Faculty Guide to Information Literacy Resources

This tutorial will help you define your topic for a research project, including how to mind map your ideas.

When looking for information, one of the first steps is to develop a research question to figure out the scope of what exactly is needed. In this lesson, students will explore what it takes to narrow a search in order to find the best information.

On the slip of paper, students write their name and a Population that they'd like to focus on. Then, they hand it off to another student, who fills in a Place. They then hand it off to a third student, who fills in a Problem. Finally, the slip is returned to its original owner who must formulate a research question based on those three pieces of information.

Students work in small groups to answer questions about research and the class research project.

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With this free-of-cost guide, students are better equipped to tackle the challenges of developing research questions, evaluating and choosing the right sources, searching for information, avoiding plagiarism, and much more

The New Literacies Alliance (NLA) is a multi-institutional collaborative effort that creates and shares online information literacy lessons.