Literature

What is Information?

• it is defined as the ==data that is used by people to make sense of the world.==
• it can be thought of as the resolution of uncertainty.

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Why do people create information?

• to inform
• to educate
• to entertain
• to influence
• self fulfilment
• personal goal

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Why do people need information?

• to have knowledge
• to have skills in literacy
• to motivate or level up the mood
• physical disabilities
• intellectual abilities

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FACTORS IN INFORMATION USE:

1. Instrumental or used to do something tangible to acquire as a skill to reach a goal.
2. Cognitive: to generate ideas.
3. Affective: used information to feel supported, to derive pleasure, or to develop and maintain personal or social relationship.
4. Political/Economical: to acquire ideas relating to the government or public affairs of the country.
5. Social: it is an expectations or social norms.
6. Contextual: physical environment, work roles or way of life.

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What is the role of information literacy?

• information literacy is ==a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognize when information is needed== and have ==the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.==
• Information Literate: it is a person who ^^has a wide range of skills or abilities to make efficient and effective use of information sources^^.

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What are the Barriers in Information use?

• Personal
• not knowing what information is needed or available.
• Do not know what questions to ask
• Do not know where to look for the information
• Do not know the sources exists
• the information needed may not exist
• a person may lack communication skills
• a person may be discouraged by the sources that they approach
• information scatted
• lack of trust in information sources.

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How can we make information useful?

• It must be ideally accurate, precise, complete, reliable, communicated properly, timely, detailed, understandable, and consistent.

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TEXTUAL AIDS

These are %%educational instruments%%, and could be written texts, or printed texts and other ways of emphasizing the essential phrases, thoughts, graphs, and images.

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TYPES OF TEXTUAL AIDS:

1. Highlighted words and phrases

   It made visibly different from the rest of the text. It is intended to draw the reader’s attention to them.

2. Italicized Words and Phrases

   A style of writing where the characters are slated upward to the right.

3. illustrations

   It is a decoration interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept, or process.

4. Linear Text

   It focuses on the arrangement of the words both grammatically and stylistically.

5. Transitional devices/ Cohesive words

   Words or phrases that help carry a thought from one sentences to another.

6. Non-Linear Text

   Readers do not have to go through the text in a sequential manner in order to make sense of the text.

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• Different kinds of charts and graphs

  1. Line Graph: Displays the information as a series of data points connected by the line segments.
  2. Bar Graph: Comparing for larger changes or differences in a data.
  3. Histogram: Similar to bar chart, but instead of comparing it represents how data is distributed.
  4. Pie Graph: shows the breakdown of items in a set of percentages.
  5. Pictograph: a picture or image that represents an idea.
  6. Venn Diagram: Visual depiction of similarities and differences between two or more different items.
  7. Graphic Organizer: Known as “Knowledge map”
  8. Table: An arrangement of data in rows and columns or possibly more complex structure.

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