Research Guides: Information Literacy: Using Information Ethically

Student Learning Outcomes

Students will demonstrate their ethical use of information by:

Giving proper attribution when they use the words and ideas of others by employing the rules and conventions of a citation style
Balancing their own voices and those of their sources within their writing and research
Applying the principles of copyright and fair use to their work and the work of others

Politics of Information
A lesson plan to help students understand the relationship between citation practices and whiteness/oppression
Information Privlidge
A lesson for helping students think critically about inequities/privilege in access to information
The Conversational Nature of Sources
Lesson plan showing how scholarship is a conversation over time/citation as evidence of that conversation linking sources
Source Notes: Adding Your Voice to the Conversation
Activity to practice summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting.

Preventing Plagiarism Page
Academic Integrity online course
MLA Tutorial | St.Kate's
This tutorial demonstrates how to use 9th edition MLA to properly cite your sources, format a paper, and answer common citation questions
APA Tutorial | St. Kate's
This tutorial shows you how to use APA 7th edition to document your sources and format a paper
Introduction to Chicago Style | St. Kate's
This tutorial shows you how to use Chicago Style 17th edition to properly document your sources, format a paper, and answer common citation questions.
Drag & Drop Anatomy of Citations: Chicago
Interactive tutorial to learn Chicago citation style.
Quote Sandwich
Infographic on how to integrate quotes into your research