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Evaluating Information with BEAM

BEAM Presentation

BEAM Me Up
Presentation for PDD Fall 24, Latisha Haag and Robyn Hartman

Scholarly Literature

Bizup, J. (2008). BEAM: A Rhetorical Vocabulary for Teaching Research-Based Writing. Rhetoric Review, 27(1), 72–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350190701738858
Bizup's creation of BEAM
Mills, J., Flynn, R., Fox, N., Shaw, D., & Wiley, C. W. (2021). Beyond the Checklist Approach: A Librarian-Faculty Collaboration to Teach the BEAM Method of Source Evaluation. Communications in Information Literacy, 15 (1), 119–139. https://doi.org/10.157
Example of BEAM in a First Year Seminar
Rubick, K. (2015), "Flashlight: using Bizup’s BEAM to illuminate the rhetoric of research", Reference Services Review, Vol. 43 No. 1, pp. 98-111. https://doi.org/10.1108/RSR-10-2014-0047
Example of using BEAM in a rhetorical criticism course
Troutman, P., & Mullen, M. (2015). I-BEAM: Instance Source Use and Research Writing Pedagogy. Rhetoric Review, 34(2), 181–199. https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2015.1008919
Adding I (Instance) to BEAM

Educational Resources

Evaluating Sources Rhetorically Handout
from Indiana University Bloomington Libraries