Literacy Guide Population:
Adult Learners
Introduction:
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What is a Literacy Guide?
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Why it is beneficial to you?
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How it works?
Finding
Information:
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What are you looking for?
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Search Options:
o
Library sources
o
Research guides
o
Research strategies
o
Video and multi-media
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Types of Information:
o
Books
o
Research articles
o
Scholarly Journals vs. magazines
o
Google Scholar
o
Web searching
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Examples – situations
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Practice Run – (a couple of questions where you
practice searching for information)
Now you have the information – what
next?
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How to evaluate?
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What bias is it written from?
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Who is the source – are they credible?
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Identifying the author’s viewpoints
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Practice Run – (a couple of papers where you
practice identifying the bias or viewpoint written from)
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Use Evaluating Web Information Worksheet (see
exhibit 1)
Ethical Considerations
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What privacy issues will you run into?
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Key points on copyright
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How to acknowledge authorship – various styles:
APA,MLA
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Basics of citing your work
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Examples of citations
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References to manuals of citations
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Practice citations – (have a couple of examples
participants need to work through with correct answer so they can check for
understanding)
Putting it altogether
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Share an example that shows the process:
o
Basic question
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Where I looked?
o
What I found?
o
Determine validity and question bias or
viewpoint
o
Citing this work
Exhibit 1 can be
found in the following link: http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/544/27922/Webevalorksheet2010.pdf
Reference:
Miller, J. (2013). Teach library research in your own classroom. Retrieved 12/1/2013 from: http://library.sunyacc.edu/content.php?pid=43630&sid=322448
Miller, J. (2013). Web searching: Tips, evaluation, more. Retrieved 12/1/2013 from: http://library.sunyacc.edu/content.php?pid=42604&sid=313722
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