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Column co-editors Patrick Ragains and Janelle Zauha write about trends and issues that have come to our attention, but also solicit contributions to this space. Readers with ideas for Teaching Matters may contact Patrick Ragains at [ragains@unr.edu](ragains@unr.edu), or the editors of Communications in Information Literacy at [editors@comminfolit.org](editors@comminfolit.org).  \nRagains, An Integrative Lesson Communications in Information Literacy 7(1), 2013  \nIn this column I will discuss a lesson in my credit-bearing information literacy course for honors undergraduates at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) . The lesson comes last in a unit including resource instruction, search practice, and culminating in the reading and evaluation of a scholarly work. This sequence of instruction is significant because it comes close to providing a fullcircle model for information discovery. Its components can easily be adopted or modified for one-shot information literacy orientations when it is appropriate for students to learn about analyzing scholarly articles and citation tracking. Mark Emmons suggests similar assignments among other recommended information literacy activities for college and university freshmen (Emmons, 2013, pp. 38, 41) .  \nMy course, Honors 235: Research in the Information Age, is a one-credit elective in UNR’s Honors Program. It is designed to introduce students to general research concepts, as well as search processes, information sources, and research management tools needed to conduct a thorough literature review for a senior thesis in their discipline. The course is taught mostly online using UNR’s licensed Blackboard platform, but it has three inclass meetings: the introduction to the course, a session on Endnote Web, and the discussion exercise described below. Students receive letter grades. Librarians have taught this course since its inception in 2010.  \nThe first lessons in the course introduce students to models of research, framing questions, the university library’s website, the library catalog, a web-scale search interface (SummonTM, which we have branded as OneSearch), and selected discipline-specific and multisubject databases. One of the Blackboard modules  \nincludes a video showing both ThomsonReuters’ Web of Science and Google Scholar, focusing on their ability to track citing articles ([http://imedia.unr.edu/](http://imedia.unr.edu/)  \n[libref/235honors/wok/wok.html](libref/235honors/wok/wok.html)) . The  \naccompanying assignment requires students to search Web of Science using keywords related to their research interest and then identify the most frequently-cited articles in their search results. The objective is to alert students to the existence of citation trailsand to teach them how to follow citing references.  \nAbout halfway into the semester, following the library and database instruction, students read an article by sociologist Gordon Gauchat, titled “Politicization of Science in the Public Sphere: A Study of Public Trust in the United States, 1974 to 2010”(2012) . Gauchat examined responses collected overtime to a question in the General Social Survey (GSS):  \nI am going to name some institutions in this country. As far as the people running these institutions are concerned, would you say you have a great deal of confidence, only some confidence or hardly any confidence at all in them [the Scientific community]? (Gauchat, 2012, p.6) .  \nI chose this piece because I thought a social science article on a timely topic would be more interesting and readable to students ina variety of majors than a scientific article. The article follows a common format, i.e., problem statement or hypothesis, backgr","cbCaik7DD8VAH0B1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik7DD8VAH0B1","pdf",265695,"English","# Integrative lesson overview\n## Course context and goals\n## Research models and search instruction\n## Citation tracking assignment using Web of Science\n## Scholarly reading selection and rationale\n## Classroom group discussion workflow","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the integrative lesson described in the Teaching Matters column?\",\"answer\":\"The lesson aims to help students learn how to analyze scholarly articles and practice citation tracking as part of an information discovery model.\"},{\"question\":\"Which tools are used to teach citation tracking in the course?\",\"answer\":\"Students view and use tools including ThomsonReuters’ Web of Science and Google Scholar to locate and follow citation trails.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the classroom discussion assignment work?\",\"answer\":\"Students discuss provided questions for a set time, search if needed, and then deliver group presentations summarizing the author’s argument and strategies for finding other viewpoints.\"}]","Volume 7 - Issue 1 - An Integrative Lesson On Searching, Tracking Citations, and Evaluating a Scholarly Article - Teaching Matters Perspectives | PDF",13]