Developing information literacy skills : a guide to finding, evaluating, and citing sources /
Developing Information Literacy Skills provides guidance and practice in the skills needed to find and use valid and appropriate sources for a research project. Anyone who does academic research at any level can benefit from ways to improve their information literacy skills. This text has been struc...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Lesson 1: Research as Inquiry: Defining the scope of your research.
- Lesson 2: Inquiry as a path to exploration: Identifying key words in the conversation
- Lesson 3: Scholarship as conversation 1: Identifying possible directions for the conversation
- Lesson 4: Scholarship as conversation 2: Understanding the research paradigm and bias
- Lesson 5: Using databases to find sources
- Lesson 6: Reading with a purpose: The structure of research article
- Lesson 7: Authority is construction and contextual 1: Identifying source characteristics
- Lesson 8: Authority is constructed and contextual 2: Examining source characteristics and bias to determine appropriateness
- Appendix A. Information literacy skills and the research cycle
- Appendix B: Citing and using sources
- Appendix C: Lesson checklists.