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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2005
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ720774 |
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- Keeping Current. Ideas, Information, and Organization: Connecting Information Literacy and Writing Thompson, Helen M. Writing Across the Curriculum Media Specialists Library Services Information Literacy School Libraries Library Role Librarians Writing Instruction With the current focus on writing across the curriculum and the emphasis on schoolwide writing programs, perhaps library media specialists should consider adding writing instruction to the learning that takes place in the library media center. The teaching of writing should be a natural extension of the teaching of information literacy. Both activities involve ideas generated from information. This article suggests methods to incorporate the teaching of writing into the library media experience by showing students the connections between writing and research and by emphasizing the importance of ideas, information, and organization.