Information Literacy
Barbara Fister: Playing for Keeps: Rethinking How Research Is Taught to Today's College Students
Summary: The article tells a lot about the ways in which students do research. Fister goes on to tell about how students are now being asked to use scholarly articles or journals in their research and how the students are getting their information from these articles or journals. She tells how instead of really looking through the information in these articles to find helpful pieces of information they just grab bits and pieces or just quote from the article without the information really being helpful. She goes into some of what students are being asked to do as well, like research papers, but also other kinds of work as well. Fister also mentions some courses that are used like the Information Fluency course that are to help students with research in school. Some courses are more for juniors or seniors or others for students in grad school.
One of the things that Fister brings up is that a lot of students find research papers and doing the research for them, boring. Also that when students do write research papers they try to write them in such a way as they think that scholars write them, even though they may not have the necessary skills yet to write at that level. (par. 10) |
Fister also says that "I think good research prompts are ones that give students some say in what they will choose as their problem or question within the goals of the course." (par.12) She also brings up reading in her interview. She says, "Reading just for fun is something that we have discovered the vast majority of students enjoy, but rarely do during the academic year." (par. 16)
Fister also goes into a little detail about her own work and writing and how she uses some of these techniques to improve her own writing and to keep it sharp and readable. (par. 23) |