Information+Literacy

__ Information Literacy for English Education __ Databases in the Halle Library It is important to employ the library databases in research, because the actual text of professional articles is often available only to subscribers. The library subscribes to most of the journals you will need in English education research. You can access all of the professional databases at []

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Databases range from the **very inclusive** (popular literature included) [|Gale PowerSearch]

[|OmniFile Full Text Select] to the **exclusively academic** data bases [|**ERIC**] (Education)

[|**Education Abstracts**] (largely duplicates ERIC)

JStore (Range of Disciplines)

NCTE.org (NCTE Publications): //English Journal, English Education, Voices from the Middle, Research in the Teaching of English, Teaching in the Two-Year College, College Composition and Communication//

Use these databases for locating sources to contribute to the //Group Annotated Bibliography,// located on the class wiki at http://morphologopedia.wikispaces.com/Group+Annotated+Bibliography and for the //Critical Annotated Bibliography//, which will be submitted as part of your class research project.

Evaluation of Sources Consider the following criteria for bibliographic annotations: a.currency or timeliness of information (e.g. within 5-8 years) b.relevance to a particular need (topic of the week) c.authority of source or author (e.g. peer-reviewed or popular journals) d.accuracy of the information (e.g. documented and/or verifiable) e.purpose of information (e.g. comprehensive vs. polemical) f.intended audience for information

Other evaluative criteria for sources located at

CRAAP Evaluation of Sources [] Evaluation of Scholarly Sources []