INSTRUCTION:
1. First, you must clearly identify your focus group. The group you choose
might be:
– other students are looking for less traditional readings on the notion of a
document in the 21st century.
– a group of Ph.D. students with various backgrounds who want to come up to
speed on cutting-edge thinking in information science.
– a set of undergraduate or high school students who want to see if information
science is more than making indexes and library catalogs.
These are just examples. You can identify any group you’d like.
2. With your potential readers in mind, you want to give them an idea of why, out of
all the articles available these days, the three articles you have chosen are most
worth their time. So, you should write:
– A one-sentence description of your user group at the beginning
– A very summary (one or two sentences at the most) of each article
– What is novel or intriguing about the article?
– Is it an easy/interesting read for non-specialists or a little hard but worth it?
– How does this fit in with the background knowledge of your assumed seekers
– or how does it fit with what you learned in this course?
– what are the author’s credentials – for some, you may only be able to find
what school or organization is their home, others are likely to be famous in
the field – dig a little bit, but not obsessively.
– Follow APA 7th edition for in-text citations and references.
One page should be adequate for each article – so three pages of content is what is
expected.