Information Literacy: Developing Research Skills
The following pages provide resources instructors and students can use to develop and strengthen information literacy skills during the process of performing research:
Evaluating Information:
- Critically Analyzing Information Sources
- Guide published by Cornell University describing criteria for evaluating information resources published in all formats.
- Evaluating Web Information
- Interactive guide from Virginia Tech demonstrating methods for evaluating web sites.
- Evaluating Resources - Brief Guide
- Single page worksheet, in PDF, to use as a quick guide for evaluating information sources.
Citing Sources:
- APA Style
and
- MLA Style
- Online Bibliography Style Manuals from the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at
Urbana- Champaign:
- Chicago Style
- Documentation in Chicago or Turabian style. From the Writers' Handbook at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Citing Government Publications
- Uncle Sam's Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications.
- Citation Style Guide for Internet and Electronic Sources
- From the University of Alberta Libraries.
Tutorials:
- Tutorial Samples
- PDF page with links to online tutorials developed for various university libraries.
Research Assignments:
- Journal of Research Process
- PDF file. Used as a guide for recording information on resources examined during the research process.
- Guidelines for Assignments
- ILAG (Information Literacy Assessment Group) basic guidelines for developing assignments that require the use of information literacy skills, in PDF.