Lessons related to English 151
(View Complete Item Description)An all-encompassing guide to doing research and using the CSI Library. Topics include using databases, bibliographies, and citations.
Material Type: Full Course, Student Guide, Tutorial
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Choose Your Own Adventure
(View Complete Item Description)Welcome to the Lehman College Library's Choose Your Own Adventure game! In this game you will need to find some important information for a friend in need. Along the way you will: Learn about the library and some of its services, Get acquainted with the library's website and resources, Be introduced to the principles of critical thinking and evaluating information.
Material Type: Game
Crafting a Research Question
(View Complete Item Description)This activity is designed to help students formulate questions for research based on their own observations and perspective in order to encourage curiosity and authentic inquiry.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
Creating a Research Question and Formulating Keywords
(View Complete Item Description)This activity emphasizes why students need to formulate a research question in order to create effective keywords. This activity also helps students recognize that they need to use different types of searching language in order to retrieve relevant results and that research is an iterative process. Note: Use this lesson when students still need to formulate a research question.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
Cut The CRAAP SIFT the Evidence, Madeline Ruggiero.pptx
(View Complete Item Description)This was a slide presentation I gave last Fall at a conference at the Grad center. I am oresenting a method of evaluating online sources by using lateral reading.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
MLA 9th ed. Citation Guide: A Reliable Data Trail for Future Researchers
(View Complete Item Description)This color coded guide was inspired by the citation guides from the Valencia College, a community college in Florida, website.
Material Type: Student Guide
Using Wikipedia in information literacy instruction: Tips for developing research skills
(View Complete Item Description)This article talks about using Wikipedia as a starting point in their research for background information, to help students narrow topics, find keywords, and the usfefulness of the endnotes at the bottom of a Wiki page.
Material Type: Reading
Defining a Topic
(View Complete Item Description)According to Project Information Literacy, defining and narrowing a topic is the most difficult step for beginning undergraduate researchers. This concept mapping activity is designed to reinforce the idea that students are creating a paper/project really entails engaging in a scholarly conversation.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
Topic Selection
(View Complete Item Description)Picking a Topic or Research Question IS ACTUAL RESEARCH and part of the research process. When you first pick a research topic, it isn’t set in stone. It’s just a general idea of something that interest you, that you will test with some exploratory research. If you like the results you are finding and it seems to provide answers to the questions you are trying to answer in your paper, then it looks like you can continue to find additional sources and start your paper. HOWEVER, if you are finding very limited results or too big a range of results, then now is the time to tweak your topic choice or even change it completely. This LibGuide will assist you through the 'Topic' selection process.
Material Type: Student Guide, Tutorial
Creating Keywords from a Research Question
(View Complete Item Description)This activity helps students recognize that they need to use different types of searching language in order to retrieve relevant results and to emphasize that research is an iterative process. Note: Use when students have already formulated a research question and are about to begin searching for information on their topic.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Lesson Plan
Handouts/Visual Tools
(View Complete Item Description)A collection of handouts ranging from the information cycle, to CARDIO criteria, to concept mapping.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Student Guide, Tutorial