Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction to Basic Research Skills

Think Guide #1: Topic Narrowing Exercise

Chapter 2. Finding Search Words

Think Guide #2:  Finding Search Words

Chapter 3. Search Strategies

Think Guide #3: Search Strategies

Chapter 4. Fact Finding: Words, Concepts, Events, Places

Chapter 5. Fact Finding: People, Reviews, Criticism

Chapter 6. Finding Works in Library Collections

Chapter 7. Searching and Evaluating Internet Sources

Think Guide #4: Evaluation of Web Sources

Chapter 8. Finding Magazine and Newspaper Articles

Think Guide #5:  Thinking Critically about Articles

Chapter 9. Citing in Style and Summarizing

Think Guide #6:  Honor Principle Discussed and Applied 

Bibliography

Appendices

Appendix A: Alignment between information literacy and technology standards

Appendix B: Goals and means to achieve them

Appendix C: College libraries are not just larger school libraires

Appendix D: Pre-test: Getting started with primary sources

Appendix E: Science projects in context

Appendix F: Collaborative sample projects in arts

Appendix G: Sample projects in social sciences

Appendix H1: The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)

Appendix H2: Mapping DDC to Library of Congress Classification (LCC)

Appendix I: Pre-test: A baseline for information literacy skills

Appendix J: Scoring rubrics: Examples for information literacy projects

Appendix K: Post-test: An example for take home final quiz


Appendix L: Online databases: A checlkist for evaluating online services

Appendix M: Self-reflection: Getting insight into students' level of awareness

Appendix N: Summarizing sources

Appendix O: Cited reference printed sources

Appendix P: Evaluation of sources

Index