Where's Your Evidence?

ISBN-13: 9781352009620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 144 str.

UK) Coonan CB6 3EA Emma (University of East Anglia

Opis

This engaging guide will equip students with the knowledge, skills and tools to find and evaluate academic information in a critical, informed and thoughtful way.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION PART I: WHY GOOD EVIDENCE MATTERS Chapter 1: What do we mean by evidence? Chapter 2: But what's the right answer? Chapter 3: What are my lecturers looking for? Chapter 4: Using Wikipedia and other factual sources PART II: CHOOSING YOUR EVIDENCE Chapter 5: Finding your focus Chapter 6: Information 'flavours' Chapter 7: Where to start Chapter 8: Collecting your evidence: a 4-step plan Chapter 9: Taking it further PART III: EXPLORING YOUR EVIDENCE Chapter 10: Getting your feet wet: skim reading strategies Chapter 11: Squeezing out the juice: summarising your skim reading Chapter 12: Active notemaking Chapter 13: Stepping stones: finding your way to (and through) more material PART IV: USING YOUR EVIDENCE Chapter 14: Putting the pieces together Chapter 15: Dealing with conflicting evidence Chapter 16: Building the 'spine' of your argument Chapter 17: Signposting your evidence PART V: EVIDENCE IN EVERYDAY LIFE Chapter 18: Reading between the lines-uncovering bias in everyday information Chapter 19: Social biases and structural inequality Chapter 20: Dealing with misinformation and fake news CONCLUSION REFERENCES.

O autorze

​Emma Coonan is Research Fellow at the Centre for Innovation in Higher Education, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, where she carries out research into transformative teaching and learning approaches. A librarian for ten years, Emma's background is in academic, digital and information literacies in higher education. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Literacy and Associate Editor of the Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice.