Information Literacy Resources - GTY 705 - Research by Subject at Miami University

Things that students often don't know

These assumptions can often be the difference between the success or failure of an assignment:

Foundation-Level Skills:

What is peer review
Boolean operators
When to use the catalog and when to use an article database
What is plariarism and how to aviod it
Why they need to cite
How to paraphrase
How to cite

Thematic Sequence level skills:

How to narrow or broaden a topic based upon search results
How to search around topic
Recognize bias in sources and use sources accordingly
Understand the relative value of different types of sources

Capstone Level

Citation Searching (bibliometric analysis)
Incorporation of primary sources in the correct manner
Able to incorporate information that is counter to their thesis

This is not to say that students in 400 level courses will all have mastery of the foundation and thematic level skills, but this breakdown can serve as a guideline for assignment creation and expectations.

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Info Lit Resources

Information Literacy Competencies
A rubric that addresses incorporating ACRL standards into the college curriculum.
Information Literacy Assignments
Web site from the University of North Carolina Ashville that talks about ways to create assignments that focus on information literacy.
Evaluation Document
A document that I use in my teaching that helps students evaluate various types of resources and authors.
Mathematics and Democracy: The Case for Quantitative Literacy
Good on-line volume edited by Lynn Arthur Steen that makes the case for the importance of numeracy as opposed to higher-level mathematics. The epilogue by Steen is especially useful.

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Plagiarism Resources

Below are some links about citation and plagarism.

Avoiding Plagarism
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab's tutorial for students about plagiarism.
APA Citation -- OWL
Purdue's guide to APA style and citation.
Google Scholar
If you suspect plagiarism, you can try searching the suspected passage into a web search engine and/or a full-text database. Google and Google Scholar are both good choices.

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