by LIS101 | Nov 3, 2018 | Readings |
By Caroline Haskins Nov 1 2018, 11:19pm A report released this week by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative reveals that the removal of climate change information from the EPA website is set to be a long-term policy of the Trump administration (Read...
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 | Jan 25, 2018 | Assignments, Blogs, Lesson Plans |
Desired Outcomes Student recognizes the need to accurately record information about a source as a means of establishing credibility. Student recognizes that different kinds of authority produce different kinds of information. Student seeks out the author’s...
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 | Jan 26, 2017 | libguides, Readings |
Definitions and Explanations A primary source is an original object or document from a specific time or event under study. Primary sources include historical and legal documents, interviews, eyewitness accounts, results of experiments, survey data,...
by LIS101 | Nov 5, 2016 | Articles |
Fact-checkers and students approach websites differently By Sam Wineburg and Sarah McGrew November 1, 2016 Did Donald Trump support the Iraq War? Hillary Clinton says yes. He says no. Who’s right? In search of answers, many of us ask our kids to...
by LIS101 | Jun 18, 2016 | Assignments, Webpages |
The instruction librarians at John M. Pfau Library have listed useful information literacy assignments according to their library instruction outcomes. I especially like the assignments for Effective Searching, which offers a collaborative approach to keyword...
by LIS101 | Jun 17, 2016 | Readings, Research Skills |
An information artifact is anything through which people communicate, such as a text, an image, a piece of graphic design, or a video. By asking critical questions as you engage it, you can develop a deeper understanding of an artifact’s context, aim, and meaning. To...
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 | Jun 9, 2016 | Readings, Webpages |
Dr Biljana Scott’s article on framing an argument introduces the linguistic and rhetoric aspects of persuasion. The way in which we frame an issue largely determines how that issue will be understood and acted upon. By dissecting Obama’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech...
by LIS101 | May 29, 2016 | Research Skills |
Malpractice is defined as improper, illegal, or negligent activity. In the realm of research, here are some examples of information malpractice: Plagiarism It should go without saying that copying work that is not your own and/or using sources without...
by LIS101 | May 23, 2016 | Articles |
Leon Neyfakh writes: Late last year, Russian newspapers reported what would have qualified as a stunning piece of news almost anywhere else: The chairman of the country’s largest parliamentary body had been exposed as a plagiarist. Sergei Naryshkin, the former chief...
by LIS101 | May 21, 2016 | Webpages |
Scholarly communication is the process of academics, scholars and researchers sharing and publishing their research findings so that they are available to the wider academic community and beyond. Traditionally scholarly communication has occurred in the formal...
by LIS101 | May 15, 2016 | Assignments |
Introduction The location of the most useful information sometimes depends on how deeply you need to understand your subject. Different kinds of information sources are published at different intervals and have varying degrees of depth. This exercise presents basic...
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 | 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....