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SLM 621: Citations as Seeds and Getting Organized with Google Sheets In a session prepared for SLM 621 students, tips on how to search library databases is shared along with the activity "Citations as Seeds" to show students how to use the references section on an article to find related articles. -
Center for Teaching Excellence Presentations: Information Literacy Strategies to Support Students in the Classroom This two part presentation with through the Center for Teaching Excellence, introduces faculty and staff to information literacy and why it is important to help students be more critical consumers of information. The presentations include a demonstration of learning activities and research assignment ideas for participants to use in their classrooms. -
Planning Checklist for Research Assignments This checklist is intended to help plan effective research assignments for students. It includes suggestions on assignment requirements, research guidance, and support ideas to include in an assignment. -
Anatomy of a Scholarly Article This lesson presented on a Google Site, works with students on how to break down the scholarly article into manageable parts. Students are provided techniques on how to read a scholarly such as looking first at the abstract, introduction, and conclusion to discover more about the article before diving in further. -
Lateral Reading Workshop and Online Activity Included is a PowerPoint presentation to do an in-class activity with students on lateral reading as well as an online activity for distance learning students. The following link leads to the online activity: -
Developing Keywords to Search After students do the freewrite in the first question, questions 2 and 3 are then modeled on a large whiteboard with an example research question. After modeling how to break down a research question into major concepts and coming up with synonyms for each concept, students are asked to work independently on this. After a few minutes students can trade worksheets with a partner and add on to that students list of keywords or students can simply recall what they wrote down with feedback from the library instructor. Students use this worksheet to help them search for relevant articles on their topics.