Finding Information Planning & Running an Information Search

Information-seeking

Think about a time recently when you were looking for information.

How did you identify that you needed information?

What did you do to find the information you required (if you were successful!)?

When did you stop looking?

Research is not just academic Finding a phone number

Looking up symptoms when you’re ill

Selecting a broadband provider

Buying car insurance

The research cycle

Can you map your

example onto this structure?

Plan

 

Run the search

 

Retrieve results

 Evaluate the

results

 

Save the

results

 

Modify and re-run the search