Steps in the process

What information can I leave out?

How relevant is the information I have found?

How credible is the information I have found?

How will I record the information I need?

Students should be able to:

• begin to analyse the usefulness of each source

• use key words to locate potentially useful information within sources

• skim each source for information

• identify information that has links with the task

• assess and respect privacy and ownership of information

• decide what to do about deficiencies within information

• decide whether information is closer to fact or opinion

• assess the credibility of sources which express opinion

• identify inconsistency and bias in sources

• devise a system for recording and synthesising information

• summarise information

• record quotations and sources of information.