Consult with Your Library Liaison

Your library liaison (see right menu) will help you create new library assignments or redesign existing ones. Liaisons will:

• Extend existing classes to include additional resources.
• Provide alternative ideas for library assignments other than term papers.
• Come to your classroom to explain a specific research procedure.
• Create class handouts describing library resources and activities.

Research/Term Paper Alternatives

Faculty should consider alternatives to the traditional term paper. Some suggestions include:

• Prepare an annotated bibliography of information sources on a specific topic.
• Compare an article from a popular magazine to an article on the same topic from a scholarly journal.
• Contrast two journal articles or editorials that present opposite points of view.
• Contrast two journal articles that discuss the same topic but from two different time periods.
• Prepare a guide that describes information sources and services specific to a course or academic discipline.
• Locate an article in the popular press and corresponding original research articles in scholarly journals on which the popular article was based. Review related findings, discuss the relationship between the popular article and the original research, and critique the popular article with regard to accuracy.