ENG170

ENG 170

Information Literacy​

Loren Mintz

​Information literacy is knowing how and when to use and evaluate different types of information.

• Health Sciences: Sifting through different treatment options for injury or illness

• Education: determining the appropriate lesson plan for students

• Business: being able to decipher demographic data on potential customers for your business to succeed.

Multiple Choice

This is a picture of a distant star taken by the $10 billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope

• True

• False

Picture of a Spanish sausage known as Chorizo.

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"Let us learn to be wary of arguments from authority as much as the spontaneous eloquence of certain images..." ​

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​Hoax

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​Goals for this session: ​

1. Learn the differences between popular and scholarly articles

2. Know how to locate the library's databases/research guides

Open Ended

Think of 3 characteristics of a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal article.

Consider: Who reads them? Who writes them? What are they about?

​4 characteristics of scholarly, peer-reviewed, journal articles:

1. Author: Experts

2. Length: Long, usually 5+ pages

3. Cite Sources

4. Original Research ​

Multiple Choice

What is the first part of a scholarly journal article?

• The introduction

• The abstract

• The results

• The background

1. Abstract ​

2. Introduction

3. Literature Review/Background

4. Methodology

5. Results

6. Discussion

7. Bibliography ​

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8 Parts of a Scholarly Journal Article

Identifying various types of articles

Popular v. scholarly ​

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4 types of articles:

• Scholarly journal article

• Magazine article

• Professional or "trade" article

• Newspaper article ​​

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Is it a Magazine or a Journal? - English 170: Writing Seminar - Research Guides at Carroll University

Draw

Match the source to the correct type of article

​Building a Search Strategy

Open Ended

Example Question: What can communities and individuals do to reduce plastic waste?

Identify 2-3 good keywords (search terms):