The Big Six Skills

BACK TO RESEARCH SKILLS

1. TASK DEFINITION
   
   • What is my job?
      
   • What types of information do I need?
     
      
2. INFORMATION SEEKING STRATEGIES
    
   • What are my possible sources?
      
   • Which sources are the best?
     
      
3. LOCATION AND ACCESS
   
   • Where is each source?
      
   • Where is the information in each source?
     
      
4. USE OF INFORMATION
    
   • How can I best use each source?
      
   • What information in each source is useful?
     
      
5. SYNTHESIS (putting it all together)
   
   • How can I organize all of the information?
      
   • How can present the result?
     
      
6. EVALUATION
    
   • Is the job complete?
      
   • How can I do things better?
     
      

© Eisenberg and Berkowicz 1988

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