Research an assignment
Basic information
skills
There are 6 basic steps in any research process:
Define your topic
• What do you know about this topic already?
• What do you need to find out?
Develop a strategy to find information
• Manage your time
• Keep good records
Locate the information
• Use the library catalogues to locate information
Use and evaluate the information
• This step is about sorting and sifting all the information
you have found,
• and then judging its source, relevance, and content in relation
to your assignment topic.
• These criteria may also be used for evaluating electronic
resources and web pages.
Integrate the information
• Here you write everything up
Review the finished assignment
• What sources were good - and why?
• What things worked?
• What went wrong and what did you do?
• Did you ask for help - how did that go?
For more information Edinburgh University Library maintains a very
good tutorial. More information here
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