The document provides guidance on finding and evaluating information resources for student assignments. It instructs students to explore the resources available to them, choose a favorite, and prepare a short presentation introducing the resource, its useful features and limitations, and how it could be applied to their studies. The document also advises students to consider criteria like authority, relevance, intent, objectivity, and currency when evaluating information for an essay on robots from four provided sources in order to determine which is most applicable and least biased. Contact information for a librarian is provided for students needing additional help.

1. Finding information:
different resources
http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/your-study/library-and-it-support
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2. Today we will look at..
• Finding information
• Evaluating information

3. More to life than Google
• Explore the resources you have been given
• Choose your favourite
• Prepare a short presentation
• Include:
• What is it?
• Useful/interesting features
• Limitations
• How you could use this resource in your studies

4. Evaluating information
Imagine you are writing an essay on Robots
Have a look at the 4 items that you have been given and
consider the following:
• Which item is the most relevant to your essay?
• Which item would be no use?
• Which item has the most academic authority?
• Are any of the items biased?
• Which item is the most current?

5. • Authority
• Relevance
• Intent
• Objectivity
• Currency
Evaluating information

6. Need further help?
Your Librarian is:
Vanessa Hill v.hill@mdx.ac.uk