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Applied Sciences
   
 

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About Information Literacy

STEP 1: STARTING out

- Your information need

- Think about your need

- Read about your topic

- Defining keywords

Draw mind map

Broader & narrower terms

Other spellings

Examples per faculty:

Business

Mind map

Engineering

Mind map

Health & Wellness

Mind map

Applied Sciences

Mind map

Education & Social

Mind map

Informatics & Design

Mind map

- Cost of information

- Summary

- Quiz

STEP 2: FINDING

STEP 3: EVALUATE

STEP 4: Legal & ethical USE

STEP 5: COMMUNICATE


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  Research problem   Write an assignment about the "Coelacanth".  
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  Keywords   coelacanth, fish, fossil  
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  • marine life
  • fish
  • endangered species
  • prehistoric life
  • fossils
  • ancient animals
  • african fish
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t Narrower
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  • coelacanth habitats
  • coelacanth displays
  • coelacanth distribution
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  • Latimeria chalumnae (the scientific name)
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  Different spelling   Selakant (afrikaans)  
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See a mind map.

You must identify all the above-mentioned words to help you when you start your search. Using different words may retrieve different information, therefore use all possible options when you search for information.

After searches were done on the Library on-line catalogue on some of the words identified above, the following was found:

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t The Library on-line catalogue is a database of titles of all the books, journals and audio- visual resources available in the Library. t t
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It is clear that you get different results from different words used in the searches. That is why it is so important to identify and follow up every possible word related to your topic.