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English Composition Information Literacy Toolkit: #1 Choosing a Topic

Content and activities for information literacy competencies.

Objectives

  • Choose a topic that fits your assignment
  • Gather ideas using different types of resources
  • Narrow a topic and explore research questions

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Complete the Activity

Before you begin the worksheet, you must first download and then save the document to your computer.  After you save it initially, you can then open it, fill it out, and save it again under a unique file name.

The above worksheet asks you to conduct different searches.  Below, you will find search boxes to help you complete the activity.

Wikipedia:
Google Scholar Search