Working Collaboratively to Improve Students’ Application of Critical Thinking to Information Literacy Skills

Brenda Refaei University of Cincinnati ; Rita Kumar University of Cincinnati ; Stephena Harmony University of Cincinnati

Abstract

Students’ limited information literacy skills raise concerns among writing instructors and librarians alike. In order to improve students’ information literacy skills, a librarian and writing instructors at a two-year open-access college collaborated to design information literacy instruction and collected student work to evaluate its effectiveness with regard to students’ ability to find and evaluate sources. Our experience from our collaborative approach indicates that by using specifically designed instructional activities such as concept maps and research logs, students’ ability to think critically about their information literacy skills can be improved.

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Writing and Pedagogy
Published
2015-06-13
DOI
10.1558/wap.v7i1.17232
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