MUSIC HISTORY SEMINAR: "Richard Strauss"
MUH 6935 : Spring 2017 (Warfield)
Information Literacy Modules
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this assignment is to ensure that you are familiar with the concept of plagiarism and how to avoid it in your scholarly writing.
Guidelines
- In brief, you are to complete five (5) "Information Literacy Modules" that deal with some basic concepts for identifying and using resources of various kinds. Much of this was covered at some point in MUH 6916 (Music Bibliography and Research), so you should already be familiar with most of these concepts. Nevertheless, in case you have forgotten some of that information (or not had reason to use it since completing MUH 6916), this assignment will refresh your memory of the methods of good scholarship for use in completing your final paper in MUH 6935.
- The chosen "Information Literacy Modules" are available on the UCF Library Website, and you will need to log in with your NID and your NID password. If you don’t remember your NID, you can look it up here https://my.ucf.edu/nid.html. If you’re unsure of your NID password, you can reset your password using this online form https://extranet.cst.ucf.edu/PWSelfReset/pages/NidCheck.aspx.
- You are to complete the following five Information Literacy Modules, each of which should be accessed directly via the hot link below (so that your attempts and grades are recorded) or you may copy and past the link into your own browser:
- "Understanding the Information Cycle" : https://obojobo.ucf.edu/view/9004
- "Recognizing a Research Study" : https://obojobo.ucf.edu/view/9005
- "Focusing an Information Search" : https://obojobo.ucf.edu/view/9006
- "Evaluating Web Sites" : https://obojobo.ucf.edu/view/9003
- "Avoiding Plagiarism Using Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed." : https://obojobo.ucf.edu/view/9002
- Each of the "Information Literacy Modules consists of a series of self-guided instructional pages (similar to a set of PowerPoint slides, sometimes including brief videos) that you should read or watch in full to learn specific concepts.
- Following the informational portion of the module is a practice session (roughly 10-12 multiple-choice questions) that allows you to verify what you have learned or mastered.
- The final portion of the module is a multiple-choice quiz that records your score in the system. I have set the modules to allow you up to ten attempts at each test, and I will accept a minimum score of "80" as acceptable for each module. When you have an acceptable minimum score, you have completed that module and may move on to the next.
Completing the Assignment and Grading
All literacy modules are self-directed, so you may take as much time as you wish to complete each individual module. Nominal time for completion is 20-30 minutes for each. You may complete as many or as few modules in a session as you wish.
The five chosen modules may be completed in any order that you wish, although these modules are listed in a logical order that moves from more general to the particular.
Scores are recorded in the system by your individual attempts, and only the single highest score is saved for each module. 80% is considered successful.
All attempts must be completed by 11:59 pm on Sunday, 16 April 2017. (There will be no extensions under any circumstances.)
Grading for this assignment is pass/fail, i.e., either you have completed a module successfully (score of 80 or better) or not. There is no partial credit for scores below 80. (Contact me if you need more than ten attempts to complete a module.)
Each successfully completed module counts for 1 point of your final course grade. (The assignment is worth 5% of your seminar grade.)
Again, no partial credit will be awarded for individual modules (scores under 80). Additionally, failure to complete any of the assigned modules will not be accepted as an excuse for problems with citations and bibliography on your final projects.