Information Literacy Resources

        The Writing Program is working with the college's Information Literacy Task Force to develop plans for improving student understanding of "literacies" beyond minimal reading and writing, and forms of "information" production and retrieval more sophisticated than those typically assigned in the so-called "research paper."  For more information, see the web pages below.

"What is Information Literacy?": questions that typically are asked by "information literacy " research and that are relevant college-level writing quality.

 What is Information Literacy?: Digital Readers vs. Print Readers": how the next generation of college students' writing habits will be affected by learning to read and to write using computerized, online technology.

How do Information Literacy skills inform the professional thinker's life?:  adult professionals rarely "write research papers"--how do they really think about research as part of their lives?

Three ways to motivate students to learn research skills:  student motivation to learn new skills increases when they discover their old skills are inadequate to new tasks.

The Ladder of Expertise: novices are drawn to resources they can understand, but experts pursue ever higher levels of reliability and expertise.