Identifying Key Works in a Field: The Package Approach.

McDonough, Kristin

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ERIC Number: EJ355807

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1987

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Identifying Key Works in a Field: The Package Approach.

McDonough, Kristin

Research Strategies, v5 n1 p4-17 Win 1987

Describes a course in information research in which students use a package of representative information sources to identify seminal works in a given field of inquiry. The materials contained in the package and specific procedures followed by students are described, and some informal evaluation of the process is provided. (CLB)

Descriptors: Citations (References), Documentation, Higher Education, Information Sources, Information Utilization, Instructional Materials, Learning Modules, Library Instruction, Research Skills, Research Tools, Resource Materials, Search Strategies, Student Research

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Media Staff; Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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