Overview
Back to: LIBR 534: Health Information Sources and Services - Spring 2010
- For the final assignment, you will write a paper alone or with one other student (See paper/topic ideas)
- Term paper, value=30%
- The length of your paper depends on the health library journal to which you hypothetically submit it
- Review health library literature, explore topics of interest and propose some possible topics
- Get approval from your instructor for your topic, and create an outline of the paper
- Send finished project to instructor
- For your final mark out of 30, assess your partner out of 5 and send assessment to instructor in confidence
Assessment
- Each student will assess contribution of their partner
- Peer-assessment or peer review is a mark out of five (5); one = very poor; five = outstanding.
- Send to instructor in confidence
- Instructor read all papers. Providing constructive and helpful feedback is an important professional skill; a rubric for marking will be developed
Other talking points
- Two students write a publishable paper for a health library journal see an example: JCHLA Instructions to Authors
- Its pedagogical purpose is to expose students to a collaborative-collegial model of writing; how to collaborate, research and write as a group
- You have considerable freedom for your paper topic but ideas should add to the literature; get approval for your topic from the instructors
- Start your planning early in term; begin by exploring possible topics with your partner
- Consider what type of writing tool you will use such as Google documents (tour) or this wiki
- The instructor will pick two best papers and help with submission to professional health library journal
How will it work?
- The instructor will assign students if necessary
- Group dynamics can be challenging - you will need to manage this aspect
- Each member assumes a specific role; who will be the leader? will it be shared?
- What type of paper will you write? How long will the paper be?
- What is appropriate given journal requirements (of journal you are hypothetically submitting to)?
- Does your partner want to set some milestones over term?
- Does your partner want to research a specific idea?
- How will you write the paper? Using what tool(s)?
Benefits
- Students learn how to work, write and publish with others
- Builds evidence/research base for other health librarians
- Mirrors collaboration among academic health librarians in preparation to speaking at conferences or writing scholarly papers
- Provides all students with a scholarly line item for their vitae
- Accountability process is in place; old problem of one person doing all the work while others follow - is not permitted.
Tools to format paper and citations
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