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Lesson Plan December 10, 2018

Who’s an Authority? Recognizing Scholarly Sources in the Library

Submitted by Michelle Keba Knecht

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Adapted outline to describe an instruction session involving primary source literacy.

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Short Description

Are you finding reliable sources for your research papers and projects? Has your professor asked you to use scholarly sources? What is a scholarly source anyway? In this workshop, learn how to critically evaluate the information you find through books, articles, and websites. **This lesson plan was adapted from "Establishing and Applying Evaluation Criteria" p. 74 -78 in Teaching Information Literacy Threshold Concepts Lesson Plans for Librarians, edited by Bravender, McClure, and Schaub (2015).**

Learning Outcomes

After completing the library instruction session, students will be able to: • produce criteria for evaluating information sources in order to cultivate a skeptical stance and a self-awareness of their own biases and world views.

Information Literacy Concepts

Authority is Constructed / Contextual (Frame 1)

Participation Type

Group

Suggested Citation

Keba Knecht, Michelle. "Who’s an Authority? Recognizing Scholarly Sources in the Library." CORA (Community of Online Research Assignments). 2018. https://projectcora.org/lesson/whos-authority-recognizing-scholarly-sources-library
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