1. September 5, 2013

2. Tonight’s Agenda
 Writing Center/MySkillsLab (guest)
 Information Literacy
 Validity in the academic world
 Validity in the outside world
 Library Orientation
 Plagiarism
 TurnItIn originality reports, similarity indexes
 How to do this week’s homework

3. Information Literacy
 How do you decide what information is credible?
 Credibility = believability
 Skills involved in judging credibility:
 Knowing how structures, procedures, and institutions
control information
 Staying aware of clues within sources that help you
judge their credibility
 Cross-referencing information among multiple sources

4. Information Literacy
 Real world examples of decision-making challenges
related to credibility
 http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
 http://martinlutherking.org/
 http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?ti
d=576074
 http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/martin.asp

9. Information Literacy
 The academic world uses credentials, institutional
affiliation, prestige, and the peer review system as
guides to credibility.
 Peer review example:
 http://www.editorialmanager.com/ncteej/

10. Library Link
 ucl.broward.edu
 It’s also on the blog