1. 7.  Strategize: Investigate and decide on appropriate sources (focus on web only      for this prototype)
2. 8.  Select: Conduct searches and mark potentially useful web sites (create      working bibliography)
3. 9.  Review: Read sources and evaluate the quality and relevance of each (refine      working bibliography)

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Purpose: Now that students have defined their search terms and thought about the types of information they need to find, they should think about how they will go about finding this information. Because ISIS-21 focuses on web-based sources, students should investigate the differences between directories, search engines and meta search engines.

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Purpose: Once students have completed their preliminary investigation, they should conduct their final online searches using the tools that provided the most useful information. They then select (or Mark) some promising sources. This requires that they copy and paste or type in bibliographic information for each source. ISIS uses these entries to generate a list of these sources (a working bibliography).

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Purpose: Student must review their list of potentially useful sources, evaluate each one and then select those that best meet their evaluation criteria.