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InfoLit for Study and Career

Discover, evaluate, and connect to succeed in university study and future career.

Assess Ideas to Generate Fresh Perspectives

Everyone understands the importance of evaluating information. The act of evaluation ensures that you are working with the most appropriate information for optimal results.

However, did you know that the ability to evaluate information at the university level is so crucial that it can impact your career and entire life?

Learning goals
By the end of this section, you should be able to:

1.    Assess the relevance of information for a specific task
2.    Choose the most suitable information for a task
3.    Evaluate the authority of information for a task (considering the level of authority)