Sep 08 2010
Strategies for Teaching Students How to Find Sources – Tips Adapted from our Rhetorics
Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age by David Blakesley and Jeffrey L. Hoogeveen
- Introduce the librarians
- Tour the library’s website
- Have students search for subject-area guides
- Interpret a search results page
- Differentiate between and practice author searches, title searches, and keyword searches
- Introduce both general and specialized databases
Everything’s an Argument by Andrea A. Lunsford and John J. Ruszkiewicz
- Distinguish between library databases and the Internet
- Distinguish between subject headings and keywords
- Introduce advanced searches (for library databases and Google)
The Academic Writer by Lisa Ede
- Teach students how to keep a research log, tracking their search terms and successful keywords
- Teach time management strategies, situating research within the larger writing process
- Teach students how to use Journal Finder and periodical indexes
- Introduce special collections
Meeting of Minds by Patsy Callaghan and Ann Dobyns
- Demonstrate and provide practice brainstorming key terms/concepts
- Introduce Boolean terms and other strategies for limiting and filtering results