Information Literacy: How To Excel In College Research

Overview Students will identify why Information Literacy skills are important to their college research and their future careers. Students will distinguish between information sources, investigate the credibility of sources and determine the appropriateness of sources for their information needs. According to the 2013 AACU Leap Survey of Employers, employers are looking to hire new employees that have many cross-cutting essential skills. One of those skills is Information Literacy which includes the ability to determine the need for outside information, where to go to search for that information, how to most effectively search for that information, how to cite that information appropriately, and most importantly, how to evaluate what they find to determine its worth and credibility. Information Literacy skills must be honed during a learner’s college career so that they can be intelligent consumers of information. The skills used during college for research papers and projects carry ov