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Once you have found information from a range of sources in various formats, you must decide if this information is useful and relevant to your topic and needs. The following will be considered:
- Relevance
- Timeliness
- Reliability
- Coverage
- Accuracy
In this module, you will learn skills to:
- Critically review your search results to determine if you have found enough relevant information, or if you require more and need to keep searching
- Understand how to look critically at information sources and what criteria are the most important in determining the quality of information
- Evaluate each source of information to see if it is good quality and relevant to your topic
- Understand whether the author has written the information well and why they wrote the information
- Recognise the context, culture and point of view behind the author's writing
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