Module 1.
How to Solve an Information Problem
1. Define Problem
2. Strategize
3. Seek & Evaluate
4. Use & Evaluate
5. Synthesize
Where to Start Research

Contents:
Introduction
Module 2: Search Techniques
Module 3: SD Library Network
Module 4: Proquest
Module 5: Infotrac
Module 6: Lexis-Nexis
Module 7: OCLC Firstsearch
Module 8: 
Module 9: 
Module 10: 
Module 11: Internet Searching
Module 12: Evaluating Internet sources
Module 13: Scholarly vs. Popular
Module 14: Citing sources
Module 15: How to Get Material Not Available Online

Step 5: Synthesize

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Step 5. Synthesize = Integrate the information from various sources to answer your question or complete your paper, speech, project, etc.

• Evaluate: Have you adequately answered your question(s)? made your decision? solved your problem? met all the requirements of your assignment, project, or other final product?
• Evaluate: Have you cited your evidence, giving credit to those who you quoted, paraphrased, or from whom you obtained ideas? Module 14 explains how to cite.

[The five steps are based on the "big six skills" for solving information problems described by Michael B.Eisenberg and Robert E. Berkowitz in Information Problem-Solving: the Big Six Skills Approach to Library & Information Skills Instruction (Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1990)].

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