General Education Program Learning Outcome II - Information Literacy

Standard Four: The information literate student, individually or as a member of a group, uses information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose. 

 1. Ask students to describe the following types of sources:

2. Assign students to identify the format of the sources they find for a given research project and articulate why the chosen formats are appropriate for the information need.

3. Ask students to transform information they have created in one format to another format, and to write a reflection on what they needed to consider as they went through the process.

Recommended Tutorial:  Information Literacy

•  Module 2: Sources

Tweets may be a valuable source of information for certain topics.

• True
• False

What is a reason that using a news story would be better than a scholarly source in an academic paper? (choose as many as you think apply)

• The scholarly community has not examined your topic.
• You don’t have enough time to find out if researchers have looked at your topic.
• You are examining the popular perception of a topic.
• There is a local event that you are using as an example within your research.

How might you share your original undergraduate research?

• At a conference
• On a department blog
• In a scholarly journal
• All of the above

Source: University of Cincinnati Libraries