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Information Literacy Tutorial: F.I.R.S.T.

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• Chapter One: Preparing for Research

  • Introduction
  • Overheard...
  • Choosing the Topic
  • Background reading
  • Keywords
  • Synonyms
  • Review

• Chapter Two: Matching Information Needs with Information Tools

  • Introduction
  • Sitting...
  • Syllabus
  • Currency
  • Coverage
  • Authority
  • Matching Tools
  • Review

• Chapter Three: Searching for Information Using a Computer

  • Introduction
  • Grabbing an ice cream...
  • Computers in libraries
  • Communicating with the computer
  • Search Connectors
  • AND
  • OR
  • AND/OR Together
  • Words not to use
  • Practice
  • Reiview

• Chapter Four: Finding Books Using the Online Catalog

  • Introduction
  • Visiting...
  • Books
  • What is a Catalog?
  • What's in a Catalog
  • Accessing the Catalog
  • First Screen of the Catalog
  • Searching for an author...
  • Searching for an author...
  • Author exercise 1
  • Searching for a title...
  • Searching for a title...
  • Title exercise 1
  • Searching for a keyword...
  • Keyword exercise 1
  • Review

• Chapter Five: Finding Articles in Magazines and Journals

  • Introduction
  • Standing in line...
  • Journals
  • Journals v. Magazines
  • Periodical Databases
  • General and Subject indexes
  • EBSCO Academic Search Elite
  • Searching in EBSCO
  • Interpreting Search Results
  • Getting Fulltext
  • Printing
  • Not in Fulltext?
  • Review

• Chapter Six: Searching for and Evaluating Web Resources

  • Introduction
  • Late Night...
  • Websites
  • Challenges
  • Why search the Web?
  • Web is great
  • Directories
  • Search Engines
  • Evaluating Websites
  • Domains
  • Evaluation Criteria
  • Giudelines
  • Review

• Chapter 7: From Researching to Writing

  • Introduction
  • At a table...
  • From research to writing
  • Plagiarism defined
  • Wrap-up
  • Read
  • Taking notes
  • What is a paraphrasing
  • Paraphrasing to perfection
  • Good/Bad paraphrasing
  • Review

• Chapter Eight: Citing Your Sources

  • Introduction
  • In front of the library
  • Why cite sources?
  • When to cite sources
  • How to cite sources
  • Different citation styles
  • MLA Citation Style
  • MLA Works Cited
  • APA Citation Style
  • APA Reference List
  • Preparing to cite sources
  • Review

Late night in the computer lab:

Joe: Hey, Bryan, how's it going, man! How's the paper coming?
Bryan: All right, I guess. I'm looking for websites now.
Joe: Yeah? Finding anything?
Bryan: Only about a million web pages on every search I try. And most of them are junk! It's driving me crazy.
Joe: You drive ME crazy, always working on that paper! You used to be fun to hang out with.
Bryan: Yeah, whatever. Look at that. "Your search retrieved 695,492 results!"
Joe: Looks like you're gonna be here awhile!

Questions to consider:

• Bryan has two major problems finding sources. What are they?
• What's your favorite web search tool?