This guide is to provide materials to help you introduce your First Year Writing (ENGL 1007) students to university-level research and information literacy expectations, along with resources to help you and your students begin exploring the Library's offerings.
The Library has been guided in developing its curricular support by the ACRL's Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and the UConn First-Year Writing Program's habits of practice: collecting & curating, engaging, contextualizing, theorizing, and circulating. For more about these approaches, visit the Info Lit Foundations section of this guide.
This guide is intended to complement the student-facing guide developed by the Library. While that guide is intended to serve as an asynchronous resource for students, it includes a great deal of materials that can be incorporated into instruction. For that reason, many of the resources there have not been duplicated in this guide. It is important to identify opportunities to scaffold and highlight information literacy concepts throughout your course.
The Reference & Student Success Services team is dedicated to supporting students and faculty alike across the curriculum, but we focus in particular on student experiences outside of their declared majors. As such, we have an interest in developing the foundational research and information literacy practices found in FYW and other common curriculum courses.
We're always interested in working with faculty in further developing materials such as these or collaborating on the revision or creation of new assignments, exercises, and learning objects. Email us if you'd like to chat!
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