This guide will help students better understand the information literacy concepts underlying the research process. Information Literacy includes media literacy and text-based literacy.
"Communities of scholars, researchers, or professionals engage in sustained discourse with new insights and discoveries occurring over time as a result of varied perspectives and interpretations."
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Pashler, H., McDaniel, M., Rohrer, D., & Bjork, R. (2008;2009;). Learning styles: Concepts and evidence. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 9(3), 105-119. doi:10.1111/j.1539-6053.2009.01038.x
(These assignments are offered as inspirational prompts to be adapted by anyone using this guide.)
Locate a blog post, a newspaper article, a web news site article, and a scholarly article on the same topic.
Different scholarly communities have different conversations about similar topics. Have the class discuss how a political scientist might discuss voting behavior vs. how a historian might discuss voting behavior (for example).
Introduce students to peer review by asking them to write a paper, then allowing two students to anonymously peer-review that paper. Then discuss the process of peer review. What criticisms were unfair? What improved the paper? Did any review help you re-conceptualize your paper, or did they simply address spelling and grammatical issues?
Identify or compare and contrast the different scholarly perspectives on their topic.
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