University of Rhode Island Libraries
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University Library faculty provide library instruction for all sections of the
first-year Writing courses offered by the URI
Department of Writing and
Rhetoric. Each semester approximately sixty sections visit the library where
students learn to retrieve citations to periodical articles from a reference
database and to access the text of those articles to support a research
assignment. They learn not only the mechanics of using a database, but also
search strategies and evaluation of the sources they find. In additions,
several classes enrolled in the Early Credit High School Program in
Composition come to the library each semester for the same instruction.
Goals:
- Students will learn how to retrieve citations from credible articles
published in journals and magazines.
- Students will learn how to access those articles from URI Library.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will create a concept map in order to focus their research.
- Students will use the concept map to write a research question and
identify its main concepts in order to formulate a search strategy.
- Students will use their search strategy in a general reference database in
order to identify citations to appropriate articles that will help answer
their research question.
- Students will use the database tools in order to access the full text for
the citations they find.
- Students will evaluate their results in order to determine their
credibility, authority, currency, accuracy, and bias.
For more information regarding the Library's
sessions for the College Writing Program, please contact Jim Kinnie at (401) 874-9240 or
jkinnie@uri.edu.
Contact information
If you have any questions about the Libraries’
Instruction Services, please contact Chair of Public Services Deborah Mongeau or Information
Literacy Librarian Mary MacDonald. Deborah can be reached by e-mail at dmongeau@uri.edu or by telephone at (401) 874-4610. Mary
can be reached by e-mail at marymac@uri.edu or by
telephone at (401) 874-4635. |
