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Scholarship or Propaganda: How Can Librarians Help Undergraduates Tell the Difference?

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Bodi, Sonia – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1995

Compares characteristics of propaganda and scholarship, and lists indicators that can enable librarians to help students tell the difference between what is genuine scholarship and what passes for scholarship. Describes how this evaluation method was used in an undergraduate bibliographic instruction class to help students critically assess…

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods

The Thought That Counts: Six Skills That Help Kids Turn Notes into Knowledge.

Rankin, Virginia – School Library Journal, 1999

Discusses how to help students apply thinking skills to library research and provides examples of techniques for teaching comparing and contrasting, sequencing, classifying, cause and effect, problem solving, and decision making. Examples were effective with middle schoolers but could also be adapted for high school or older elementary school…

Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education