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