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Information-Based Research: An Introduction
For Instructors
Objectives
The modules of this tutorial address the following objectives:
Information Cycles: |
Awareness of a variety of information sources and their characteristics
Familiarity with the formats in which information is produced
Awareness of the chronology and patterns of information production and distribution related to news events and general empirical research
Understanding of possible uses of specific information types
Understanding of the concepts of primary and secondary sources and their significance
Understanding of the differences between scholarly and popular literature and its significance
Basic awareness of typical finding tools for a variety of information sources
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Topics: |
Basic understanding of a variety of sources for finding appropriate research topics
Ability to narrow or broaden a research topic to fit the scope of a specific project
Understanding of the significance of questions in information-based research
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Search Strategy: |
Ability to distinguish a database from a network or other information sources
Familiarity with the general characteristics of databases, including fields and record structure
Ability to distinguish the key concepts and terms related to a research question
Understanding of the relationship between search vocabulary and such issues as the time in which information is published and the discipline producing the information
Ability to generate broader, narrower, and related vocabularies for an information search
Basic understanding of Boolean logic and the use of the operators AND, OR, and NOT
Understanding of the role of nesting, truncation, and wildcards in precision searching
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Evaluating: |
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