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Info Skills Program

Information
Retrieval
Information Authenticity and Evaluation
Research
Planning
Digital Resources Presentation and workshops
Induction
Session
Paraphrasing and Summarizing
Referencing, Citation and Plagiarism
Contact
Us

Information Retrieval

Description

  • About identifying and locating material using various information sources specifically using the tools available for finding books and other reading material in the library, finding research articles in electronic databases and searching on the internet etc.

Learning Outcome
After completing this module participant will understand how to:

  • Describe the access tools available to you for finding information
  • Using library catalogue to find resources
  • Select library databases to find journals articles
  • Identify effective research techniques
  • Describe the characteristics of internet search engines
  • Discuss the nature of information found on the internet
  • Review and manage your search results

Who Should Attend

  • Students
  • Researchers
  • Newly appointed faculty

Information Authenticity and Evaluation

Description

  • About identifying the source that are reliable and appropriate for the academic or information needs

Learning Outcome
After completing this module participant will understand how to:

  • Identify why it is important to evaluate information
  • Identify criteria use for the evaluation of source of information
  • Apply evaluative criteria to information found across a range of publications type

Who Should Attend

  • Researchers
  • PHD and MS students

Research Planning

Description

  • About planning research so that appropriate information can be found to fulfill research needs

Learning Outcome
After completing this module participant will understand how to:

  • 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 assignments planning techniques
  • Construct effective search strategies
  • Identify potential source of information
  • Select appropriate sources of information

Who Should Attend

  • Researchers
  • PHD and MS students

Digital Resources Presentation and workshops

Description

  • About referencing and Plagiarism

Learning Outcome
After completing this module participant will understand how to:

  • Define academic fraud, plagiarism and research misconduct
  • Describe the use of plagiarism detection prevention software
  • Identify strategies for good academic note taking, acknowledging your sources
  • Describe techniques for managing and compiling reference lists and bibliography
  • Difference between bibliography and referencing
  • How to design and develop bibliography with easy tools

Who Should Attend

  • Researchers
  • PHD and MS students

Induction Session

Description

  • About the usage of library services and facilities

Learning Outcome
After completing this module participant will understand how to:

  • How to find the books, journals, newspaper and other reading material from the library catalogue
  • What kind of services are being offered by the library
  • What kind of facilities are being provided by the Library
  • Library Opening/Closing hours
  • Who is who in the library
  • Library general rules and regulations

Who Should Attend

  • New intake students

Paraphrasing and Summarizing

Description

  • Paraphrasing and summarizing is a way to smoothly integrate the ideas of someone else into your own research. When a writer paraphrases from a source, what he is actually doing is turning the original text into his own words. He's not adding his own opinion, and he's not using the original wording: he's "translating" the original text into his own language, to flow better with his own writing.

Learning Outcome
After completing this module participant will understand how to:

  • How to prepare yourself for dissertation/research work, report writing/essay etc.
  • Paraphrasing techniques from avoiding plagiarism
  • How to conclude your thoughts about the topic
  • Paraphrasing enables the users to redesign the essential information and ideas expressed by someone else,
  • How to summarized your thoughts in the research work

Who Should Attend

  • Researchers
  • PHD and MS Students

Referencing, Citation and Plagiarism

Description

  • Rapid advancement in information technologies has revolutionized the role of libraries. Libraries are redesigning services and information products to add value to their services and to satisfy the changing information needs of the user community. Information seekers are no longer satisfied with only printed materials. They want to supplement the printed information with more dynamic electronic resources.

Learning Outcome
After completing this module participant will understand how to:

  • Find thousands of e-journals in various electronic databases for their research purpose
  • Find thousands of full text e-books in CIIT E-Library module.
  • How to search in Free Online/Public Access Journals.
  • How to get maximum benefit from the digital resources.
  • How to get a VPN account

Who Should Attend

  • Researchers
  • Faculty Member
  • Students

Contact Us

Arslan Sheikh

  • In Charge
    Reference & Research Section
    Junaid Zaidi Library
    COMSATS University Islamabad
    Park Road, Islamabad - Pakistan
    Email: [email protected]
    Phone: +92-51-90495069
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