INFORMATION

LITERACY
INFORMATION LITERACY
•it refers to the ability to
recognize when information
is needed and to locate,
evaluate, effectively use and
communicate information in
its various form.
ELEMENTS OF INFORMATION LITERACY
1. Information Needs
2. Sources of Information
3. Access to the Information
4. Evaluate information
5. Organize information
6. Communicate information
INFORMATION NEEDS
- What information do you need?

SOURCES OF INFORMATION
- Where will you get them?

ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION

- How will you access them?
EVALUATE INFORMATION
-How will you check the quality of
information?
ORGANIZE INFORMATION
-How will you organize and store them?

COMMUNICATE INFORMATION
-How will you create and communicate
them?
TERMINOLOGIES TO CONSIDER
WHILE GATHERING INFORMATION:
1. PLAGIARISM
2. COMMON KNOWLEDGE
3. INTERPRETATION
4. QUOTATION
5. PARAPHRASE
PLAGIARISM
- Using other people’s words and
ideas without clearly acknowledging
the source of the information
COMMON KNOWLEDGE
- are facts that can be found in
numerous places and are likely to be
widely known

Example:
Rodrigo Duterte is the current
President of the Republic of the
Philippines.
INTERPRETATION
- are ideas or opinions that can
only be a fact when a source or a
reference is available

Example: Michael Jordan is the

greatest basketball player ever to
have played the game.
QUOTATION
- using someone’s words directly

Example: According to John

Smith in The New York Times,
“37% of all children under the
age of 10 live below the poverty
line”.
PARAPHRASE
- Using someone’s ideas, but
rephrasing them in your own words

* *Although you will use your own

words, you must still acknowledge
the source of info.**
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