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A Note for Instructors
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1. College Research and Information Literacy
2. What This Book Will Cover
3. Information Disorder, Truth, and Trust
4. Web Evaluation Skills: A “Bleak” Track Record
5. Information Cynicism
6. College Students and Cynicism
7. Degree of Bias
8. Avoiding Confirmation Bias in Searches
9. Information Hygiene and Info-Environmentalism
10. Conclusion
11. Why Fact-Checking?
12. Four Moves
13. When Emotional Content Goes Viral
14. Tracking the Source of Viral Content
15. Fact-Checking Images and Memes
16. Fact-checking Sites
17. Has it Already Been Fact-Checked?
18. Conclusion
19. Chapter Scenario
20. Information Sources: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
21. How They Fit Together: The Information Cycle
22. Critical Thinking: Source Types
23. Information Sources: Traditional Formats
24. Information Sources: Media
25. Information Sources: Online
26. Critical Thinking: Choosing Resources
27. Information Sources: Bias
28. Critical Thinking: Bias
29. Conclusion
30. Choosing a Topic
31. Background Reading
32. Conclusion
33. Research Questions
34. Identifying the Main Concepts
35. Avoiding Confirmation Bias
36. Brainstorming Related Terms
37. Creating a Search Statement
38. Conclusion
39. Chapter Scenario
40. Using Your College Library’s Search Tool for Books and eBooks
41. Critical Thinking
42. Finding Your Books
43. Filters and Advanced Search Options
44. Practice
45. How Libraries Organize Materials
46. Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)
47. Critical Thinking
48. Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
49. Critical Thinking
50. Conclusion
51. Chapter Scenario
52. Library Databases: What’s Inside Them?
53. Critical Thinking
54. Choosing a Library Database
55. Critical Thinking
56. Specialized Library Databases: Videos, Ebooks, and More!
57. Scholarly Articles, Magazine Articles, and Newspaper Articles
58. You Found Some Resources! Now What?
59. Preparing to Use a Database: What Do You Need to Find?
60. Full Text? HTML, PDF, and EPUB
61. Critical Thinking
62. Conclusion
63. Chapter Scenario
64. A Very Brief History of the Internet
65. Critical Thinking
66. Search Engines and Tools
67. Comparing Search Tools
68. Practice
69. Academic Search Tools
70. Open Access
71. Critical Thinking
72. Searching and Privacy
73. Controlling Your Search
74. Practice
75. Citing: Websites, Web pages, Files, Articles
76. Conclusion
77. Contributing to the Conversation
78. Why We Cite Sources
79. Plagiarism and Academic Integrity
80. Conclusion
81. Citation Styles
82. When to Cite Sources
83. MLA Style
84. APA Style
85. Citation Steps for Any Style
86. Citation Generators
87. Conclusion
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By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
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