Session 301: Beyond Annotated Bibliographies: Pedagogy and Practices for Better Student Literature Reviews

Date: Thursday, January 9

Time: 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM

Location: Library Cafe B30

Presenters: Emily Peterson (Associate Professor, School of Education) & Clarissa Ihssen (Sciences Librarian, University Library)

Session Description:

For STEM and Social Science classes, independent studies, and theses, we frequently ask students to write literature reviews. But the task of searching for and summarizing literature is challenging to do, and even more challenging to teach. This session will share tips and tools for conducting systematized reviews across disciplines and help attendees create assignments that support their students in writing better literature reviews.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explain how to conduct a thorough literature review
• Identify outdated research notions (i.e. that research is linear, the scared straight model of plagiarism) and describe strategies that combat outdated research notions
• Describe at least 2 tools (i.e. literature tables, citation managers, and AI-supported article coding software) that could be used to scaffold student literature reviews
• Create an assignment for a course or independent study that uses one or more tools to scaffold student literature reviews