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FYE: Moye Library Orientation: Information Literacy
Welcome to UMO!
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Information Literacy
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What is Information Literacy?
Determining Your Research Needs and Forming a Research Question
Strategic Searching
Identifying Different Types of Sources
Evaluating Information
Citations: Giving Credit to the Information's Creators
Library Resources for College and Career Success
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Table of Contents
What is Information Literacy?
This page is an introduction to Information Literacy and why it's important.
Determining Your Research Needs & Forming a Research Question
This page has information on determining what you want to research and how to turning that into a feasible research question.
Strategic Searching
This page includes information on creating a searching strategies and different searching tips and tricks.
Identifying Different Types of Sources
This page has information on knowing the different type of sources and how to identifying them, such as academic, trade, popular, primary, and secondary.
Evaluating Information
This page has links to information for using the P.R.O.V.E.N. method to evaluate information for appropriate usage.
Citations: Giving Credit to the Information's Creators
This page has information on citing sources for APA, MLA, & Chicago/Turabian. There's also information on avoiding plagiarism.
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