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Facebook Audience Insights tutorial

These materials accompany the book chapter “Using Facebook and Google digital marketing tools to engage with consumer data” from Teaching Business Information Literacy published by ACRL Press.Visual tutorial of how to enable and use Facebook Audience Insights, 

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Business Research Writing Handout

These materials accompany the book chapter “Let's Compare: Using a Recommendation Report to Teach Basic Business Research Skills” from Teaching Business Information Literacy published by ACRL Press.

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Marketing Research Session Two Handout

These materials accompany the book chapter “Franchise Frenzy” from Teaching Business Information Literacy published by ACRL Press.

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Marketing Research Session One Handout

These materials accompany the book chapter “Franchise Frenzy” from Teaching Business Information Literacy published by ACRL Press.

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Identifying Research Questions in a Discipline

The purpose of this activity is to help students identify the types of research questions that scholars in their field are investigating in preparation for developing their own research questions. As a class, students will review multiple scholarly articles related to a topic or question, identify the research question or questions, and then discuss the characteristics of research questions that are found in the field. 

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Multiple Format Research or Inquiry-Based Assignment

In this assignment, students will consider how the format of the information product can impact what they are able to convey related to a topic and how their information may be received and valued. Students will investigate a topic or question and share their response in multiple formats. Formats could range from a more traditional research paper or poster to blogs, infographic, video, or even a series of Tweets. Students will be required to consider how the format(s) they have selected might impact what they can or should share and how their message may be received.

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Identifying Common Source Types in a Discipline

This activity is intended to help students understand the types of sources that are most commonly cited in research in a specific discipline or field. Students will review the citations from multiple relevant journal articles to identify the types of sources that are often cited. They will also be encouraged to consider why certain types of sources may be more cited than others, and what may be missing by relying primarily on certain types of sources. In addition, students will get practice in identifying the appropriate citation format for different types of sources.

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TBIL - Kirkwood - Handouts 1 & 2

These materials accompany the book chapter "Business Ethics and Intellectual Property: Barbie & Bratz” from Teaching Business Information Literacy published by ACRL Press.The document consists of 2 handouts that should be separated for the instruction. I've placed both a .docx and a .pdf version.

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Dream Job & Dream Employer Assignment

This assignment accompanies the book chapter, "Next Level Career Research: Helping Students Land Their Dream Jobs" from Teaching Business Information Literacy published by the ACRL Press.

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Market Research for Entrepreneurs

These materials accompany the book chapter “A Tour of Public Use Market Research” from Teaching Business Information Literacy published by ACRL Press.

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