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Thinking Your Way to Success

 

  
While taking a speech class, Leticia needs to prepare a presentation on an issue affecting college students. She considers many topics and decides to focus on the topic of alcohol and college students. She brainstorms an outline, and this exercise makes her decide that this topic is just too big for a 10- minute speech. She then focuses on one issue of the topic, “lowering the drinking age in the United States.” Next she consults her assignment sheet and realizes that she must have 10 varied sources to support her speech. She has thought of using books and magazines, plus she is confident that she can find something on the Internet. Her roommate mentions that there was an article in last week’s newspaper about the advantages of lowering the drinking age. Then she remembers her friend’s mother is a member of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), so perhaps she will interview her. All of a sudden, it’s clear—the speech will be about “The Pro’s and Con’s of Lowering the Legal Drinking Age.” Leticia plans ahead for the amount of time she’ll need to gather her sources, and she heads to the Library.
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Adapted from: Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Association of College and Research Libraries, a Division of the American Library Association, 2000. (http://www.ala.org/acrl/ilstandardlo.html) Web design adapted by Debbie Anderson and Jill R. Seymour from graphic design created by Mick Welsh.   ©MCCCD Library Instructional Council, 2002.   Last updated: 4 Nov. 2002. Send comments to Library Instructional Council Chair.