Melding the Nitty Gritty of Critical Thinking and Information Literacy into English Developmental and Composition Classes

摘要

Working together, librarians and faculty have successfully melded student learning objectives from information literacy and English to net more dynamic and effective lesson plans. By identifying and integrating critical thinking cognitive skills from both arenas, library and classroom sessions can be built to reinforce one another. This paper brings insights from work at three large community colleges in New Jersey that forged ahead with work in this way. The focus was on the progression of student learning objectives from early developmental writing and reading through level II composition classes.