Information Literacy in the Disciplines
Rhetoric & Composition Studies
The ACRL IS Information Literacy in the Disciplines Committee has gathered links and citations to information literacy standards and curricula developed by accrediting agencies, professional associations, and institutions of higher education.
Accrediting Agencies & Professional Associations
ALA/ACRL/Literatures in English Section. Research Competency Guidelines for Literatures in English. Literatures in English Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/researchcompentenciesles.cfm (accessed April 28, 2008).
National Council for Teachers of English and the International Reading Association. "Standards 7 & 8." Standards for the English Language Arts. National Council for Teachers of English. http://www.ncte.org/about/over/standards/110846.htm (accessed April 28, 2008).
Articles
Bronshteyn, Karen, and Rita Baladad. 2006. Librarians as writing instructors: using paraphrasing exercises to teach beginning information literacy students. Journal of Academic Librarianship 32 (5): 533-536.
Clark, Irene. 1995. Information literacy and the writing center. Computers and Composition 12 (2): 203-209.
Elmborg, James, and Sheril Hook. 2005. Centers for Learning: Libraries and Writing Centers in Collaboration. Chicago: American Library Association.
Elmborg, James. 2003. Information literacy and writing across the curriculum: sharing the vision. Reference Services Review 31 (1): 68-80.
Gaunt, Marianne I., and Stan Nash. 1992. Expository writing and information literacy: a pilot project." New Directions for Higher Education 20 (2): 83-90.
Holliday, Wendy, and Britt Fagerheim. 2006. Integrating information literacy with a sequenced English composition curriculum. portal: Libraries & the Academy 6 (2): 169-184.
Kennedy, Colleen. 2005. Teaching information literacy to the advanced writing class in three sessions. Electronic Journal of Academic & Special Librarianship 6 (1/2). http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v06n01/kennedy_c01.htm (accessed April 28, 2008).
Kraemer, Elizabeth W., Shawn V. Lombardo, and Frank J. Lepkowski. 2007. The Librarian, the machine, or a little of both: A Comparative study of three information literacy pedagogies at Oakland University. College & Research Libraries 68 (4): 330-342.
Nagelhout, Ed. 1999. Pre-professional practices in the technical writing classroom. Technical Communications Quarterly 8 (3): 285.
Norgaard, Rolf, Lori Arp, and Beth Woodard. 2004. Writing information literacy in the classroom. Reference & User Services Quarterly 43 (3): 220-226.
Sult, Leslie, Vicki Mills. 2006. A Blended method for integrating information literacy instruction into English composition classes. Reference Services Review 34 (3): 368-388.
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