How can information literacy help me? Here's a list of some information literacy skills you can develop:
- Finding scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles for your class assignments
- Deciding whether or not you can trust an information source
- Accurately citing the sources you've used in a paper
- Knowing what kind of information or source you might need for an assignment
- Finding books in the library
- Determining if a website is trustworthy or not
- Developing research topics based on what information already exists
- Seeking out different opinions on the topic you're researching
- Create good search terms and keywords for their assignment
