Abstract:
The average undergraduate spends a greater part of his studentship in acquiring, processing and disseminating information in an attempt to come to terms with knowledge development in his/her area of discipline. In order to do this adequately, the student has to sift through a large quantity of sources that is related to his discipline, in general, and his research topic, in particular. Attempts to handle the volume of available research literature, especially, in the digital age, have also created another set of parameters that the undergraduate has to contain with. This paper examines the impact of the two scenarios above on the ability of the student to access information relevant to his topic effectively. The essence of this paper is to outline the importance of developing a strong literature search culture in the undergraduate as well as to alert other researchers on the need to regularly upgrade his retrieval expertise for maximum control of information in his discipline in this information age.
