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  • Evaluating Sources: Look Behind the Book - in Word

    • Students need to learn how to take a critical look at information sources and evaluate the quality of the information they find. This assignment will provide your students with some criteria they should use to evaluate books and other information sources.
  • Journal Review: Digging in to Analyze Ideas, Trends, & Histories - in Word
    To contribute "new knowledge" to a discipline or field, students must know more than the titles of key academic/professional journals, they must know ideas, trends, histories and possibilities of a range of journals existing within a given area of study.

  • Plagiarism & Citing Sources
    • - in Word
    Use this lesson plan to help your students recognize what plagiarism is, when and where it occurs, and learn how to avoid it through proper citation integration.

  • What's the Spin? Researching Controversial Issues - in Word
    Examining all sides of a controversial issue necessitates skill with using a variety of sources that explore issues from different angles. Students need to develop an awareness of the medium and medium's general treatment of controversial issues, and be able to seek out various perspectives of an issue.

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