Education: Added Resources

Organizing your literature review will make writing it much easier.  There are three main ways to organize a review.

1. Theme
2. Methodology
3. Chronologically

You may want to include aspects of all three, but you will generally concentrate on one.  To do this you need to synthesize articles in one area:

For example:

Theme:  ___________________

1st Author:

2nd Author:

3rd Author:

Synthesis of the finding of all three articles: 

Taking Notes as you read is very important.  Have a consistent method from the beginning that enables you to keep and compare the same information from each article.  Consider using a spreadsheet. You can copy this one or develop your own.

Companion Document to the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education: Instruction for Educators

Below you will find sources from the companion document linked above that could be useful for finding lesson plans or materials for teaching information literacy to PK-12 students (https://acrl.libguides.com/ed/authority):

• "Learning for Justice: Digital and Civic Literacy Framework and Lessons - Lesson plans on digital and civic literacy skills for grades K-12
• Common Sense Media: Digital Citizenship Curriculum - Lesson plans on digital citizenship for grades K-12
• Stanford History Education Group: Civic Online Reasoning - A curriculum on evaluating online information (most useful for middle and high school)
• News Literacy Project - This organization provides programs and resources about teaching students to be smart, active consumers of news and information"

Using keywords to search:

Include important words and phrases.

Describe a central or major concept.

Use broader and more general words for more results.  "birds of prey" "raptors"

Use narrower and more specific words for fewer results.  "red-tailed hawk" "peregrine falcon"