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Information Literacy Modules

PLEASE NOTE: Information literacy modules listed below are designed to enable students to recognize the value of information and use it to make informed choices in their personal, professional and academic lives. The information literacy course is aimed at empowering students to:

effectively access,
evaluate,
organize,
synthesize and apply information from a variety of sources and formats in a variety of contexts

Notes on Five information literacy modules

Searching strategy or topic analysis, watch this video!
Information resources and information tools, watch this video
Evaluating information
Copyright and plagiarism
Bibliographic referencing and in-text

The above modules are available via Information Literacy Student Resource link

Contact person

Vuyo Kiva-Johnson, Faculty Librarian: Applied Sciences, Cape Peninsula University of Technology Bellville, 7535, + 27 21 959 6948; http://www.cput.ac.za/library

Dictionaries, encyclopaedias, Thesaurus

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Assignments, Projects...

Where to find information for your assignments? Understand your topic

Topic search? Where to start? Start with Reference sources like Encyclopaedia Britannica, credo reference, dictionaries that provide background information and key terms enabling more efficient search.

Looking for journal articles? search Food Science and Technology databases, Google scholar ..... to get latest articles. what is a database? Listen to this (Video)