| Introduction: Why thinking skills matter |
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| Eight essential thinking skills for successful enquiry answering |
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1 What do they really want?: Using your analytical thinking skills to understand the question |
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Avoiding misunderstandings |
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Asking the right questions |
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Does all this really work? |
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Finding out how long you've got |
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Coming next -- when the enquirer's not there |
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2 Why remote enquiry handling is different: Anticipating problems by thinking empathetically |
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Can't see, can't hear -- the risk of misunderstanding, even offence |
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Keeping your remote enquirer on-side |
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Coming next -- avoiding panic, thinking on your feet |
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3 Getting started: Dealing with the panic by thinking imaginatively |
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Imagining the final answer |
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Choosing the best type of source and delivery medium |
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Does all this really work? |
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Identifying actual sources |
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Coming next -- smarter searching |
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4 Smarter searching: Developing efficient search strategies by thinking systematically |
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Who needs to be able to search smarter? |
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Working out your search strategy |
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Making the Most of Indexes |
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Making sure that what you find is reliable |
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Coming next -- even more things that can go wrong |
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5 Help! Everything's going wrong: Using lateral thinking to get out of difficulties |
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Vital versus urgent tasks |
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Coming next -- adding value |
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6 Success! Now let's add some value: Using your creative thinking skills to present your answer well |
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Quality-checking your answer |
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Presenting your answer -- orally |
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Presenting your answer -- in writing |
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Copyright, licensing, ethics |
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Has the answer arrived -- and does the enquirer like it? |
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Sign-off: what can we learn from this enquiry? |
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Coming next -- adding even more value |
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7 Don't just give me another reading list!: Using critical thinking skills to add further value to your answer |
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Making your search results manipulate |
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Selecting, rejecting, prioritizing |
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Strategic reading -- finding the best bits of each document |
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Capturing the content for your report |
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Now you're ready to write! |
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Making sure your work gets read and valued |
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Conning next -- choosing your toolkit |
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8 Choosing your toolkit: Using your predictive thinking skills to determine the resources you'll need |
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Making best use of your Time, Intellect and Money |
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Keeping track of your enquiries |
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Discovering information in your own resources (and beyond) |
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164 | (1) |
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Choosing and using the right search engine |
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Adding value to your search results |
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Your goal: successful enquiry answering -- every time |
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