The Big Six Skills for Research
1. Task Definition: Define the scope of your topic: order your tasks, and creates a timeline for completion.
1. Task Definition:
1.1 Define the problem
1.2 Identify the information needed.
2. Information Seeking Strategies: consider all the possible sources of information that are available. Then weigh which sources are best.
2. Information seeking strategies:
2.1 Brainstorm all possible sources.
2.2 Select the best source.
3. Location and Access: think about the ease of finding both the sources and the information that resides within them.
3. Location and Access:
3.1 Locate sources.
3.2 Find information within sources.
4.Use of Information: reviews the information sources to determine what each source provides, and how the information can be used
4. Use of information:
4.1 Engage (e.g., read, hear, view).
4.2 Extract relevant information.
5. Synthesis: review the information and incorporate it into your research
5. Synthesis:
5.1 Organize information from multiple sources.
5.2 Present the result.
6. Evaluation: evaluate the information and research process
6. Evaluation: 6.1 Judge the result (effectiveness).
6.2 Judge the process (efficiency)
