Information Literacy in the Writing Spotlight
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Type of Presentation
Panel (1 hour and 15 minutes presentation total for two or more presenters)
Conference Strand
Ethics in Information
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Room 1002
Relevance
N/A
Proposal
Librarian and writing faculty collaborations show significant opportunities for improving student IL skills in core courses, and recent scholarship provides several ideas for implementing collaboration (Barratt, Nielson and Desmet; Deitering and Jameson; Donham and Green); however, little scholarship illustrates the larger task of designing collaborative units. This presentation aims to present efforts between a librarian and writing faculty to design and implement a co-taught research unit into a first-year writing course. The unit replaces a one-shot library session with three weeks of IL training during which student teams learn a specific research skill, determine how to teach the skill to peers, and create a 2-5 minute video teaching the skill to a peer audience. We present the original design for the project with discussion about how our own observations, assessment of the project, and student feedback encouraged and guided our revision process. We then present the revised design for the project, comparison of observations, findings, and students’ feedback between the two projects, and we discuss upcoming revisions to the project. Finally, we offer information and materials on how librarians and writing faculty might begin, implement, revise, and re-implement a collaborative project at their own university.
Presentation Description
We present efforts of a librarian and writing faculty to design and implement a co-taught research unit into a first-year writing course, providing three weeks of IL training. We present the original design with discussion about how observations, assessment, and student feedback encouraged and guided our revision process.
Keywords
IL, Writing, Collaboration, Faculty, Research, Media
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Starnes, Katt and Saar, Michael, "Information Literacy in the Writing Spotlight" (2016). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 85.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2016/2016/85
Information Literacy in the Writing Spotlight
Room 1002
Librarian and writing faculty collaborations show significant opportunities for improving student IL skills in core courses, and recent scholarship provides several ideas for implementing collaboration (Barratt, Nielson and Desmet; Deitering and Jameson; Donham and Green); however, little scholarship illustrates the larger task of designing collaborative units. This presentation aims to present efforts between a librarian and writing faculty to design and implement a co-taught research unit into a first-year writing course. The unit replaces a one-shot library session with three weeks of IL training during which student teams learn a specific research skill, determine how to teach the skill to peers, and create a 2-5 minute video teaching the skill to a peer audience. We present the original design for the project with discussion about how our own observations, assessment of the project, and student feedback encouraged and guided our revision process. We then present the revised design for the project, comparison of observations, findings, and students’ feedback between the two projects, and we discuss upcoming revisions to the project. Finally, we offer information and materials on how librarians and writing faculty might begin, implement, revise, and re-implement a collaborative project at their own university.
