On this guide you'll find information about library resources, services, tools, and other web resources to help you write your papers, do your presentations, cite your sources, and more for your ENG120 and ENG200 courses.
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Created by ENG120 student Fall 2018
Shapiro Library has developed and introductory information literacy adventure badge for new students to learn information basics as well as how to use library resources. Students who complete this will receive and electronic badge. The link to the badge is embedded in all ENG120 Brightspace courses. We encourage instructors to incentivize students to complete the badge to best prepare them for college level research in their courses.
Library research develops skills that are part of the broader skill set called "information literacy," which consists of the ability to do four key tasks:
This guide is designed to assist students in ENG 120 or ENG 200 classes with developing information literacy skills for use in their class research papers, projects and presentations. Our other guides will continue to help foster and build on your information literacy skills.
Academic libraries use the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education to guide instructional goals and practices.
Ad Fontes Media created a chart where they rate the news for bias and reliability using a rigorous methodology and a politically balanced team of analysts. Their focus is on analyzing the news content of articles and shows. Ad Fontes is Latin for “to the source,” because they rate the news by looking at the source itself. You may look up a news publisher name or site in the Interactive Media Bias Chart and see the ratings for articles from that source on the chart which ranges from Most Extreme Left to Most Extreme Right across the horizontal political axis, and from Contains Inaccurate /Fabricated Info to Original Fact Reporting on the vertical reliability axis.
SIFT is a helpful acronym for a method developed by Mike Caulfield for initially (and quickly) evaluating online source credibility. S.I.F.T. stands for: Stop; Investigate; Find; and Trace. When you find a source on the web, before you use it (in an assignment, or forward it) be sure to:
Sometimes it is less important to know about the source and more important to assess their claim/what they are saying. This is where "lateral reading" comes in.
How To Spot Fake News by the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)