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Credo Information Literacy Tutorials

Below is a listing of the tutorials that are part of the library's Information Literacy–Core subscription. Hover over the information symbol for details and click on the links to preview the tutorials.

These tutorials can be added to your eCampus course to allow you to track student completion. Please contact Christine Forbes at chforbes@monmouth.edu if you are interested in this option.

The tutorials can also be added to a course research guide to be completed as self-directed student learning.

Getting Started with Research

Tutorial: Why Information Literacy Matters Use this tutorial to show students how information literacy is relevant to their day-to-day lives. Students will become familiar with their own information seeking habits, privilege, and skills used in their personal, academic, and professional lives.
Video Tutorial: The Research Process Students will learn how to align their initial exploration to their assignment requirements. Includes two videos and two checkpoint activities covering pre-research, in-depth research, outlining, and writing.
Tutorial: Developing a Research Focus In this tutorial, students will be introduced to pre-research techniques to determine the scope and depth of their research focus.
Tutorial: Background Research Tips Determining a manageable research question can be challenging for students. Use this tutorial to introduce strategies for aligning a research focus with assignment guidelines and research tools such as concept maps.
Video Tutorial: Beginning Research with Wikipedia/Google This tutorial will help students understand the process of background research by introducing techniques for gathering background information using Google and Wikipedia. Tutorial includes two videos and a checkpoint activity.
Tutorial: Scholarship as Conversation Use this tutorial to encourage students to develop a scholarly mindset. In this tutorial, students will learn how their projects help build the body of work in a given field. Additionally, students will become familiar with the process of attribution and critical evaluation.
Tutorial: Research for Persuasive Writing This tutorial will introduce students to the purpose and characteristics of persuasive writing in order to locate and select the most appropriate types of evidence to support their assignments. Students will also be able to evaluate both supporting and conflicting evidence in order to incorporate the appropriate types of evidence that will strengthen their position and present a nuanced view of their selected topic.

Sources of Information

Tutorial: Source Types Students will be introduced to a variety of source types that they may encounter during their research. Use this tutorial to help students locate and evaluate relevant sources to meet their research needs.
Video Tutorial: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources In this tutorial, students will be introduced to the characteristics and purposes of primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. Students will come away with a deeper understanding of the applications of each source type so that they can locate, evaluate, and analyze a range of sources for their academic assignments.
Tutorial: How to Read Scholarly Materials Do your students feel intimidated by scholarly materials? This tutorial will walk students through the types and components of scholarly materials as well as strategies for strategic reading.
Tutorial: Selecting Appropriate Digital Sources This tutorial will help students identify their information need in order to locate and assess relevant resources. Using the techniques in this tutorial, students will also be able to distinguish among types of online sources in order to select those most appropriate for their information need.

Searching for Information

Video Tutorial: Searching as Exploration This video tutorial digs deeper into exploratory search strategies. Students will learn how to craft a search statement and the importance of neutral language. Includes two videos and two checkpoint activities.
Tutorial: Choosing and Using Keywords This tutorial will walk students through the process of selecting, refining, and expanding their collection of search keywords in order to locate the most relevant information to their research topic.
Tutorial: Search Techniques, Part 1 Use this tutorial to familiarize students with strategic searching. Students will learn the purpose and uses of natural language and Boolean operators to broaden and narrow the scope of their search.
Tutorial: Search Techniques, Part 2 Students will learn strategic search approaches to navigate scholarly databases. Use this tutorial to introduce advanced search techniques for broadening and narrowing the scope of a search.

Evaluating Information

Tutorial: Evaluating Information Students will learn how to evaluate a range of resources in order to select the most authoritative sources on their research topic.
Video Tutorial: Identifying Misinformation This video tutorial will help students identify the characteristics and purpose of misinformation as well as its effect on their personal and academic lives. The tutorial includes two videos and two checkpoint activities.
Tutorial: Evaluating Digital Sources Using Lateral Reading This tutorial will introduce students to the practice of lateral reading. Students will learn how to evaluate online materials by digging deeper into the origins and motives behind sites. Students will also have the opportunity to practice lateral reading on their own through a guided activity.
Tutorial: News Reporting vs. Opinion Pieces in Journalism This tutorial will help students differentiate between news journalism and opinion journalism in order to analyze the purpose, standards, and expectations related to reporting and editorializing.

Presenting and Organizing Information

Tutorial: Synthesizing Information for Academic Writing This tutorial defines and explores information synthesis, including strategies for bringing together ideas and facts from multiple different sources at various stages in the research process, including background research and note taking, annotated bibliographies, and outlines. It also reviews different examples of final products of synthesis, such as literature reviews, persuasive essays, and research papers.
Tutorial: Annotated Bibliography Students will become familiar with annotated bibliographies and the role annotations play in research and scholarship. Use this tutorial to help students identify the purpose, structure, and content of annotated bibliographies and create their own annotations.
Tutorial: Paraphrasing, Quoting, and Summarizing This tutorial provides students with an overview of paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing depending on the goal of their writing, plus how to accurately represent their sources.
Tutorial: Presentation Skills
Tutorial: Study Skills

Citations

Tutorial: Why Citations Matter This tutorial provides an overview of why it is important to cite sources, and an explanation for why different citation formats and citation styles exist.
Tutorial: APA 7th Edition Citation Style Students will be able to identify the required elements of APA 7th edition citation style in order to properly format in-text and reference list citations in their assignments. The tutorial includes several “check your understanding” questions with drag and drop exercises where students can format citations of different source types properly.
Tutorial: MLA 9th Edition Citation Style Use this tutorial to provide students with an overview of the MLA 9th Edition citation style, including both in-text citation format and works cited format. Tutorial provides an explanation and examples of different sources using the container concept introduced in MLA 8, and also includes several “check your understanding” questions with drag and drop exercises where students can format citations of different source types properly.

Information Ethics

Video Tutorial: Academic Integrity In this tutorial, students will learn how to apply principles of academic integrity to their daily lives, by recognizing the value of information and their own responsibilities as users of information. The tutorial contains two videos which will introduce students to the importance of approaching research as an encounter with ideas, acquiring information from a range of sources, and looking at issues from a range of perspectives in order to achieve a full understanding of their topic.
Tutorial: Information Has Value Use this tutorial to introduce students to the ACRL Frame Information Has Value. Students will become aware of their roles as information creators and consumers and learn how issues like copyright and the digital divide affect their academic and personal lives.
Tutorial: Digital Privacy This tutorial will introduce students to the idea of digital privacy and their responsibilities as information users. Students will analyze how they engage with online tools and services and consider ways to protect their personal information, plus the limits of what individuals can do to protect their privacy.
Tutorial: Copyright Use this tutorial to aid in instruction on intellectual property and copyright, including exceptions to copyright restrictions such as fair use, and guidance on the ethical use of others’ intellectual property.
Tutorial: Introduction to Digital Citizenship Use this tutorial to help students to consider what it means to be a digital citizen and start to examine their relationship with information in online spaces.
Tutorial: Digital Citizenship in Practice In this tutorial, students will examine strategies for applying digital citizenship practices to their daily lives. Students will also have the opportunity to create their own personal code of ethics to help them apply responsible information habits outside of the classroom.

Visual and Quantitative Literacy

Tutorial: Why Does Visual Literacy Matter?

Using Critical Thinking and Logic

Tutorial: Introduction to Logical Reasoning Students will be able to identify the required elements of APA 7th edition citation style in order to properly format in-text and reference list citations in their assignments. The tutorial includes several “check your understanding” questions with drag and drop exercises where students can format citations of different source types properly.
Tutorial: Analyzing Information This tutorial will introduce students the analysis process by encouraging open-mindedness, critical thinking, and curiosity.