100% Information Literacy Success

Gwenn Wilson, Jeff Tunney (Autoren)

Loseblattwerk

256 Seiten

2017 | 4th Revised edition
CENGAGE Learning Custom Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-337-10217-9 (ISBN)

Infos

100% INFORMATION LITERACY SUCCESS, 4th Edition, teaches you to develop crucial information skills to succeed in college and the workplace. This book is designed to help you develop skills beyond the classroom, focusing on those skills necessary for 21st century learners and workers. Using hands-on learning activities and real-world applications, the text will teach you how to determine the nature and extent of information needed to solve a problem, how to access the information effectively, how to evaluate the information found, how to use the information for a specific purpose, and how to communicate the information effectively and legally.

Autor

Gwenn Wilson is a senior instructional designer with over 20 years of experience in Instructional Systems Design. She is a published author of many faculty guides, student guides, training CD-ROMs, customized curriculum for career colleges, and textbooks. As an outside consultant, Ms. Wilson has provided training and instruction for many Fortune 500 companies in areas such as sales training, leadership training, call center training, and technical training. Jeff Tunney has been an educational professional for over 12 years and has worked in computer training, continuing education, and higher educational settings. His experience in higher education consists of having served as a director of distance learning, an online course and curriculum designer, and a residential and online faculty member at the undergraduate level. Mr. Tunney also has been employed in several other professional fields, such as computer network administration, property management and development, and financial services. Jeff earned an undergraduate degree in Finance from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA degree from Bentley University. He also has had many positive experiences abroad as a student in the commerce program at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, and as a derivatives specialist for a London-based investment company.

Inhalt

1. INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION LITERACY. Information Literacy: An Overview. Defining Digital Literacy. Components of Information Literacy. Steps in Effective Research. 2. DETERMINING THE INFORMATION YOU NEED. Solving Information Problems: Defining the Need and the Audience. Primary and Secondary Sources. Library Information Sources. Information Retrieval Systems. 3. HOW DO YOU FIND AND ACCESS INFORMATION? Solving Information Problems: Find the Information. The Evolution of Libraries. Types of Electronic Resources. Deep Web and Dark Web. Searching for Information. Collecting Information. 4. EVALUATING INFORMATION. Solving Information Problems: Evaluate the Information. Evaluating the Resource. Evaluating Authority. Evaluating Currency. Evaluating the Content. Evaluating Web Sources. Evaluating Multimedia 5. ORGANIZING INFORMATION. Solving Information Problems: Organize the Information. The Importance of Effective Organization of Information. Organizational Strategies. Presenting Information Effectively. Organizing Written Documents. Organizing Graphics. Applications and Uses of Organized Information. 6. LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES RELATED TO INFORMATION. Solving Information Problems: Communicate the Information. Intellectual Property. Copyright. Plagiarism. Citing Information Sources. Information and Privacy Issues. Information and Security Issues. The Importance of Information Literacy in the Workplace. Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.12.2016
• Verlagsort: Mason, OH
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 203 x 232 mm
• Gewicht: 386 g
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
• ISBN-10: 1-337-10217-2 / 1337102172
• ISBN-13: 978-1-337-10217-9 / 9781337102179
• Zustand: Neuware