Assignments that Work

What makes a good research assignment?
Assignments that work...

  • Communicate the value of inquiry
  • Require application of diverse information seeking strategies
  • Entail topic development
  • Recognize that different types of resources are appropriate for different information needs
  • Expose students to a variety of resources
  • Promote critical evaluation
  • Incorporate ethical considerations of information use
  • Enrich the subject of study
  • Require practice finding and using information for a specific purpose
  • Reinforce information literacy within different disciplines and at different developmental levels

This guide is adapted from Olympic College Library's "Information Literacy Assignments That Work!" and is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0

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