Reframing Information Literacy Skills As Rhetorical Practices: Report on a Pedagogical Collaboration between First-Year Composition and Academic Librarians at the University of South Carolina

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Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)

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Higher Education

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Short Description

Classical rhetorical theory offers a theoretical framework uniquely suited to foster students’ development of information literacy. This framework informed a collaborative effort between the First-Year English program and the University Libraries at the University of South Carolina to develop a course that teaches information literacy as a thoroughly rhetorical practice. By teaching information literacy as a set of higher order skills via repeated application, the course attempts to situate information literacy within a concrete set of reading, writing, and research practices.

Keywords

Classical rhetorical theory, Information literacy, Library-faculty collaboration, College freshman

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Reframing Information Literacy Skills As Rhetorical Practices: Report on a Pedagogical Collaboration between First-Year Composition and Academic Librarians at the University of South Carolina

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