LIS 2000 LIBRARY RESEARCH FOR COMPOSITION

This one credit course will be taught in conjunction with a corresponding section of ENC 2000, Critical Research and Composition. This course is designed to provide students with an overview of a large variety of information locating tools including catalogs, subscription databases, and reputable web resources. Emphasis will be placed on accessing, critically evaluating, and citing these resources in order to create lifelong information retrieval skills. Both instructors of ENC and LIS will collaborate on curriculum and assignments. This course will assist students in the creation of their research paper. For the final project for this course, students will formulate a research question, produce a supportive paragraph, and will annotate sources from their research paper. This course fulfills the one-credit Information Literacy requirement for graduation.

Credits

1

Corequisite

ENC 2000