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Information Literacy - Basic Research Skills
This text address developing transferable skills in students, which allows them to take what they learn here and apply it to any information need in any environment: academia, careers, life-long learning, bar bets, or what have you. It is not an attempt to be a comprehensive book on information literacy, but rather a brief overview.
- Author
- Carol M. Withers with Bruce Johnson & Nathan Martin
- Publisher
- San Diego City College Library
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Language
- EN
Contents· 32 sections
- 01: Research and the Scholarly Conversation
- 1.01: Two kinds of research- original and library
- 1.02: Scholarly Conversation
- 02: Understanding Information
- 2.01: Flow of Information
- 2.02: Evaluation of information- standard approaches at the sentence level confirmation bias
- 2.03: Primary Secondary and Tertiary Sources
- 2.04: Information in Scholarly and Popular Sources
- 2.05: Current and Contemporary Sources
- 03: Keeping It Legal
- 3.01: Copyright
- 3.02: Fair Use
- 3.03: Plagiarism
- 3.04: Citing and Citations
- 04: Creating Your Own Resource List for Your Topic
- 05: Picking a Topic and Developing It
- 5.01: Picking a topic
- 5.02: Developing questions about your topic
- 06: Identifying a Variety of Words to Use and Creating Search Strategies
- 6.01: Identifying key concepts and alternative terms to type in
- 6.02: Combining terms effectively- Boolean phrase searching and proximity searching
- 6.03: Choosing a database
- 6.04: Choosing fields
- 6.05: Topic Searching
- 6.06: Limits
- 6.07: Known Item Searching
- 6.08: Brief Review of Creating Searches
- 07: Finding Books and Articles In Library Databases
- 7.01: Finding Books
- 7.02: Finding Articles - a Two-Step Process
- 08: Searching the Web
- 09: Wrapping It Up