Faculty Resources for Rhetorical Arts

Tuesday, August 17, 2021
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
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The Rhetorical Arts course fosters articulate expression, critical thinking, and moral reflection, enabling students to engage in written and oral public debate with persuasive force and stylistic excellence.

• First Year Requirement
• Continue to develop the critical thinking, information literacy, and research skills begun in the First year Seminar.
• Assign at least 10% of the final course grade on the basis of information literacy, with a librarian-led workshop and one or more course-integrated assignments
• Information Literacy Outcomes:
  • Conceptualize an effective research strategy and then collect, interpret, evaluate and cite in written and oral communication
  • Distinguish between types of information resources and how these resources meet the needs of different levels of scholarship and different academic disciplines

                                                                                                                                     from Rhetorical Arts Criteria 2012

2017-2018

The Library taught required in-person information literacy sessions to 100% of all eighty-four Rhetorical Arts sections. 1,595 students received information literacy instruction in their Rhetorical Arts course.

The Library also surveyed all Rhetorical Arts instructors who taught a RHET 1000 course in the fall in order to assess the library instruction and library support materials for the course. Twenty Rhetorical Arts instructors participated in this survey. 89% of respondents encouraged their students to use the RHET 1000 LibGuide (research guide) to help with information literacy assignments, and 83% agreed that the information on the LibGuide was helpful for completing course assignments. 100% of the respondents agreed the process for scheduling a library visit was clear, and 89% thought the library instruction was at least somewhat valuable in helping students complete course assignments. 33% want more emphasis placed on citing sources during the library visit.