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Nessa Vahedian Khezerlou

Adjunct Reference & Instruction Librarian
Joliet Junior College & College of DuPage

Nessa is a librarian at Joliet Junior College (JJC) and the College of DuPage (COD). She holds an MLIS from UW-Madison and an undergraduate degree from UIowa. Her practice focuses on critical pedagogy and constructivist learning, helping students find nuance in complex information landscapes. She empowers students to move from passive consumption to active, skeptical research—proving that critical thinking is pretty lit. I can be reached most easily at my personal email address nessavahedian@gmail.com.

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21 hours 20 minutes

Resources Contributed

That's What She Said: An Introduction to the Information Cycle & Citation Chasing
Learning Objectives By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
  1. Describe the information cycle and how different source types emerge over time following an event or discovery
  2. Navigate the library discovery tool and Google Scholar to locate articles and books
  3. Perform backward and forward citation chasing to identify related sources
  4. Create a properly formatted MLA Works Cited page with hanging indents
  5. Articulate the academic, professional, and…