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  2. The Information (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Information is a 1995 novel by British writer Martin Amis. The plot involves two forty-year-old novelists, Gwyn Barry (successful) and Richard Tull (not so). Amis has asserted that both characters are based (if they can be regarded as based on anybody) on himself. [1] It is, says Amis, a book about "literary enmity". [1]

  3. Reading comprehension - Wikipedia

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    Each genre has its own characteristics for text structure that once understood helps the reader comprehend it. A story is composed of a plot, characters, setting, point of view, and theme. Informational books provide real-world knowledge for students and have unique features such as: headings, maps, vocabulary, and an index.

  4. Wikipedia:List of free online resources - Wikipedia

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    Google Books - Searchable archive of magazines and books (some full-text, including photograph captions and references to photographs from related articles and content). United States Library of Congress [4] - Searchable archive of historic photographs, maps, performing arts, newspapers.

  5. Education Resources Information Center - Wikipedia

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    The mission of ERIC is to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information for educators, researchers, and the general public. Education research and information are essential to improving teaching, learning, and educational decision-making.

  6. Information retrieval - Wikipedia

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    In the case of document retrieval, queries can be based on full-text or other content-based indexing. Information retrieval is the science [ 1 ] of searching for information in a document, searching for documents themselves, and also searching for the metadata that describes data, and for databases of texts, images or sounds.

  7. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood - Wikipedia

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    The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in March 2011, which covers the genesis of the current Information Age. It was on The New York Times best-seller list for three weeks following its debut.

  8. Source text - Wikipedia

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    The terms 'source text' and 'target text' are preferred over 'original' and 'translation' because they do not have the same positive vs. negative value judgment. Translation scholars including Eugene Nida and Peter Newmark have represented the different approaches to translation as falling broadly into source-text-oriented or target-text ...

  9. Information literacy - Wikipedia

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    The Association of College and Research Libraries defines information literacy as a "set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information, the understanding of how information is produced and valued and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning".