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    • 1. Define topic/research question
    • 2. Locate sources of information
    • 3. Select appropriate information
    • 4. Organise how you can use this information
    • 5. Presenting the information
    • 6. Assessing how it went. (This is important!)
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1. Define your task

Ask yourself these questions to help start off the information process:

What do you want to find out? 
Read the task - discuss what is involved. Develop an idea of the issues to be explored.

Think about:
What is your purpose? What is it asking of you?

What are the key words and ideas of the task? Identify key words - find similar key words - broader and narrower terms and ideas from other sources.
Research takes some planning and thinking.
When using a search engine - use AND, NOT, and OR and use quotation marks for phrases.  
Google.com.au

How Google works for a visual explanation.

Or use
Google advanced search

What do you need to do?
BRAINSTORM IDEAS...KEYWORDS...SIMILAR IDEAS...START THINKING.


Some tools to help you get started:

Use Visuwords to show visual relationships between ideas and words.

Copy and paste some info into a Wordle (it's a word
cloud) and you will see the main ideas.


Use Bubbl.us to create a mind map that you can upload to your blog.

Here is another good mind mapping tool that you can print.

Try Brainstorming some ideas here.
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