Information Literacy

20 minutes

Objective: Students will be able to identify what constitutes plagiarism in their academic work and how to avoid the common causes of plagiarism when they use:

20 minutes

Objective: Students will be able to identify what constitutes plagiarism in their academic work and how to avoid the common causes of plagiarism when they use:

direct quotes,
paraphrased text,
or summarized text.

30 minutes
Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate how to apply APA (6th edition) references and parenthetical citations for:

• books,
• articles from print journals,
• articles from electronic journals, and
• information found on the Web.

30 minutes
Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate how to apply MLA (7th edition) references and parenthetical citations for:

• books,
• articles from print journals,
• articles from electronic journals, and
• information found on the Web.

Conducting a Literature Review

30 minutes
Objective: Students will be able to analyze the steps in conducting a comprehensive literature review.

Creating a Search Strategy

20 minutes
Objective: Students will be able to plan a search strategy using subject databases including basic broadening and narrowing techniques, such as:

• identifying keyword terms,
• using AND and OR,
• and using synonyms and related terms.

Evaluating Web Sites

20 minutes
Objective: Students will be able to evaluate the reliability of Web sites based on five criteria:

• authority,
• accuracy,
• objectivity,
• coverage, and
• currency.

Focusing an Information Search

30 minutes
Objective: Using advanced search strategies in a library database, students will be able to demontrate how to focus an information search by applying strategies that include:

• exact phrases,
• subject terms,
• combining subject terms and keyword terms,
• and truncation.

Managing References Using RefWorks

30 minutes
Objective: Students will be able to manage references for academic assignments using RefWorks.

Maximizing Google Scholar Searches

30 minutes
Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate how to maximize Google Scholar searches using:

• Scholar Preferences,
• Advanced Scholar Search options, and
• Google Scholar search results links.

Moving Into Discipline Specific Research

30 minutes
Objective:  Students will be able to evaluate effective strategies for locating topic-related, academic sources using article citations and research tools such as library databases and Google Scholar.

Recognizing a Research Study

30 minutes
Objective: Students will be able to classify an original research study using the following criteria:

• structure of a study,
• quality of the references,
• author’s credentials.
• publishing or distribution status,
• and sponsoring organization.

Selecting Articles for Academic Assignments

30 minutes
Objective: Students will examine four characteristics relating to popular and scholarly articles to determine which type of article is suitable for a given academic assignment.

Understanding the Information Cycle

30 minutes
Objective: Given a research assignment and topic, students will be able to select the appropriate type of information source based on knowledge of the information cycle.