University of East Anglia | 1.10_Finding_information [MUSIC PLAYING]
First of all, I have to link the title of the assignments with the lectures that I've learned. So if there is any lectures that relate to the topics that I chose, I will look at the reading list that the lecturer gave us from the beginning of the course. And based on that list, I look for good information. I think that's another thing that comes in handy when you're attending lectures, because again, I think the lecturer prepares the lecture in such a way that he or she takes content from those readings as well. So if you know that something being more-- like attention is being paid to a certain book or certain piece of article, you know that's important. Well, first of all, students need to analyse the task they're required to do in order to have a purpose for reading. And a good way is to, first of all, listen to advice there is from the tutors. I start with-- actually, I start with Wikipedia, so I got the very base knowledge. But then I continue with more academic journal and books. And I think the important here is that you have to understand the question reasonably and you need to address that and narrow the topic, and then you will know what you need for the assignment. The internet obviously is a great tool for-- it's a great location for masses of information. The problem is the filtering of that information. I do use Google. It's very helpful. But you have to very careful about it. Because a lot of things that you can find in Google can be completely non-relevant. So you need to make sure everything is relevant. They don't have much time. And if they're reading information that's not useful for their assignment, they're not being efficient. They're not really helping themselves. Before, I feel just overwhelmed, everything. So when I find some authors, I have to include. I think it's important for students to analyse the sources carefully and to analyse whether or not they're getting information from a credible, peer-reviewed, published academic source. This is where Google Scholar's quite useful. It shows how many times a particular resource has been
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referenced by other people.
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