This assignment asks students to compare and contrast a Wikipedia article and an article from a subject specific Encyclopedia owned by the library. It asks the students to evaluate each resource by assessing its Relevance, Authority, Date, Accuracy and Rationale. Evaluation using these five criteria is known as the RADAR framework. Although the wikipedia article in this assignment is from biology, it can be switched out for any discipline.
Assignments
Posted on June 17, 2015
Author: Jennifer Masunaga
Discipline: Biology, English, Health, Multidisciplinary
Information Literacy Concepts: Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4), Uses Information (ACRL 4, SCONUL 7, ANZIL 5, ANCIL 8&9)
Posted on June 13, 2015
Author: Susan Archambault
A research diary is a log of the steps and thought processes researchers go through as they conduct their research. A research diary gives students the opportunity to reflect on the research process as they discover more information about a topic.
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
Information Literacy Concepts: Defines Information Need (ACRL 1, SCONUL 1&2, ANZIL 1), Finds Information (ACRL 2, SCONUL 3&4, ANZIL 2&4, ANCIL 5), Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4), Searching as Strategic Exploration (Frame 6)
Adaptations: 0
Posted on June 11, 2015
Author: Alexander Justice
Introduces the ethical dimension of finding, using, and sharing images in the context of the undergraduate research assignment
Discipline: Art, Communication Studies, Computer Science, Film and TV, Political Science, Theology
Information Literacy Concepts: Ethics (ACRL 5, SCONUL 6, ANZIL 6, ANCIL 7), Information Has Value (Frame 3)
Posted on June 10, 2015
Author: Dean Scheibel
Students are asked to reflect on their experience writing a required “literature review” for the course through a first-person “comic.” The visual narrative format allows students to come to terms with their own experience of what was hard, easy, or confusing about the literature review process and express it in a creative way.
Discipline: Communication Studies
Information Literacy Concepts: Defines Information Need (ACRL 1, SCONUL 1&2, ANZIL 1), Finds Information (ACRL 2, SCONUL 3&4, ANZIL 2&4, ANCIL 5), Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4), Ethics (ACRL 5, SCONUL 6, ANZIL 6, ANCIL 7), Research as Inquiry (Frame 4), Scholarship as Conversation (Frame 5), Searching as Strategic Exploration (Frame 6)
Posted on June 9, 2015
Author: Susan Archambault
Students pick a topic related to Communication Studies (or another social science discipline) and then define the topic operationally by finding a way to measure it. They test out their instrument on a partner.
Discipline: Communication Studies, Multidisciplinary, Psychology, Sociology
Posted on June 4, 2015
Author: Alexander Justice
This assignment asks students to compare the dramatization of a historical event to the historical writing about the same event.
Discipline: Film and TV, History
Information Literacy Concepts: Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4), Scholarship as Conversation (Frame 5)
Posted on June 2, 2015
Author: Susan Archambault
What is it?
An annotation is a brief evaluative summary of a book, article, or other publication. A bibliography is a list of resources cited in a consistent style format (such as MLA). An annotated bibliography, then, is a list of cited sources with brief explanations centering around one topic or research question. The purpose is to help the reader of the bibliography understand the uses of each source and the relationships of one source to another.
Your Assignment:
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
Posted on May 8, 2015
Author: Lindsey McLean
The primary purpose of a literature review is to provide a rationale for your proposed research question(s). You need to locate your research question within the broader conversation of a particular discipline. A review of literature should present a synthesis of existing theory and research literature that argues for the usefulness of the research question.
Discipline: Multidisciplinary
Information Literacy Concepts: Defines Information Need (ACRL 1, SCONUL 1&2, ANZIL 1), Finds Information (ACRL 2, SCONUL 3&4, ANZIL 2&4, ANCIL 5), Evaluates (ACRL 3, SCONUL 5, ANZIL 3, ANCIL 4), Uses Information (ACRL 4, SCONUL 7, ANZIL 5, ANCIL 8&9), Ethics (ACRL 5, SCONUL 6, ANZIL 6, ANCIL 7), Research as Inquiry (Frame 4), Scholarship as Conversation (Frame 5)
Adaptations: 6