Information Literacy for Seneca Faculty: Research as Inquiry

Research is iterative and depends upon asking new questions whose answers may develop into additional questions or lines of inquiry. Learn more.

Key sentence: Novice learners begin to acquire strategic perspectives on inquiry and a greater repertoire of investigative methods.

Learning Objectives:
Learners who are developing their information literate abilities will be able to:

• formulate research questions based on information gaps or on reexamination of existing, possibly conflicting, information;
• determine an appropriate scope of the research question and identify key concepts;
• limit the scope of complex research by breaking complex questions into simple ones;
• examine found information and assess for gaps or weaknesses.