Just Google It-Bringing Students’ Information Literacy to the Composition Classroom

Type of Presentation

Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

Target Audience

Higher Education

Presenter Information

Susanna Coleman, Auburn University at MontgomeryFollow

Location

Room 217

Abstract

See presentation description.

Presentation Description

This presentation examines how instructors might help students apply their existing extracurricular information literacy to college freshman composition courses. This will allow studentsto transfer the skills they already possess to the classroom, in order to successfully navigate the information they must locate and evaluate in a research-based composition course.

Keywords

Information literacy, Google, Literacy

Publication Type and Release Option

Presentation (Open Access)

Recommended Citation

Coleman, Susanna, "Just Google It-Bringing Students’ Information Literacy to the Composition Classroom" (2008). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 23.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2008/2008/23