IL activities

A useful post from Jennifer Jarson recently on the ACRL blog gives a detailed description of two interventions with students in the USA, both aiming to improve the students understanding of how authors use evidence, through closer examination of the texts (in one case looking at academic articles, in the the other a high-quality popular article).
Jarson, J. (2016, March 4). Information literacy strategies and student agency: Connecting the dots with “dissection” activities. http://acrlog.org/2016/03/04/information-literacy-strategies-and-student-agency-connecting-the-dots-with-dissection-activities/
Photo by Sheila Webber: Vote Boyle: another poster from the recent student union election, March 2016