This assignment guides students through the process of researching and applying for a grant, requiring them to access, evaluate and use information effectively.
This assignment explores perspective and evaluation of information by asking students to research a medical condition from a patient’s perspective and then consider it from the perspectives of medical professionals.
This activity helps students critically evaluate information they find on the web and consider how different sources work in different contexts.
This assignment helps students select the most appropriate search terms, introduces the concept of “narrowing” searches and helps students evaluate comparative results with a variety of terms.
In this activity, students learn to find and evaluate Internet sites for use in academic projects.
In this assignment, students are asked to locate three articles about a controversial issue. The articles must be from different types of sources (newspaper, magazine, scholarly journal, etc.). The students then are asked to compare the sources in terms of the intended audience, the authors’ credentials, bias, depth of coverage, point of view, etc.
In this assignment, students research and create an annotated bibliography on a topic relevant to your course. This requires students to find articles, analyze them and cite them according to established citation conventions.
This assignment asks students to practice generating descriptors and “tagging” using web-based social bookmarking software.
In this assignment, students create their own database of resources.
This assignment gives students the opportunity to conduct research and present their findings succinctly in a poster session format.
This assignment highlights the subjective nature of editorial content and allows students to practice finding facts to back up opinions.
This assignment enables students to compare opposite sides of a controversial issue and consider the validiy of different information sources. Students are asked to locate articles with different viewpoints and compare them using criteria such as authors’ credentials, intended audience, evidence used to support arguments, and more.
This assignment acquaints students with the similarities and differences in library databases, helping them learn to select the most appropriate database for their information need.
This assignment helps students brainstorm good search terms, synonyms, and actual searches they would enter into a search box.
This assignment helps students brainstorm and refine their research topics.