Infusing information literacy into the core curriculum: A pilot project at the University of Nevada, Reno

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Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 391-407

  Ragains, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

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EID: 33750419989     PISSN: 15312542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pla.2001.0077     Document Type: Article

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3. Information literacy is often associated with critical awareness of bias in popular media, as President Clinton alluded in the quote cited. An earlier example of this emphasis on detecting media bias is found in Cees Hamelink, "An Alternative to News," Journal of Communication 26 (Autumn 1976): 122.
4. See also Christine Bruce, The Seven Faces of Information Literacy (Adelaide: Auslib Press, 1997), 110-51. Bruce includes problem solving, constructing and extending knowledge in a relational model of information literacy.
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10. ACRL Best Practices Initiative: Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices (Working Edition, March 2001). Available: 〈http://www.ala.org/acrl/nili/ criteria.html〉.
11. See also Information Literacy Best Practices [discussion forum]. Available: 〈http://www.earlham.edu/discus〉. [both web sites viewed July 28, 2001].
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22. Susanne Bentley, ENGL 102 Student Assessments, 2000 (Bentley provided the list and its following table to the author by computer file). All distinct pilot-related student activities were voluntary, which in part accounts for the low response rate to this end-of-semester survey.
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