FACULTY OF INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
Diploma in Information Management
(IM110)
FOUNDATION FOR INFORMATION STUDIES
(IMD102)
Sources of Information
Prepared by:
Ron Ely Julian (2011354741)
Prepared for:
Madam Suriani Binti Jack
Date of submission:
14th December 2011
SOURCES OF
INFORMATION
By
Ron Ely Julian (2011354741)
Faculty of Information Management
Universiti Teknologi Mara Sarawak
Kampus Samarahan
December 2011
Acknowledgement
Firstly I would like to thank God for his blessing that made me able to finish the assignment and submit in on time. The special thank goes to our IMD102 lecturer, Madam Suriani Binti Jack for the guidance and the support she gave us truly help the progression and smoothness of this assignment. The co-operation is much indeed appreciated. My grateful thanks also go to my classmates who are also my friends, Gondu, Rheo, Ros, Elsa, Zura, Talia and Ika that gave me advices during the time I was doing this assignment. The enthusiasm and imagination from you guys during the past five weeks is very great indeed. The whole time we spent together really brought us to appreciate the true value of friendship and respect of each other.
Last but not least, Great deals appreciated go to the contribution of my faculty - Faculty of Information Management, which gave us this assignment in order to help build us to be a very dedicated students of University Teknologi Mara.
Ron Ely Julian
December 2011
Samarahan Campus, Sarawak
Abstract
The objective of this assignment is to discuss the four sources of information. The Source from people is very direct but it have the chance to be false because getting information directly from people means you are relying on their memories and memory gets blurry after a long time. Literature is strategic source of information, which it can be kept for a very long time in a form of things to pass the information to the next