Teach IL by Teaching Students to Write Reviews
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Session Seven Breakouts
Proposal
Structured assignments make online teaching that bit easier. In this session, librarian Henrietta Verma of Infobase, former head of reviews at Library Journal, will discuss how you can help students to write short book or multimedia reviews and teach them about content evaluation in the process. Attendees will learn the ins and outs of what should be included (and not included) in a review. Verma will emphasize ideas surrounding today’s academic critique, such as who is usually invited to be a critic, what materials are usually covered by professional reviewers, who has access to professional reviews, and more. The session, which will draw on Infobase’s support for student writers, will help teach review-related concepts from the ACRL framework such as “authority is constructed and contextual” and “scholarship as conversation,” and help students to quickly discern which materials are reliable for a given task. Bonus: Attendees can learn how to use reviewing boost their CVs and get free materials for their libraries.
Short Description
Librarian Henrietta Verma of Infobase, former head of Library Journal reviews, will discuss how you can teach students about content by helping them write short reviews of book or other items. Attendees will learn what should and should not be included in a review. The session, which will draw on Infobase’s support for student writers, will assist attendees in teaching review-related concepts from the ACRL framework and help students to quickly discern which materials are reliable for a given task.
Keywords
ACRL Framework, content evaluation, book reviews.
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Verma, Henrietta, "Teach IL by Teaching Students to Write Reviews" (2021). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 37.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2021/2021/37
Teach IL by Teaching Students to Write Reviews
Session Seven Breakouts
Structured assignments make online teaching that bit easier. In this session, librarian Henrietta Verma of Infobase, former head of reviews at Library Journal, will discuss how you can help students to write short book or multimedia reviews and teach them about content evaluation in the process. Attendees will learn the ins and outs of what should be included (and not included) in a review. Verma will emphasize ideas surrounding today’s academic critique, such as who is usually invited to be a critic, what materials are usually covered by professional reviewers, who has access to professional reviews, and more. The session, which will draw on Infobase’s support for student writers, will help teach review-related concepts from the ACRL framework such as “authority is constructed and contextual” and “scholarship as conversation,” and help students to quickly discern which materials are reliable for a given task. Bonus: Attendees can learn how to use reviewing boost their CVs and get free materials for their libraries.
