by LIS101 | Oct 17, 2017 | Readings, Video Content and Multimedia |
This short presentation touches on historiography, narratives, tradition, memes, and culture and speculates about the impact of culture on information literacy. Culture and Information PDF Culture and...
by LIS101 | Sep 19, 2018 | lecture notes, Lesson Plans, Readings |
This overview of the materials in this class discusses generally: Why we see things differently. Why we don’t like to be wrong. Why it is dangerous to question authority. Where we got the letter A. The morbidity of Puritan children’s books. How culture and...
by LIS101 | Aug 22, 2018 | Assignments, Research Skills |
Please review the sources linked below and compose both an MLA and an APA citation for each. You can review MLA and APA citation styles using the library’s research guides. 1. A website: The EPA Eliminates a Strong Safeguard Against Industrial Air Pollution MLA:...
by LIS101 | Jul 19, 2018 | Interviews, Readings |
Today LIS101 interviews University of Nebraska English professor and gun control advocate Amanda Gailey. This interview sheds some light on the different factors that impact the quality of the information that informs this public debate, including culture, free...
by LIS101 | Aug 18, 2017 | libguides, Readings, Research Skills |
Many of us have been taught that in order to start a research paper we need a thesis statement, and while it is true that every research paper needs a thesis, coming up with the thesis statement first is not necessarily a good way to start. Simply stated, a thesis...
by LIS101 | Jun 15, 2017 | Assignments |
Guided Research Scavenger Hunt – Digging Deeper Into a Pop-Culture Phenomenon Use books, credible internet resources, and/or journal articles to answer the following questions about Cesar Millan. Cite your source(s) for each answer using both MLA and APA. The steps...
by LIS101 | Nov 19, 2016 | Research Skills |
A skilled writer may defy any of these ethical considerations without his audience being able to spot it. Below are listed additional caveats that may not necessarily mean that a source is inaccurate, irrelevant, or otherwise unusable, but which should definitely...
by LIS101 | Jun 9, 2016 | Readings, Uncategorized |
In a perfect world, facts and information would be presented objectively so that people could make rational, educated decisions. Unfortunately, information is rarely bestowed in such a pristine manner. Instead, it is often presented in the form of argumentation, in...
by LIS101 | Feb 10, 2016 |
Objectives and Outcomes Objectives and Outcomes This section contains all of the readings, walk-throughs, and tutorials you will need to complete a research paper or related project. After completing the steps in this tutorial, you will be able to: recognize when you...
by LIS101 | Feb 10, 2016 |
Module 6:Organizing Information Introduction Since the dawn of the information age, people have been concerned about the problem of Information Overload: when people have access and exposure to so much information that they can no longer make good decisions. This...
by LIS101 | Feb 10, 2016 |
Module 3: Politics and the Legal Landscape of Information in the United States Introduction In the early United States partisan newspaper presses and their owners were drivers of the political debate. As the two major American political parties established themselves,...
by LIS101 | Jan 19, 2016 |
Module 4: The Production of Information Introduction The complex information ecosystem–in which public and private sources battle for control of policy, in which marketers and publishers compete for the public’s attention, in which popular press...
by LIS101 | Jan 18, 2016 |
Module 2: The Consumption of Information Introduction No doubt most people are familiar with the friend who, no matter how much evidence is presented, will find a way to argue against it. If the debate were a football field, it would have the curious feature of moving...
by LIS101 | Jan 18, 2016 |
Module 1: A Very Brief History of Information Introduction The complex information ecosystem in which we find ourselves–in which public and private sources battle for control of policy, in which marketers and publishers compete for our attention, in which...
by LIS101 | Jan 11, 2016 |
Module 5: Information Online Introduction Since the dawn of the information age, people have been concerned about information overload, which is the stress people feel when they are exposed to so much information that it becomes impossible to think about it clearly....