Reflections on collaborative teaching of science information literacy and science writing: Plans, processes and pratfalls

Libraries within their Institutions: Creative Collaborations

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 19-28

  Huerta, Deborah ^a   McMillan, Victoria ^a  

^a Assistant Professor in the University Libraries   (United States)

Author keywords

Composition instruction; Faculty collaboration; Information literacy; Pedagogy; Science writing; Team teaching; Undergraduate education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905793321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1300/J121v17n01_03     Document Type: Chapter

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