Questions to Help You Get the Information You Need From the Resources, Organize Your Ideas, and Solve Your Information Problem

Analyzing Information, Evaluating Ideas, Organizing and Synthesizing Findings

How do I organize for research?

• Research Organizer

How do I decide what is the most important information in a source?

• Evaluating information in a source

How do I find the important information in a book, magazine, pamphlet, CD-ROM, video, Web page...?

• Reading for information
• Listening and viewing for information

How do I get the important information from people?

• Interviews
• Surveys

How do I keep track of where I got what information?

• Citing sources (Mrs. Hughes' Page)
• Citing your sources (Mrs. Gibson's Page)

How am I going to organize my ideas and information to solve my information question or problem?

• Organize your ideas
• Synthesis  
• Computer as thinking tool