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Publication Date: 2006-Sep
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Perspectives on ... Librarians as Writing Instructors: Using Paraphrasing Exercises to Teach Beginning Information Literacy Students
Bronshteyn, Karen; Baladad, Rita
Journal of Academic Librarianship, v32 n5 p533-536 Sep 2006
This article promotes the use of paraphrasing exercises as add-ons to information literacy instruction in order for students to gain proficiency in thinking critically about a source and expressing their own voice with the convention of parenthetical citation. Examples are provided for development and assessment of a paraphrasing exercise to promote the effective utilization of information.
Descriptors: Librarians, Literacy Education, Information Literacy, Writing Skills, Critical Thinking, Writing Teachers, Information Utilization, Citations (References)
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