1. International Business
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2. 1. Identifying Information
Topic orientation – What do you need?
• What is the assignment asking you to do.
• Identify different types of information sources.
• Books
• (Scholarly) Journals
• Newspapers and other press
• The Web
• Research Databases
• Other types of information
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3. 2. Finding Information
Search strategies: How should you search?
• Which search terms?
• Which search techniques?
- Phrase searching
- Boolean searching
- Truncation
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4. 2. Finding Information
Search strategies: Phrase searching
To search for a whole phrase, put the words in between
quotation marks.
For example:
“global warming”
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5. 2. Finding Information
Search strategies: Boolean searching
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6. 2. Finding Information
Search strategies: Wildcard (or Truncation)
Use the wildcard character „*‟ to broaden your search.
Buddhis* =
Buddhist,
Buddhists
Buddhism
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7. 2. Finding Information
Choosing sources: Where should you search?
• Searching the internet
Google and other search engines (Making the most of Google)
Academic search engines (Google Scholar ~ Scirus)
Subject gateways (Infomine ~ IPL)
Encyclopedias (Wikipedia)
• Searching the Zuyd Library website
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8. 2. Finding Information
Choosing sources: Where should you search?
• Searching the Zuyd Library catalogue
• Searching external catalogues
PiCarta (only accessible at the Zuyd University Network)
WorldCat
• Searching the Zuyd library E-source database
Research Databases
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9. 3. Evaluating Information
Evaluation criteria
It is absolutely essential to evaluate the quality of any
information you want to use in your assignment.
Use the WWW technique:
Who – What – When
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10. 3. Evaluating Information
Evaluation criteria : Example
Official World Trade Organization Spoof World Trade Organization site
site [http://www.wto.org/ ] [ http://www.gatt.org/ ]
Here you see two websites, both let you think it is the website of WTO.
One is a parody and one is the official website.
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11. 3. Evaluating Information
Using social networks
Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are now
increasingly used by academics and professionals as platforms
for sharing ideas and information.
Remember, you still need to use the criteria described in this
section to evaluate information you find through social spaces.
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12. 3. Evaluating Information
Evaluation websites: Useful links
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13. 4. Referencing Information
How to reference
You need to name all your sources in two ways:
1. Within the body of your text (known as 'citing')
2. In an alphabetical list at the end of your work (reference list).
A bibliography includes all your in-text citations plus
any other sources of information you have used in preparing
your assignment.
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14. 4. Referencing Information
Styles of referencing
There are many styles of referencing.
Well known styles are:
- APA (American Psychological Association) style
- MLA (Modern Language Association) style
- Harvard style
- Vancouver style
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15. 4. Referencing Information
Managing references: EndNote
There are tools for managing references.
EndNote is a helpful software program you can find on the
Zuyd University Network.
EndNote helps students store and organize references in a database.
It is even possible to attach full text articles to the references in EndNote.
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16. 4. Referencing Information
Managing references: EndNote
If EndNote and MS Word are both installed on a computer (as is the case at Zuyd University)
the EndNote add-ons get installed automatically in Word. Then you can insert citations in
your text very easily. You can cite while you write.
And at the same time EndNote automatically creates a reference list and bibliography in
Word with a few mouse clicks. This saves a lot of time.
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17. More about Info Skills
on the Zuyd Library Website
click: Information Literacy
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