Lookin’ for Collaboration in All the Right Places

A Librarian’s Role in the Changing Preparation for College Writing Landscape

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Issues Comprehension

Culture

Continuity

Different academic disciplines have different ways of presenting and analyzing information, different ways of building knowledge, and different ways of presenting knowledge in written forms. This paper gives you the opportunity to begin building your own understanding of how writing is created and operates within a discipline of interest to you. You may choose whatever discipline you wish to examine for this project.

Many students come to higher education with only a vague idea what it means to become a participating member of an academic discipline. Your purpose is to give students who are new to the academic discipline you chose to explore an introduction to the expectations for writers in that discipline. Ultimately, your paper should help your audience understand the ways that writing is used to create and communicate knowledge in ways that help them become readers and writers within the discipline under discussion.

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Synthesis

Experiment

Feedback

Tweak

Observations and Best Practices• There is no one way to describe our international

students• Overall diversity of nationalities and genders

changes the temperament of the class• Quiet students are still engaged• Add in more scaffolding and handouts• Allow 50% more time than you have to cover

material• Emphasize using articles• Emphasize finding vocabulary

Think- Pair- Share

What challenges do international students face with information literacy at your institution? What do you think are some of the causes?

With whom do you think you could collaborate to improve instruction to international students? (List 3 possibilities and how they might help)

Thank you!

Rachel M. MinkinInformation Literacy LibrarianMichigan State University Librariesminkinr@msu.edu