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I Have a Story to Tell: Information Literacy and Testimonio Writing

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Kimberly Y. Franklin

The worksheet, activity, slides, and library instruction session outline for this assignment are a methodology for integrating information literacy and library research into testimonio writing in a first-year undergraduate Introduction to Higher Education (IHE) course in the College of Education at California State University, Los Angeles. In the testimonio, students reflect upon and write about their educational experiences while integrating academic sources into their work.

Resource Statistics

Resource Type(s)
Activity
Assignment Prompt
Lesson Plan
Slide Deck
Worksheet
Information Literacy Frame(s) Addressed
Authority is Constructed and Contextual
Information Has Value
Research as Inquiry
Scholarship as Conversation
Searching as Strategic Exploration
Discipline(s)
Education
Ethnic Studies
Type of Institution
University
Scope
Classroom-level
Course-level
License Assigned
CC Attribution-NonCommercial License CC-BY-NC

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Professors Miguel Zavala, PhD and Jose Paolo Magcalas, PhD, California State University, Los Angeles, College of Education (library instruction session, assignment); Kimberly Y. Franklin, PhD, Education Librarian, California State University, Los Angeles, University Library (library instruction session, worksheet, slides, activity, library instruction session outline)