Planning your assignment

When planning your assignment you should consider the following:

• Why do you need the information?  Is it for an essay, a report, a presentation or to inform a design?
  • Refer to Moodle for details of your assignment, including how it will be marked.

• What do you need to find out about?  What is your question asking you to do?
  • Applying a Search Strategy, will help you to break down your topic into concepts.  You may prefer to approach this with a Mind Map.

• How are you going to search for the information?  What keywords and phrases are going to help you locate relevant information
  • Choosing Keywords explains how to improve the relevance of your search results significantly.

• Where are you going to look for the information?  For example, do you need up-to-date information from newspapers, academic journal articles, statistical data, an image or a video?
  • The Ocean of Information guides you to appropriate sources for different contexts. It also links to guidance on how to reference them correctly.

 

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