Archive for the tag "research assignments"
Whither the Research Paper?
I teach a 3-credit information literacy course at my college, and the research paper I assign is a large portion of students’ grade for the class. The assignment is divided into multiple scaffolds: a research proposal, an annotated bibliography, a first draft (which includes one class session spent peer reviewing), and the final paper. Students [...]
Posted: 18 February, 2011 in Information Literacy, Plagiarism, Student Issues, Teaching.
Tags: research assignments, research paper
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Reading Between the Assignment’s Lines
Project Information Literacy has a new study out that complements their earlier work. In the new study, PIL researchers collected and examined research assignment prompts to see how they guide students toward good sources, and discovered that … they don’t. That is, the assignments tend to be fairly specific about the surface features of what [...]
Posted: 13 July, 2010 in Faculty, Information Literacy.
Tags: Project Information Literacy, research assignments
Comments: 3