research

Student Research in the Era of Bookless Libraries

Submitted by Dustin Hixenbaugh 13Oct
Ghostbusters librarian

Debating what new technologies mean for old libraries is one of the Internet's favorite obsessions. On one side of the issue there are the Defeatists who think that every innovation is a nail in the library's metaphorical coffin.

Bad Searches and Cultivating Healthy Ambivalence

Submitted by Jeremy Smyczek 26Oct
Champion tag-team wrestlers

Students seem to arrive in my rhetoric classes (RHE 306 and 309K so far) with a polarized understanding of how to use the internet's two most common research tools: Google and Wikipedia. They've either not been clued in (or at least pretend) that both resources are problematic in terms of reliability, or they've been told that both are the devil, to be avoided by any serious scholar.

Researching Public Issues with Twitter

Submitted by Kendall Gerdes 01Feb
Class Twitter account, @rhetoric306, with Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students (5th ed.) as background

I ask my RHE 306 class, Rhetoric and Writing, to focus their writing for the semester around a single public issue. I want students in my class to concentrate on the kinds of disagreements that, however intractable, demand a response. So I ask them to frame their issues as policy questions. As we near the time when I ask students to begin researching their issues in earnest, I've been looking for ways to improve my lesson on library research.

25 Things Students Forget About the Internet, or Why Explicit Instruction of Internet Literacy is Vital (Plus a Special Bonus Thing!!)

Submitted by Wall 13Aug
Sign reading Internet Access Here

This list is by no means complete.  If I had the time, it would probably be 50 items long instead of 25.  It came about as I was mulling over how to explain to students that no, the audience for any given text on the internet is (probably) not all internet users.

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