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CSCU Information Literacy Toolkit

Information Has Value

 
Information possesses several dimensions of value, including as a commodity, as a means of education, as a means to influence, and as a means of negotiating and understanding the world. Legal and socioeconomic interests influence information production and dissemination.                                                                                             

Citing and Plagiarism

Submitted by:   Nancy Dryden, University of Connecticut

Contact info:  nancy.dryden@uconn.edu

Description: This presentation is appropriate for first-year students to introduce them to citing, the MLA citation style, paraphrasing, and plagiarism. It includes links to two YouTube videos and language from UConn's undergraduate Code of Conduct.

Skill Set:    Citing      

Resource Type:     Presentations     

ACRL Frame:        Information Has Value        

Audience:  First Year

Length of Lesson:  15-30 minutes

Materials Used:   MS Powerpoint

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion? No 

The Information Timeline

Submitted by:  Jillian Maynard, Central CT State University

Contact info: j.maynard@ccsu.edu

Description: A visual timeline that helps students begin to understand the way information is created and how it evolves. Just because a new source of information becomes available does not mean the prior sources stop. For example, when books are published on a topic or event, there may/will still be social media posts, magazine articles, etc. published. Each block of time also explains how that source might be used in a scholarly research paper.

A possible accompanying activity is to have students look at four sources related to an event and decide the type of source and where each source fits on the timeline. There is a lot of nuance with this idea of the timeline and what is presented here is a simplified version for the sake of introduction. The activity opens up some potential for good conversation around the construction of info, what voices are heard, and what voices are left out.

Skill Set:    Basics       Evaluating  

Resource type:    Handouts & Instructional Materials  

ACRL Frame:    Information Creation as a Process       Information has Value  

Audience:  First Year

Length of Lesson: 5-15 minutes

Materials Used:  A way to project the image

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion? No

Image of an Information Timeline

This instructional material by Jillian Maynard at Central CT State University is licensed under CC-BY.

MLA 9th edition citation guide

Submitted by:   Kristin Lavoie, Manchester Community College

Contact info:  klavoie@manchestercc.edu

Description: 

An overview of how to cite sources using MLA 9e citation style.

Skill Set:   Citing    

Resource Type:  Handouts & Instructional Materials     

ACRL Frame:     Information Has Value     

Audience:   First Year, Second Year

Length of Lesson:  N/A

Materials Used:   Handout

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion?  No

Plagiarism: is it worth the price?

Submitted by:   Tabbi Heavner, Asnuntuck CC

Contact info:  theavner@acc.commnet.edu

Description: Short video defining plagiarism, discussing consequences, and suggesting ways to avoid it

Skill Set:    Basics        Citing       Other

Resource Type:    Videos & Tutorials  

ACRL Frame:      Information Has Value     

Audience:   First Year, Second Year, Third Year, Fourth Year, Graduate, faculty

Length of Lesson:  5-15 mins

Materials Used: Internet connection, screen, projector  

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion? No