Intro to Academic Research

Information Timeline

Before starting your research it is important to understand what types of information sources will be the most useful. Depending on your topic you may need current news coverage, articles from scholarly journals and magazines, books, information from other sources, or a combination of all of these resources. The information timeline, or information life cycle, can help you understand the process of how information is created and how it evolves over time. This will help you gain a better understanding about what types of sources will have the information you need for your research. It will also aid you in evaluating the content and accuracy of your sources.

Video Resources

1. An Event Occurs :
When an event occurs, the information about that event progresses through an information timeline, or cycle, that ranges from reporting of the facts to the publication of scholarly literature.

Navigate around to explore the different stages of the information timeline.