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The Web and Information Literacy: Scaffolding the use of Web Sources in a Project-Based Curriculum
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Walton, Marion; Archer, Arlene – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2004
In this article we describe and discuss a three-year case study of a course in web literacy, part of the academic literacy curriculum for first-year engineering students at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Because they are seen as practical knowledge, not theoretical, information skills tend to be devalued at university and rendered invisible to…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Search Strategies, Internet, Information Skills