Information Literacy for Science and Engineering Students

Concepts and Skills

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Mary DeJong, Mary Dejong, Silvia Lin Hanick, Lori Townsend

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This engaging handbook gives students and working scientists and engineers the information literacy skills they need to find, evaluate, and use information.Beginning with a strong foundation in the utility, structure, and packaging of information, this useful handbook helps students and working professionals decode real-world information literacy problems. Mary DeJong provides a compelling context and rationale for the skills scientists and engineers need to succeed in challenging careers that rely on the successful discovering and sharing of complex information. Students will appreciate the in-depth information on sources, especially those needed for research assignments, and scientists and engineers who write for publication will benefit from chapters on searching databases and organizing and citing sources. Written with science and engineering students and professionals in mind, this book is thorough, well-paced, engaging, and even funny.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-09-19
Mått156 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt540 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLibraries Unlimited Series for Teaching Information Literacy Today
Antal sidor344
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781440878763

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Part 1: Overview1 Information Literacy: What It Is and Why It MattersPart 2: Sources: Their Functions, Distinctions, and Where To Find Them2 Information Is Documented in Sources3 Books4 Newspapers and Other News Sources5 Magazines6 Journals and Journal Articles 7 Research Articles8 Review Articles9 Conference Proceedings and Conference Papers10 Dissertations and Theses11 Websites12 Data13 Patents, Standards, and CodesPart III: Important Qualities of Sources14 Scholarly Sources15 Popular Sources16 Primary and Secondary Sources17 Credible SourcesPart IV: Understanding the Sources You Need for Research Assignments18 Decoding Your Research Assignment Instructions19 Choosing a Topic that Matches Source RequirementsPART V: All About Databases 20 Types of Databases21 Database Records22 Database Search Features23 Choosing the Best DatabasesPart VI: Searching Databases for Sources24 Identifying Keywords to Search25 Conducting Comprehensive Searches26 Search Techniques Part VII: Organizing Your Sources27 Managing Source Records28 Accessing Full-Text Sources Part VIII: Citing Your Sources29 The Importance of Citing Sources30 Incorporating Sources into Your Writing 31 Formatting CitationsAppendix A. Get Help with Your ResearchAppendix B. Scholarly MetricsAppendix C. Open Access and the Open Science MovementAppendix D. Social Networking for Scientists and EngineersIndex

Mary DeJong’s outstanding and engaging book reinforces the essential idea that students of every rank have work to do—work they very much need to do, regardless of their backgrounds—in strategizing their way forward as citizens of the world. Information literacy serves as a beacon to guide students, giving them tools to tell truth from falsehood with wisdom and grace: as DeJong shows, an increasingly essential skill in today’s complicated information world.