Module 1

• Students can get relevant information from different sources such as news reports, speeches, informative talks and panel discussions
• Information


  Facts provided or learned about something or someone
• Common methods of gathering information

  • Listening
  • Reading
  • Interviews
  • Questioning
  • Questionnaires
  • Observation
  • Study of existing reports
• News reports


  • Found in newspapers, televisions or radios
  • Aim to inform the readers of what is happening in the world around them
• Speech


  • Formal address or discourse delivered to an audience
• Informative talks


  • Educate the audience on a particular topic
  • Help the audience understand a subject better and to remember what they learned later
• Panel discussion


  • Live or virtual discussion about a specific topic amongst a selected group of panelists who share differing perspectives in front of a large audience
• Primary sources


  • Interview
  • Diary
• Secondary sources


  • Documentary film
  • Textbook
• The specific types of primary, secondary and tertiary information sources used when writing a paper depends upon the subject of the paper