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Teaching Research and Information Literacy (TRAIL) - Think Like a Researcher: Instruction Resources

This guide is a copy of the Think Like a Researcher/TRAIL guide used 2014-2017.

Outcomes

Course Learning Outcome:  Demonstrate information literacy and be able to work with evidence

Goal:  Develop students’ ability to integrate sources into writing

Specifically, students will be able to

  • Recognize poor & strong source integration
  • Integrate sources into academic writing

Readings

"When academics argue" by Wulff & Morgenthaler. A comic strip showing two people seated at an outdoor cafe saying "something I've read..." repeatedly

Howard, Rebecca Moore, Tricia Serviss, and Tanya K. Rodrigue. "Writing from sources, writing from sentences." Writing & Pedagogy 2.2 (2010): 177-192.

Stedman, Kyle D. "Annoying ways people use sources." Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing (2011): 242-246.

Additional Materials

Introducing Sources: Using Quotes in MLA format

  • slideshare presentation provided by Iris Ruiz (MWP)