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This index has been created as an assignment for my Indexing and Abstracting subject, whilst studying the Advanced Diploma of Library and Information Services at Canberra Institute of Technology.

I chose the subject of Dyslexia as my youngest son is currently being assessed to see if he has this condition. As I have a love of reading, I feel very sad if he will not be able to share that love because reading is too much like hard work. Hopefully through a lot of persistance and practice, he will learn to read well one day. Reading is an essential life skill which is very important for the Information Industry.

After finding a broad range of information available on the world wide web, I set about locating the relevant terms and most significant words that would be used by people searching for information about this subject. After creating an extensive list of words and phrases, I then searched the [|APAIS] (Australian Public Affairs Information Service) thesaurus and the [|ATED] (Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors) for preferred terms. Through this process, I then found many //**see**// and //**see also**// references to help prepare the index.

The next step was to create a wikispace site with pages of information, internal links and external links to other websites. This turned out to be the most time consuming part of the exercise as I was continually revisiting the sites that I had previously found to decide which index terms to link up with which sites. I also decided to create a brief glossary of terms to explain some of the terminology which occurred frequently.

Initially I listed all the index terms alphabetically but as I worked through the index, I realised that some of the terms really needed to be together as they related to a similar topic. I then created a few major headings with their related terms underneath. Everthing that didn't fit into those major groupings, I listed alphabettically in the general index at the start. A few topics have been listed more than once as they relate to more than one topic.

Liz August 2009

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