Increasingly, the role of the librarian is becoming one of educator. Whether providing training on library resources or teaching research methods as an integrated part of a higher education degree course, many of us have seen a huge change in our original job descriptions. This blog accompanies a series of meetings to discuss our changing profession.
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Interesting Article
Here's an interesting article highlighting the need for information literacy education:
I love the ‘morality of writing’ mentioned in the Inside Higher Ed article to which your article points. This suggests that, before a student can write about a subject, they should be expected to read and digest material to the extent that they can talk about it first.
But that then opens me to an interesting question, posed by Jamieson, one of the two researchers on the Project Citations project which generated the discussion: Could it be that, in these times of tweeting and sampling, it is those who hold with the idea that summarising should be the goal of most citations who are out of date?
The Project Citations project, it is worth noting, is being run by academic writing researchers, and not by information literacy researchers, highlighting again the need not only to keep abreast of the academic writing literature and research, but also to be active partners in the research and writing.
Interesting question, Aoife and I've been mulling over it for a bit.
Perhaps I am just terribly old-fashioned (!) but I fail to see why the 'era of tweeting and samplings' should mean that summarising is no longer the goal of most citations.
How else can you tell if learning of any kind has taken place? What is the alternative to summarising? Is it not simple cut and paste?
2 comments:
Thanks for the pointer Ailish.
I love the ‘morality of writing’ mentioned in the Inside Higher Ed article to which your article points. This suggests that, before a student can write about a subject, they should be expected to read and digest material to the extent that they can talk about it first.
But that then opens me to an interesting question, posed by Jamieson, one of the two researchers on the Project Citations project which generated the discussion:
Could it be that, in these times of tweeting and sampling, it is those who hold with the idea that summarising should be the goal of most citations who are out of date?
The Project Citations project, it is worth noting, is being run by academic writing researchers, and not by information literacy researchers, highlighting again the need not only to keep abreast of the academic writing literature and research, but also to be active partners in the research and writing.
Interesting question, Aoife and I've been mulling over it for a bit.
Perhaps I am just terribly old-fashioned (!) but I fail to see why the 'era of tweeting and samplings' should mean that summarising is no longer the goal of most citations.
How else can you tell if learning of any kind has taken place? What is the alternative to summarising? Is it not simple cut and paste?
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