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About this book
With the advent of the Information Society, access to resources is vital to the ordinary citizen, the academic, and the career professional, as well as in public administration and private enterprise. Information Pathways: A Problem-Solving Approach to Information Literacy is designed to serve as a textbook for courses that address the need of college students to develop a basic knowledge of the complex matrix of core resources for the retrieval, management, and exploitation of information. This book shows students how to:
ā¢Build effective search strategies for solving information problems
ā¢Evaluate and use information and information sources
ā¢Apply information skills to the writing process
ā¢Be at ease with numeric information
ā¢Integrate information skills for smooth problem solving
ā¢Maintain their new fluency with information
Organized into chapters that examine different ways in which information is structured, Information Pathways will help students develop and evaluate strategies for finding and adopting information.
ā¢Build effective search strategies for solving information problems
ā¢Evaluate and use information and information sources
ā¢Apply information skills to the writing process
ā¢Be at ease with numeric information
ā¢Integrate information skills for smooth problem solving
ā¢Maintain their new fluency with information
Organized into chapters that examine different ways in which information is structured, Information Pathways will help students develop and evaluate strategies for finding and adopting information.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The Information Horizon
- CHAPTER 2 The Complex World of Information
- CHAPTER 3 Finding Factual Information
- CHAPTER 4 Selecting and Navigating Electronic Information Systems
- CHAPTER 5 Practices of Information Organization and Access
- CHAPTER 6 Channels of Communication
- CHAPTER 7 Researching for Writing
- CHAPTER 8 Counting on Our Numeric Literacy
- CHAPTER 9 Putting Our Information Skills to Use
- CHAPTER 10 Maintaining Information Literacy Levels in a Changing World
- CHAPTER 11 Itās a Wrap! Some Final Thoughts on Finding and Using Information
- Sources for Further Exploration
- About the Author
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Yes, you can access Information Pathways by Crystal Fulton in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Library & Information Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.