The community study assignment for leisure studies: Integrating information literacy, leisure theory, and critical thinking

Research Strategies

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 205-216

  Starr, Glenn Ellen ^a   Gaskill, Paul ^a  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0031521401     PISSN: 07343310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0734-3310(97)90041-0     Document Type: Article

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2. Engeldinger Eugene A. Teaching Only the Essentials - The Thirty-Minute Stand. Reference Services Review. 16:(no. 4):1988;96.
3. Gaskill Paul L., Starr Glenn Ellen. Using Library Research to Support Budget Preparation and Financial Decision Making in Recreation and Park Departments. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration. 10:(no. 3):Fall 1992;17-31.
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7. Meyers, p. 73.
8. Browne M. Neil, Keeley-Vasudeva Mary L. Classroom Controversy as an Antidote for the Sponge Model of Learning. College Student Journal. 26:(no. 3):September 1, 1992;369.
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17. Keeley Stuart, Browne M. Neil. Assignments that Encourage Critical Thinking. Journal of Professional Studies. 12:Winter 1988;8.
18. Keeley, p. 9.
19. Browne, p. 370.
20. Nelson Jennie, Hayes John R. How the Writing Context Shapes College Students' Strategies for Writing from Sources. August 1988;19. (Center for the Study of Writing) (ERIC ED 297 374).
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25. Stuart Keeley and M. Neil Browne list some useful principles for designing such assignments in their article, "Assignments that Encourage Critical Thinking" (cited above). The author (Starr) is compiling an annotated bibliography (which now includes over seventy items) of such assignments as described in books, ERIC documents, library science journals, and the teaching journals of various disciplines.