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Info Lit 8: Types of Information

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Information

  • An umbrella term for all knowledge obtained from investigation, study, or instruction

- Data

  • Facts that can be analyzed or used in an effort to gain knowledge or make decisions

- Facts

  • Knowledge or information based on real occurrences.
  • Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed.

- Popular Sources of Information

  • Publications for entertaining or informing the general public (no specialist training required).

- Scholarly Sources of Information

  • Publications for specialists to give research and academic discussion.

- Primary Sources

  • Original, uninterpreted information

- Secondary Sources

  • Information that has been interpreted, analyzed or summarized

- Universal Resource Locator (URL)

  • A web address