Teaching Information Literacy and Writing Studies: Volume 1, First-Year Composition Courses (Purdue Information Literacy Handbooks)

✍ Scribed by Grace Veach (editor)

Publisher: Purdue University Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 354
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume, edited by Grace Veach, explores leading approaches to foregrounding information literacy in first-year college writing courses. Chapters describe cross-disciplinary efforts underway across higher education, as well as innovative approaches of both writing professors and librarians inthe classroom. This seminal work unpacks the disciplinary implications for information literacy and writing studies as they encounter one another in theory and practice, in the post-information age. Topics include: reading and writing through the lens of information literacy, curriculum design, specific writing tasks, transfer, and assessment.

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