LibGuides: Spartan Savvy: Integrative Model for Information Literacy: Integrating Sources

Integrating Sources

Students often struggle with what to do with the information they find. With a goal of exploring why and how to integrate sources into their own work, this topic covers the inquiries:

What is the value of incorporating the work of others into our own work?
How can we accurately represent the sources that we use?

Activities:

Argument Reflections
Students are asked to reflect on the usefulness of an outside source in building an argument.
Constructing An Argument
Using segments from different sources, students will reflect on how to use sources when constructing an argument.
The Scholarly Conversation: Reading & Applying Scholarly Research
Students learn how to read scholarly articles and how to use them as evidence for claims.

Related Framework Concepts:

Information Creation as a Process
Information Has Value
Scholarship as Conversation