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The Timing of the Research Question: First-Year Writing Faculty and Instruction Librarians' Differing Perspectives
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Nutefall, Jennifer E.; Ryder, Phyllis Mentzell – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2010
Faculty and librarians agree on the qualities of a good research question. However, in an exploratory study, they differed on when students should develop their research question. While librarians stated that students should develop their question early, first-year writing faculty advocated for delaying the development of the research question.…
Descriptors: Student Research, Librarians, Library Instruction, College Faculty
Developing Research Skills for Civil Engineers: A Library Contribution.
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Bruce, C. S.; Brameld, G. H. – Higher Education Research and Development, 1990
A library instruction program has been instituted in civil engineering at the Queensland University of Technology (Australia) in an effort to improve the research skills of fourth year students working on research projects. Students with extended library instruction were found to have better information-seeking behavior than others. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, College Seniors, Engineering Education, Foreign Countries
Legal Research Education: The Challenge to British Law Schools.
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Gray, Rosemary – Education for Information: The International Review of Education and Training in Library and Information Science, 1984
Discusses use of online legal research databases in British law schools, priorities of legal research education, and role of law librarians; reviews implications of online systems; and describes a methods course which provides a comparative approach to traditional and online legal research and integrates research education within the curriculum.…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Objectives, Databases, Higher Education