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Lesson Plan July 2, 2018

The Scholarly Conversation Project

Submitted by Angela Ecklund

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Short Description

Students will learn how serial publications are presented in databases and how to read them chronologically to determine trends over time using the MLA International Bibliography.

Learning Outcomes

Students will understand how serial publications are presented in research databases and how to read them chronologically, browse the MLA International Bibliography‘s indexing structures to perform an initial survey of a field of scholarly output, articulate the differences between a discipline-specific database and a general one, and gather evidence that may be used to draw conclusions about the ways that the “literary conversation” has changed over the last sixty years.

Information Literacy Concepts

Scholarship as Conversation (Frame 5)

Discipline

English

Participation Type

Individual
Group

Suggested Citation

Ecklund, Angela. "The Scholarly Conversation Project." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments). 2018. https://projectcora.org/lesson/scholarly-conversation-project
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