Where's Your Evidence?

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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This engaging guide will equip students with the knowledge, skills and tools to find and evaluate academic information in a critical, informed and thoughtful way. It begins by encouraging students to think about the purpose of their information search, before taking them step-by-step through the process of searching for information, from sifting through search results to critically evaluating information. The final part of the book explores finding and evaluating information in the wider world, and shows students how to put the skills they've learned into effect in the workplace and in daily life.This will be an essential resource for students of all disciplines who need to master the fundamentals of finding information.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-04-17
Mått108 x 138 x 10 mm
Vikt80 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePocket Study Skills
Antal sidor112
Upplaga2020
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781352009620

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Emma Coonan is Research Fellow at the Centre for Innovation in Higher Education, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, where she carries out research into transformative teaching and learning approaches. A librarian for ten years, Emma's background is in academic, digital and information literacies in higher education. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Literacy and Associate Editor of the Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice.

INTRODUCTIONPART I: WHY GOOD EVIDENCE MATTERSChapter 1: What do we mean by evidence?Chapter 2: But what's the right answer?Chapter 3: What are my lecturers looking for?Chapter 4: Using Wikipedia and other factual sourcesPART II: CHOOSING YOUR EVIDENCEChapter 5: Finding your focusChapter 6: Information 'flavours'Chapter 7: Where to startChapter 8: Collecting your evidence: a 4-step planChapter 9: Taking it furtherPART III: EXPLORING YOUR EVIDENCEChapter 10: Getting your feet wet: skim reading strategiesChapter 11: Squeezing out the juice: summarising your skim readingChapter 12: Active notemakingChapter 13: Stepping stones: finding your way to (and through) more materialPART IV: USING YOUR EVIDENCEChapter 14: Putting the pieces togetherChapter 15: Dealing with conflicting evidenceChapter 16: Building the 'spine' of your argumentChapter 17: Signposting your evidencePART V: EVIDENCE IN EVERYDAY LIFEChapter 18: Reading between the lines-uncovering bias in everyday informationChapter 19: Social biases and structural inequalityChapter 20: Dealing with misinformation and fake newsCONCLUSIONREFERENCES.