Information Literacy

Combine

An information literate person adds valid recovered information to the existing internal (own learning and experience) or external (eg. file system, database or other shared information pool) knowledge base.

Have you learned something new and useful from your search? Blend this with what you knew before searching.

Add valid recovered information to the existing knowledge base.

Information literacy cycle

Getting help with combining

How to synthesise
A tutorial from RMIT University on the steps to follow to combine information from different sources.

Big6 Stage 5: Synthesis of Information
Synthesis, is the point at which everything is brought together. Notes, thoughts, facts, research, outlines, ideas, scraps of paper, and observations are tied together into a finished product, which could take any number of forms. An article on synthesising information, from the Big6.

Organise and Synthesise Information
A series of information competency tutorials from The City University of New York, this one focuses on combining information with what was previously known.