Step

Questions

Defining

What do I want to find out?

What is my purpose?

Why do I need to find this out?

What are key words/ideas of the task?

What do I need to do?

Locating

Where can I find information?

What do I already know?

What do I still need to find out?

What sources and equipment can I use?

Selecting

What information do I really need to use?

What information can I leave out?

How relevant is the information I have found?

How credible is the information I have found?

How will I record the information I need?

Organising

How can I best use this information?

Have I enough information for my purpose?

Do I need to use all this information?

How can I best combine information from different sources?

Presenting

How can I present this information?

What will I do with this information?

With whom will I share this information?

Assessing

What did I learn from this?

Did I fulfil my purpose?

How did I go – with each step of the information process?

How did I go – presenting this information?

Where do I go from here?