by LIS101 | Apr 7, 2019 | global warming, information malpractice, Readings, Research Skills, rubrics, Webpages, working with sources |
Posted on 27 November 2011 by John Cook at skepticalscience.com The Debunking Handbook, a guide to debunking misinformation, is now freely available to download. Although there is a great deal of psychological research on misinformation, there’s no summary of...
by LIS101 | Mar 19, 2019 | video content |
Feb 2, 2015 7:50 PM EDT A measles outbreak has reached 14 states and infected more than 100 people. The disease had been considered eradicated in the U.S., but parents’ skepticism about the safety and usefulness of vaccines in recent years has made room for measles to...
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 | Jul 18, 2017 | Blogs, Research Skills |
Your research needs will most often be determined by your assignment. How many sources will you need? Do they need to be scholarly, primary, or secondary? Should you use a newspaper or government source? A research task may or may not come with stipulations about...
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 | 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 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....