Information Literacy Tutorials

The following information literacy modules have been designed in collaboration with academic staff at the University of Newcastle.

InfoSkills - online tutorial for undergraduate students at the University of Newcastle.

EndNote Online Tutorial - an introduction to using EndNote Version 7 and Version 9

History Essay Writing - developed in 1997 and updated in 2000, this module addresses the complex and crucial skill of writing a history essay and is aimed at improving skills rather than delivering subject content. The module is structured around the task of writing an essay. It provide overviews to show where tasks fit into the broader picture, showing "worked examples", and explaining the reasons for suggested approaches/strategies to avoid recipe-type application of numbered steps. It attempts to provide students with some basic information literacy skills and indicates that history essays are about distilling facts and interpretations into one coherent argument, rather than finding the 'correct answer'.