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Permalink Reply by madupalli saida on July 8, 2012 at 17:53

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Permalink Reply by Remya Samuel on July 8, 2012 at 19:01

You are right sir..
As per the documents Kulthau has recognized different stages like initation, exploration etc.. As majority of us had selected either Ellis or Wilson .. I have also selected Wilson.

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Permalink Reply by Kumara C S on July 8, 2012 at 20:57

Dear friend,

above mentioned doubt the answer would be "A" "Ellis model"

for clarification see below link

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Permalink Reply by Kumara C S on July 8, 2012 at 21:01

Ellis model
We will discuss Ellis's (1989; Ellis, et al., 1993) and Ingwersen's (1996) frameworks. These are used and discussed here as examples only and we make no claims about their merits with respect to the research tasks for which they were originally intended.

Ellis's elaboration of the different behaviours involved in information seeking consists of six features. Ellis makes no claims to the effect that the different behaviours constitute a single set of stages; indeed, he uses the term 'features' rather than 'stages'. These features are named and defined below:

Starting: the means employed by the user to begin seeking information, for example, asking some knowledgeable colleague;
Chaining: following footnotes and citations in known material or 'forward' chaining from known items through citation indexes;
Browsing: 'semi-directed or semi-structured searching' (Ellis, 1989: 187);
Differentiating: using known differences in information sources as a way of filtering the amount of information obtained;
Monitoring: keeping up-to-date or current awareness searching;
Extracting: selectively identifying relevant material in an information source;
Verifying: checking the accuracy of information;
Ending: which may be defined as 'tying up loose ends' through a final search.

The strength of Ellis's model is that it is based on empirical research and has been tested in subsequent studies, most recently in the context of an engineering company (Ellis & Haugan, 1997).

Of the features, Ellis (1989: 178) notes that, '...the detailed interrelation or interaction of the features in any individual information seeking pattern will depend on the unique circumstances of the information seeking activities of the person concerned at that particular point in time'. Wilson (1999) proposes how these features may relate to each other temporally, providing a partial order; see Figure 1.
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Permalink Reply by Kumara C S on July 8, 2012 at 21:02

Wilson Model

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Permalink Reply by Kumara C S on July 8, 2012 at 21:02

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