Political Science 

Your librarian is happy to help incorporate information literacy skills and concepts into your class. If you have a research based assignment you may schedule a library instruction session to help your students get started with their research. Other ideas for incorporating information literacy into your class include:

• Have your students compare and contrast three sources of information about the same topic. Have them look at a web site, a magazine and a scholarly journal article to help them discrimate the type of information that each provides.
• Have your students "Google" the author of one of your Course Reserve readings to see what they can find out.
• Have your students paraphrase their course reserve readings and watch for the temptation to simply copy'n'paste without thinking

Political Science Research Competency Guidelines

by the Law & Political Science Section of ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries)
Approved by the ACRL Board July 1, 2008
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/PoliSciGuide.pdf

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