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Article: Information Literacy in Introductory Biology.
- Article from:
- Journal of College Science Teaching
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Byline: Fardad Firooznia and Debra K. Andreadis
"Everybody trusts an unidentified source" -Nessen (1977)
Incorporating information literacy exercises into the science curriculum will help students to navigate through the myriad of information available in different formats, and to become better scientific thinkers and writers. Here we describe how we incorporated such exercises in introductory biology and evaluate their effectiveness in achieving our goals.
Many science instructors have noted the poor quality of scientific writing produced by undergraduate science majors in their classroom (see Jerde and Taper 2004, for example). Although basic ...