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
All resources in LILAC
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
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
Finding Data
(View Complete Item Description)Find data to inform your stories, discover the types of datasets available in a geographic beat (no matter where), and find ideas for stories in data.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Faculty Guide
(View Complete Item Description)Welcome to our faculty resource page. We often assign research projects but don’t always have the time to devote to these skills in class. This tutorial is designed to help both faculty and students through the process, from developing a research question, to finding articles, to using articles in a research project. We encourage you to assign sections of this tutorial throughout the semester. The tutorial includes several worksheets that you may collect or use as a basis of discussion in class. You will also find activities designed for faculty to plan a scaffolded research project, help students develop topics, and teach key information literacy skills. Contains: Annotated Bibliography Activity, How to Use a Source: The BEAM Method, Helping Students Build Better Research Questions, The Stases as Research Method, Scaffold Research Calendar (guide students' the research process), Zotero access, Librarian Tips on Good Research Assignments.
Material Type: Reference, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Information Literacy Toolkit
(View Complete Item Description)ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, LILIAC/CUNY Information Literacy Standards for CUNY Students
Material Type: Reference
Faculty Toolkit Activities
(View Complete Item Description)The process of research is often more complex than students anticipate. Part of helping them succeed is making visible the steps in the research process and helping students recognize that each step will require them to employ different skills. This section of the Faculty Toolkit provides small, low-stakes activities that can be adapted and deployed throughout the semester to help students develop the skills and understanding needed to get them to the finish line: the research project! This toolkit covers the different stages of the research process, covering understanding the assignment, developing topic/research questions, finding and evaluating information (including keywords, OneSearch, peer review), synthesizing and organizing information, composing, designing, citing, and information ethics.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Tutorial
How to Use OneSearch: Citation Tool
(View Complete Item Description)Using automatic citation generator in York College Library OneSearch.
Material Type: Tutorial