1. Why use the Library?
RHET 1000: Rhetorical Arts
2. What is the most difficult part about
Research?
84%
Just getting started
Head, Alison and Michael Eisenberg. “Truth be Told. How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the
Digital Age.” Project Information Literacy. 1 Nov. 2010. Web. 20 Jan. 2014.
3. Where do you go to get
information for a research
paper?
4. What did you do in High School?
Welcome to Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
10. Yay! I found a topic that “experts” are arguing
about.
11. Internet Myths
• Everything worth finding is already on the
Web.
• Google searches the whole Web.
• The best information is found in the first 10
results.
• Searching is easy.
• Everything is free.
• Everything is truthful, authoritative, accurate.
Devine, Jane and Francine Egger-Sider. Going Beyond Google: The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching
New York: Neal-Schuman 2009. Print.
12. “Why use the library?”
Librarians are here to help you with your
research!
13. Research is locating the ideas of scholars and
experts.
We help students and scholars to find evidence
to support their academic arguments.
14. Research is locating the ideas of scholars and
experts.
We help students and scholars to find evidence
to support their academic arguments.
15. A writer who does research
will be more persuasive than a writer who
does not.
For over three-fourths (84%) of the students surveyed, the most difficult step of the course-related research process was getting started. http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_Fall2010_Survey_FullReport1.pdf
Not everything is on the internet.
Availability to browse and read books, magazines, encyclopedias, and other print materials that are not online.
Not everything is free.
Access to fee-based databases with thousands of magazines and scholarly journals in full- text.
Librarians (with faculty help) spend time selecting quality materials: books, journals and databases. We collect scholarly and authoritative materials especially for your classes.
Personal assistance through LMU librarians and assistants. Get Help!