secondary sources

Research Literacy with AI: Verifying Sources with Perplexity and the CRAAP Framework to Improve Intrinsic Motivation

Activities, collaboration and group work, critical thought and analysis, digital literacy, genAI, information literacy, Integrating sources, primary source research, Process, research, secondary source research, writing technologies /

Tingyu Zhang Assignments & Activities Archive Activity Description This activity teaches undergraduates to critically locate and verify sources by triangulating results from Perplexity AI (free version), Google Scholar, or Academic Search Complete, using the CRAAP framework (Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose) to evaluate sources (Blakeslee 6). Rather than treating AI as a shortcut, it frames […]

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From Connection to Critique: Evaluating an AI-Generated Essay

Assignments, critical thought and analysis, digital literacy, genAI, information literacy, Integrating sources, Process, research, rhetorical appeals and argument, secondary source research /

Abigail Michelini Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description This assignment brings generative AI into the writing classroom with the goals of learning about what it can and cannot do well, enhancing students’ ability to critique it, and engaging it responsibly without compromising critical thinking. The best place for this assignment is in the second half

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NotebookLM–Assisted Annotated Bibliography

annotated bibliography, Assignments, genAI, Integrating sources, primary source research, reading strategies, research, secondary source research, writing technologies /

Salma Kalim Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description This multi-step assignment invites students to compare their own scholarly reading practices with AI-generated analyses within the context of annotated bibliography writing. By incorporating NotebookLM—a document-grounded research tool—students engage in a guided exchange with artificial intelligence as they draft, revise, and refine their understanding of academic sources.

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Acting Bias: Staging Media Analysis in First-Year Writing

Assignments, critical thought and analysis, information literacy, news, observation, reading strategies, research, rhetorical appeals and argument, rhetorical situation, secondary source research, visual/multimodal rhetorics /

Freddie (Fiona) Harris Ramsby Assignments & Activities Archive Assignment Description In first-year writing classrooms, embodied teaching methods, such as Kathryn Dawson and Bridget Kiger Lee’s drama-based pedagogy (DBP), “[provide] an innovative means to stimulate students’ creativity…to foster learning that sticks, cultivating brains that retain information” (Harris Ramsby 1). Combining Newman P. Birk and Genevieve B.

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Assessing Source Credibility for Crafting A Well-Informed Argument

reading to write, secondary source research, Volume 3 /

Kate Warrington, Natasha Kovalyova, and Cindy King Volume 3 Chapter Description This article walks students through how to use critical reading strategies to help them select credible sources for their research papers and helps them understand how critical reading assignments they may have completed earlier in the semester have prepared them for the difficult task

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