International Social Work year 2 - information skills: Introduction

How to become an information literate student. 
Last year you had a lecture about searching and finding reliable sources. This year we are going to place searching and finding reliable sources in a larger context: Information Skills. In six steps, you learn to structure your literature research. 

You have information skills if you are able to gather, assess, process and present reliable information in a systematic way. This is an important part of the ‘research skills’ competence. You acquire information skills by systematically going through the process of searching for information.
The learning outcome is that you know exactly where to find reliable information and how to apply these sources in your reports. It's all about high quality literature and how to use it correctly and ethically. 

It is important to keep track of the research you have done. This includes the databases that you have searched in, the search terms you used to find information and the sources that you found. A search scheme can be a useful tool. An example can be downloaded below.