Where's Your Evidence?

Emma Coonan is Research Fellow at the Centre for Innovation in Higher Education, Anglia Ruskin University, UK, where she carries out research into transformative teaching and learning approaches. A librarian for ten years, Emma's background is in academic, digital and information literacies in higher education. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information Literacy and Associate Editor of the Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice.

• INTRODUCTIONPART I: WHY GOOD EVIDENCE MATTERSChapter 1: What do we mean by evidence?Chapter 2: But what's the right answer?Chapter 3: What are my lecturers looking for?Chapter 4: Using Wikipedia and other factual sourcesPART II: CHOOSING YOUR EVIDENCEChapter 5: Finding your focusChapter 6: Information 'flavours'Chapter 7: Where to startChapter 8: Collecting your evidence: a 4-step planChapter 9: Taking it furtherPART III: EXPLORING YOUR EVIDENCEChapter 10: Getting your feet wet: skim reading strategiesChapter 11: Squeezing out the juice: summarising your skim readingChapter 12: Active notemakingChapter 13: Stepping stones: finding your way to (and through) more materialPART IV: USING YOUR EVIDENCEChapter 14: Putting the pieces togetherChapter 15: Dealing with conflicting evidenceChapter 16: Building the 'spine' of your argumentChapter 17: Signposting your evidencePART V: EVIDENCE IN EVERYDAY LIFEChapter 18: Reading between the lines-uncovering bias in everyday informationChapter 19: Social biases and structural inequalityChapter 20: Dealing with misinformation and fake newsCONCLUSIONREFERENCES.

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