...Maggie Murphy Purpose This paper aims to explore how collaborative research assignment design consultations between instruction librarians and new graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) have the potential to improve the design of research assignments for first-year writing courses. Design...

... a unique perspective from the researchers’ own reflections on the processes and techniques they used to complete their research papers. Findings – Many students encountered difficulties when writing a rigorous research paper, even though they had previously completed research assignments for other...

...Meagan Bowler; Margy MacMillan; Carol Perruso Brown; Barbara Kingsley‐Wilson Purpose This paper aims to report on how a close collaboration between librarian and instructor made it possible for an existing course assignment to organically evolve into an information literacy assessment, overcoming...

...Sylvia Tag; Daniel Brendle‐Moczuk Purpose The paper seeks to argue that one of the ways librarians and library information literacy sessions can have a positive impact on students’ lifelong learning is to create and mark assignments. Design/methodology/approach If library information literacy...