Why use the Library?

RHET 1000: Rhetorical Arts

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What is the most difficult part about Research?

Head, Alison and Michael Eisenberg. “Truth be Told. How College Students Evaluate and Use Information in the Digital Age.” Project Information Literacy. 1 Nov. 2010. Web. 20 Jan. 2014.

Where do you go to get information for a research paper?

Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

What did you do in High School?

The neutrality of this article is disputed

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Needs more reliable sources May have significant problems

Gaps in content

Yay! I found a topic that “experts” are arguing about.

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Internet Myths

• Everything worth finding is already on the Web.

• Google searches the whole Web.• The best information is found in the first 10

results.• Searching is easy.• Everything is free.• Everything is truthful, authoritative, accurate.

Devine, Jane and Francine Egger-Sider. Going Beyond Google: The Invisible Web in Learning and Teaching New York: Neal-Schuman 2009. Print.

“Why use the library?”

Librarians are here to help you with your research!

Research is locating the ideas of scholars and experts.

We help students and scholars to find evidence to support their academic arguments.

Research is locating the ideas of scholars and experts.

We help students and scholars to find evidence to support their academic arguments.

A writer who does research

will be more persuasive than a writer who does not.

How can librarians save you time?

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