WCI Information Literacy Resources

Would you like to learn more about what scholarly articles are and how you can identify them? Let this tutorial guide you.
(This tutorial can be assigned for credit)

Learn how to recognize the common building blocks of a scholarly article in order to become an effective and efficient reader of the scholarly conversation.
(This tutorial can be assigned for credit)

This quick tutorial from Purdue University explains the basics of a scholarly paper: what, how and why. If you are new to academic literature you will appreciate the simple and effective explanation in this tutorial. It will be helpful when your professor sends you on a journey to look for scientific literature.

This video explains the various terminology and links onscreen in the article view of an academic database, and then describes the major elements of an academic article.

Why is your teacher an authority? Once an authority, always an authority? How did the authorities become authorities?

Which sources are typically considered appropriate for college research?

This guide offers tips for evaluating the quality of content on the Web. The Web is a rich environment of Web pages, blogs, wikis, social networking sites, free research services, media types and more. It can be a challenge to figure out which content to trust. This guide will help you to identify the type of site you are visiting and to evaluate its content.

This challenge includes two quests: Peer Review and User Response.

This challenge provides an overview, synthesizing activity, and three quests around authors' distinctive voices.

Developed by the University of Kansas, this video is accompanied by a worksheet that a student can fill out, using the article of their choice, during the video.