Where's Your Evidence?
About this book
This engaging guide will equip students with the knowledge, skills and tools to find and evaluate academic information in a critical, informed and thoughtful way. It begins by encouraging students to think about the purpose of their information search, before taking them step-by-step through the process of searching for information, from sifting through search results to critically evaluating information. The final part of the book explores finding and evaluating information in the wider world, and shows students how to put the skills they've learned into effect in the workplace and in daily life. This will be an essential resource for students of all disciplines who need to master the fundamentals of finding information.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- About this book
- Part 1: WHY GOOD EVIDENCE MATTERS
- 1: What do we mean by ‘evidence’?
- 2: But what’s the right answer?
- 3: What are my lecturers looking for?
- 4: Using Wikipedia and other factual sources
- Part 2: CHOOSING YOUR EVIDENCE
- 5: Finding your focus
- 6: Information ‘flavours’
- 7: Where to start
- 8: Collecting your evidence: a four-step plan
- 9: Taking it further
- Part 3: EXPLORING YOUR EVIDENCE
- 10: Finding your depth: skim-reading strategies
- 11: Squeezing out the juice: summarising your skim-reading
- 12: Active notemaking
- 13 Stepping stones: finding your way to (and through) more material
- Part 4: USING YOUR EVIDENCE
- 14 Putting the pieces together
- 15: Dealing with conflicting evidence
- 16: Building the ‘spine’ of your argument
- 17: Signposting your evidence
- Part 5: EVIDENCE IN EVERYDAY LIFE
- 18: Reading between the lines – uncovering bias in everyday information
- 19: Social biases and structural inequality
- 20: Dealing with misinformation and fake news 20
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
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