Build on an Existing Assignment

I am integrating information literacy into an existing assignment.

Information literacy is best when it is part of the scaffolding of your course. Because of this, we recommend that any activity you choose is linked to a scored/ weighted assignment. Look at the examples below to help determine which information literacy integration is right for your first-year seminar.

I have a research assignment that…

• Encourages the use of freely available websites (sources found through Google or other search engines.) 
  • Use the lateral reading and the determining authority integrations.
  
  
• Requires use of library material.
  • Use the search & find integration.
  
  
• Encourages the use of many and varied resources.
  • Use the source type integration.
  
  
• Requires the use of scholarly sources (journal articles or scholarly books.)
  • Use the scholarly sources integration.
  
  
• Asks students to work with an unfamiliar topic or one they may have trouble easily defining.
  • Use the developing a topic integration.
  
  
• Requires the use paraphrasing or direct quotations.
  • Use the preventing plagiarism integration.

Contact your liaison librarian for help with building information literacy elements into your existing or new assignments. Fill out the information literacy session request form to have a librarian visit your class (in-person or online synchronous/ asynchronous.)

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