UNIV 112 Resources for Faculty

This slide deck, which you can *make a copy of* and adapt, covers scholarly, substantive, popular, and news sources: what they are, where to find them, and how to evaluate them.

A video presentation of the above slide deck.

This is the same video as above, but with assessment questions incorporated throughout. Please encourage your students to watch the video and answer the questions so that VCU Librarians can improve our instruction on this topic.

This activity, which can take either 20 or 50 minutes depending on which option you choose, will allow your students to examine scholarly, substantive, and popular articles and articulate the differences between them and which ones are appropriate for their information needs. Keep in mind that you can *make a copy* of this activity and adapt it.

A simple activity, which can take 20-60 minutes depending on how complex or basic you want it to be, will ask your students to find examples of news items and substantive sources online. You can *make a copy* and adapt/change the activity to suit your needs.

2 minute video about how there is no such thing as a "perfect source."

A 4.5 minute tutorial on scholarly, trade, and popular articles.

Quick overview of peer review--what it is and why it is important.

A 2 minute video that shows how to find Richmond Times-Dispatch news articles using Access World News. Very important if you are having your students do local research.