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Info Skills Road Trip: 2 - Define your topic: Getting Started

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Itinerary

At university you will find yourself faced with a number of different types of assignments.  The most common is an essay and it's important to know how to "tackle" it!

This stop talks about how to

  • Identify which parts of the task are things you can research
  • Figure out what kind of information you need
  • Choose where to look for that information

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