TA Info Lit Workshop 7 22 09

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Teaching Information Literacy & Critical Thinking

Esther GrassianUCLA College Library

Summer 2009(7/21/09)

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About you…

Your name, department & course?

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Handouts...

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Survey Results

28 responses 17 TA’ing for 1st Time 11 TA’ed 1-3 Years Research Papers… Referrals…

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Agenda

Top 5 Teaching Topics IL-Enhanced Syllabus Online & In-Person Student

Help Help for TAs/Instructors Questions Welcome!

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Top Topics

1. Broadening/Narrowing Research Topic

2. Effective Database Selection & Searching

3. Website, Blog, etc. Critical Thinking

4. Library Catalog Searching 5. Plagiarism

Online Student Help;IL Enhanced Syllabus

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“Hoax, Scholarly Research, Personal Opinion? You Decide!”

TOPICS

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Web 2.0 Critical Thinking

“Evaluating Web Content” “Thinking Critically About Web 2.0

& Beyond”TOPICS

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Topic Narrowing/Broadening

Topic Broadening Exercise Topic Narrowing Exercise Road to Research: Starting PointsTOPICS

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Topic Broadening

Hispanic women 85 and older in LA need protection from abuse in nursing homes. TOPICS

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Key Topic Words

Hispanic Women 85 and older L.A. Abuse Nursing homes

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Related Words/Concepts

Latin*; Chican* Senior Citizen*; Elderly California; Los Angeles Neglect; Violen* Long-Term Care

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Topic Narrowing

Broad topic: Immigration Limiters…TOPICS

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Topic Narrowing

Broad topic: Immigration Limiters…

Timeframe: 1940s – 1950s Geographic Region: California Person/Group: Braceros Event/Aspect: Living conditions

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Topic Sentence/Argument

“Poor living conditions for Braceros did not improve over a 10-year period they worked in California, from the 1940s to the 1950s.”

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Online Help…

Road to Research: Starting Points OWL: Prewriting (Invention) Genera

l Questions OWL: More Prewriting (Invention

) QuestionsTOPICS

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UCLA Library Home Page

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All 13 UCLA Libraries Books Periodical Subscriptions Other materials No Articles!

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Help Using It…

Road to Research: Find It! Books College Library How-To Guides UCLA Library Catalog guide (pdf)TOPICS

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Magazines vs. Journals

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Academic Conversations

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“Visible” v. “Invisible” Web

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Which Database?

Subject Matter? Time Period? Publications?

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Web of Science

Topics: Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities

Materials: Articles (from 5300 Journals), Book Chapters

Time: 1900+ (sciences)

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Let’s try it...

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Get Copies

Online Copy Paper Copy Request a FREE Copy

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Key Points

Pick Useful Database Can search, display, save Look for…

Online Help Boolean Operators Truncation (Wild Card) Symbols

DON’T PAY FOR ARTICLES!!

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Online Student Help

Assignment Calculator Road to Research Research Paper Planner

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More Help for Undergrads…

Academics in The Commons Workshops (Covel Commons)

½ hour Research Appointments (through MyUCLA Workshops)

Questions? Ask Us!TOPICS

Plagiarism

What it is & how to avoid it Why to cite How to cite

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TOPICS

Plagiarism = unacknowledged or unintentional use of another’s words and/or ideas

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TOPICS

Avoiding Plagiarism

Citation, except “Common Knowledge”

Quote Summarize Paraphrase

OWL (Purdue): How to paraphrase

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TOPICS

Why cite?

Show Evidence Give Credit “Breadcrumbs” “friendofdarwin’s Darwin Poster”

(video) “EPIC 2015” (video)

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TOPICS

How to Cite

“Which is Which?” (exercise) Road to Research: Plagiarism

(tutorial) Road to Research: Citation

(tutorial) “Bruin Success With Less Stress”

(tutorial)

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Questions?

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Help for TAs/Instructors…

Information Literacy Assignment Ideas

UCLA LibGuides Teach Information Literacy & Critic

al Thinking! TOPICS

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Information Literacy Enhanced Syllabus

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Review

Information Illiteracy Teaching Topics Online & In-Person Student Help Help for TAs/InstructorsTOPICS

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UCLA Library in Second Life