Using Medical Dictionaries to Teach the Critical Evaluation of Information Sources.

Duff, Alistair S.

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ERIC Number: EJ504451

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1995

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Using Medical Dictionaries to Teach the Critical Evaluation of Information Sources.

Duff, Alistair S.

Nurse Education Today, v15 n2 p121-24 Apr 1995

A course-integrated bibliographic instruction session was designed to develop skills in evaluating biomedical information sources. Students in small groups evaluated and ranked medical and nursing dictionaries and defended ratings to the class. (SK)

Descriptors: Biomedicine, Dictionaries, Evaluative Thinking, Information Skills, Library Instruction, Nursing Education

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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