About InfoSkills
Learning outcomes
- List strategies for getting started with assignments
- Identify key components of an assignment question
- Describe assignment planning techniques, such as brainstorming and mind mapping
- Identify some assignment planning techniques
- Construct effective search strategies
- Identify potential sources of information
- Select appropriate sources of information
Module 1 - Planning for research
Module 2 - Finding information
- Describe the access tools available to you for finding information
- Use Library catalogues to find resources
- Select Library databases to find journal articles
- Identify effective search techniques
- Describe the characteristics of Internet search engines
- Discuss the nature of information found on the Internet
- Review and manage your search results
- Identify why it is important to evaluate information
- Identify criteria used for the evaluation of sources of information
- Apply evaluative criteria to information found across a range of publication types
Module 3 - Evaluating information
Module 4 - Writing and plagiarism
- Explain the values underpinning academic integrity
- Define plagiarism and academic misconduct
- Identify University of Newcastle policies on Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct
- Describe the use of plagiarism detection and prevention software
- Explain the consequences for students of plagiarism and academic misconduct at the University of Newcastle
- Identify strategies for good academic practice in your writing, eg. notetaking, acknowledging your sources
- Describe techniques for managing and compiling reference lists and bibliographies
- Identify some of the issues associated with intellectual property
- Use information appropriately without breaching copyright
- Identify issues with Indigenous cultural and intellectual property
- Discuss censorship and freedom of speech issues
- Use information technology appropriately
- Use inclusive language in your communications at University
Module 5 - Using information ethically
- Apply the conventions of academic writing to
your written assignments
- Recognise the importance of the major components
of academic writing
- Apply the basic rules of content, construction
and format to your written assignments
- Recognise differences in the basic types of
academic writing
- Recognise the importance of presentation when
submitting your written assignments
- Apply strategies to protect the academic integrity of your written assignment
Module 6 - Academic writing
Redevelopment
This tutorial is the 2013 update of the 2004 redeveloped InfoSkills tutorial. The tutorial incorporates both information literacy and academic integrity complementing both the Academic Integrity Module (AIM) developed by the University's Centre for Teaching and Learning and the InfoSkills formative assessment, which was developed and embedded within Blackboard as part of the 2013 work. The content of the tutorial has been mapped against the Australian and New Zealand Information Literacy Framework (2004).
The 2013 redevelopment was achieved by staff within the Library and in consultation with the Centre for Teaching and Learning.
Please contact us if you have any queries about this project or tutorial.