INFORMATION AND RESEARCH SKILLS FOR OFFICE PROFESSIONALS

About this Course

This course is an overview of information resources and the skills required to develop a research effectively. Through lectures, hands-on, assignments, and other methods, students learn to understand the need to conduct a research by understanding the world of knowledge, know the variety of information sources available, how to locate and search the needed information and use all available resources, printed and online services to develop strategies in conducting a good research.

Course Learning Outcomes

1) CO1 Define the concept of information, their use and purpose in academic and other fields.
2) CO2 Describe the sources of information available and use it effectively in completing tasks.
3) CO3 Manipulate information and communication technology applications to get access to printed and online information to develop a good research.

Course Syllabus

+ Course Syllabus

1) 1. Overview of information
-Importance of information and knowledge
-Importance of knowledge to organizations
-Information literacy

2) 2. Sources of information
-People
-Organizations
-Information system
-Literature
-Categories of information

3) 3. Types of information
-Quantitative information
-Qualitative information
-Graphic information

4) 4. Organizing and searching information
-Online public access catalog
-Online database
-Search engines
-Classification schemes

5) 5. Bibliographic citations
-American Psychological Association(APA)
-Modern Language Association (MLA)

6) 6. Introduction to research
-Types of research

7) 7. Issues in research
-Plagiarism
-Research ethics

8) 8. Writing a research report
-Research writing in general
-Referencing
-Writing a bibliography
-Developing an outline

Frequently Asked Questions

Q1 : What are the objectives of learning this course?
A1 : 1. Define the concept of information, their use and purpose in academic and other fields. 2. Describe the sources of information available and use it effectively in completing tasks. 3. Manipulate information and communication technology applications to get access to printed and online information to develop a good research.