Information Literacy in VosViewer

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For this exercise I chose the topic “information literacy” which had over 3,000 hits in Web of Science. I was expecting there to be quite a few hits for this, so was pleased by the number. Looking through the list, the results were varied in terms of related topics and disciplines. Importing things into VosViewer […]

Bartholomae’s “Inventing the University”

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Bartholomae, David. “Inventing the University.” When a Writer Can’t Write: Studies in Writer’s Block and Other Composing Process Problems. Ed. Mike Rose. New York: Guilford, 1985. 134-65. What can you learn about the number of citations to this article per year since it was published? As is evidenced in the graph the number of times […]

Invisible Women

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As I mentioned in class, I just finished Perez’s Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (2019). Perez cites some of the kinds of research we read for last week in her book.  She talks about how problematic many research methods are regarding everything from city planning to medical research. So many […]

Elise’s Intro

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Hello all, As I mentioned in class, I am a first year PhD in English composition. I’m also doing the DSAM certificate. With my background as a composition teacher and a writing programs/instruction librarian I am very interested in how students interact with information objects in writing contexts. This might include student source evaluation behaviors, […]