guide to
information for progress. your child’s wellbeing
professionals working in -helps a firm become a
the field or industry. more efficient trader by
-the magazines target learning where the firm
audience (people who do well and where it does
work in a particular trade less well.
or industry.
-manufacturers often
advertise their products
using trade magazines.
-they are a combination of
scholarly and popular
sources that professionals
in a specific industry to
inform and share
information about that
industry with one another
and those interested in the
industry.

4. Popular Magazine

Description Purpose Example

-they are designed to
inform without in-depth
analysis
-it consists of content such
as entertainment
personality profiles and
current popular culture
articles
-they are not scholarly
sources
-they are periodic
publication , generally
published on a regular
schedule (weekly or
monthly)
- they are financed by
advertising, purchase
price, prepaid subscription
-can be used when writing -Summer’s rich mix
research paper -fashion refresh
-for advertisement -what’s your true calling
-to entertain, inform or -‘She is still very much in
persuade charge’
-help and the reader -the race for the White
answer who, what, when, House
and where questions and
are essential for finding
information about current
events or issues
 -they have bright cover
with many glossy pictures
-they have lots of
advertisements
5. Non-Fiction Books
Description
-its literature based in
facts. It is a broadcast
category of literature
-it is a document or
content that purpots in
good faith to represent
truth and accuracy
regarding information ,
events, or people
-it provides fundamental
divisions of narrative
(specific prose) writing in
contrast to fiction.
6. Reference Sources
Description
-They are not meant to
read cover to cover.
-they are used to locate
specific facts and
background information
-examples include
dictionaries,
encyclopaedias, atlases,
bibliographies etc.
Purpose
-they improve
concentration of the reader
-the also improve better
communication
-they upgrade the brain
through reading
-one can understand
reality after reading non-
fictional books
-provides facts
-they enlighten one with a
specific idea of subject
Purpose
-reference materials are of
critical importance in
establishing comparability
and accuracy of analytical
results between different
locations and over time.
-they cite different points
of view.
-they validate what an
author is writing, by
referring to documented
evidence.
Example
-In cold blood ( by
Truman Capote)
-A brief history of time
(Stephen Hawking)
-H is for Hawk (by Helen
Macdonald)
-Out of Africa
-Hiroshima ( by John
Hersey)
Example
-Off the record
-Post Offices hold special
place in shaping of
modern Florida
-Bills target Lake mussels
-deportations to begin.
-American Heist
7. Academic Journals

Description Purpose Example

-often have a formal -to provide quality control -Research Article Title
appearance with tables, on research findings that and Disciplinary
graphs, and diagrams. are distributed more Convention: A Corpus
-they always have an broadly Study of Eight
abstract or summary -to disseminate to other Disciplines.
paragraph above the text, scholar the findings and -Fostering parasocial
may have sections conclusions. relationships with
describing methodology. -to guarantee the celebrities on social
-articles are written by perpetual availability of media (Chung, 2017).
authority or an expert in the knowledge, in the face -How to create
the field and the language of technological uncontested market space
includes specialised terms innovation and make the competition
and the jargon of the irrelevant (Kim and
discipline Mauborgne, 2015).
-Hemisphere differences
in the effects of cuing in
visual recognition tasks
(Cohen 1975).
-The biological basis of
personality (Eysenck
1967)
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