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7. Discuss the strategies you can use to find information about the topic you
selected. Look at the example.

When I look for information in printed sources, I
check the table of contents first. session 3

What I do is browse through the book and look at the images. If I find

Strategies one about the topic I chose, I read that page. Sometimes the table
to look for of contents doesn’t include all the information that is in the book.
information

That’s a great idea, but what do you do if there
are no images?

If there are none, I read the titles of the sections
and chapters. Information sources and general meaning

browse (v.):
hojear, revisar
IT footnote (n.):
nota al pie

On a website, use the shortcut Ctrl + F, or Cmd + F, to look for specific words on the webpage.
You can use the words from the questions you wrote as keywords.

8. Gather the printed sources you selected.

• Identify the components used in each one to organize the information.
• Make a chart in your notebook to record which components are used in each

source. Look at the example.
Example:

Comparative chart

Magazine
Book about
Components human rights ONU’s website about human
rights

Table of contents ✓ ✓ ✓

Footnotes ✓ ✘ ✘

Appendix ✓ ✘ ✘

Bibliography ✓ ✓ ✓

Glossary ✓ ✘ ✘

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