Information Literacy - Basic Research Skills

by Carol M. Withers with Bruce Johnson & Nathan Martin

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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.

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Publisher
San Diego City College Library
Subjects
Humanities
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Introduction for Instructors
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Introduction for Students
  7. Licensing
  8. 1: Research and the Scholarly Conversation
  9. 1.1: Two kinds of research- original and library
  10. 1.2: Scholarly Conversation
  11. 2: Understanding Information
  12. 2.1: Flow of Information
  13. 2.2: Evaluation of information- standard approaches, at the sentence level, confirmation bias
  14. 2.3: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources
  15. 2.4: Information in Scholarly and Popular Sources
  16. 2.5: Current and Contemporary Sources
  17. 3: Keeping It Legal
  18. 3.1: Copyright
  19. 3.2: Fair Use
  20. 3.3: Plagiarism
  21. 3.4: Citing and Citations
  22. 4: Creating Your Own Resource List for Your Topic
  23. 5: Picking a Topic and Developing It
  24. 5.1: Picking a topic
  25. 5.2: Developing questions about your topic
  26. 6: Identifying a Variety of Words to Use and Creating Search Strategies
  27. 6.1: Identifying key concepts and alternative terms to type in
  28. 6.2: Combining terms effectively- Boolean, phrase searching and proximity searching
  29. 6.3: Choosing a database
  30. 6.4: Choosing fields
  31. 6.5: Topic Searching
  32. 6.6: Limits
  33. 6.7: Known Item Searching
  34. 6.8: Brief Review of Creating Searches
  35. 7: Finding Books and Articles In Library Databases
  36. 7.1: Finding Books
  37. 7.2: Finding Articles - a Two-Step Process
  38. 8: Searching the Web
  39. 9: Wrapping It Up
  40. Back Matter
  41. Index
  42. Glossary
  43. Detailed Licensing
  44. Glossary
  45. References Cited