Information Literacy
Students will be able to evaluate and act on criteria for relevance, credibility, and ethics when gathering, analyzing, and presenting primary and secondary source materials
In this outcome, I show how I am able to navigate through different articles of writings from others, looking for papers that pertain to what I am interested in, being storytelling and rhetoric. Some of my basic thoughts are shown in my Synthesis chart, where I comb through articles to find some good ones, and pull out the important information. My other artifact for this outcome is my whole Annotated Bibliography, where I take my notes from other sources and put it all together into one cohesive paper.
Synthesis Note
Chart
An assignment I did to organize articles and classify what discussion they were apart of was the synthesis note chart. In this assignment, I had to collect around seven sources, and pull out key information for each one. For instance, I was looking for what evidence they use for their claim, what the conclusion or point the article was trying to make, and how the article connects to others participating in a similar discussion, to name a few columns. By completing this assignment, I was able to increase my ability to asses an article for the relevance and deem what information is important for my own research.
Annotated Bibliography
The annotated Bibliography was the culmination of all the work done in the synthesis note chart. It puts all the work done there into a more coherent form, giving a brief overview of the article and explaining how the different articles are important to my own research. As well as this, the articles collected provided the baseline for a CARS model introduction to a greater research paper for the future. By completing this assignment, tactics used to evaluate information seen in articles written by others were solidified, and provided an outlet to present what I had gathered from the articles in a professional manner.