Using the information you have collected for your academic project.

1. integrate the information

2. Malcolm Gladwell says:
“We live in a world saturated with information. We
have virtually unlimited amounts of information at
our fingertips at all times ... But what I have sensed
is an enormous frustration with the unexpected
costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with
information. We have come to
confuse information with
understanding.”
(emphasis not in original)
Gladwell, Malcolm. 2005. Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking. Penguin Books,
London. Page 264.

3. collect what you know

4. capture
sheets
from
reading
each
referenc
e
read
list of
referenc
es you
decided
to find
find
page of
what
you
decide
d you
needed
what
READ IT ALL

5. think

6. more?
ideas
clear?
links
mine?
info get it
clear
in
your
head

7. make a thinking thought web
Thought Web
2

8. work out your aim

9. the
point
Write your point on the
edge of your thought
web.

10. • key
information
• key ideas
• key
questions
choose

11. x
z
y
w
Mark the facts and ideas
you want to use on your
thought web.

12. THEN …