Information Literacy for Students: An Introduction

• Features a unique step-by-step method that can be applied to any research project
• Includes research insights from professionals, along with review exercises, insiders' tips and tools, search screen images utilized by students, and more 
• Encourages active inquiry-based learning through the inclusion of various study questions and exercises 
• Provides students with effective research strategies to serve them through their academic years and professional careers
• Ensures accessibility and a strong instructional approach due to authorship by a librarian and award-winning English professor

Michael C. Alewine is the Outreach and Distance Education Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He teaches information-literacy courses and research seminars, and he has published and presented on information literacy, student learning and motivation, and teaching and learning in online environments.

Mark Canada is Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor of English at Indiana University Kokomo. A 2008 recipient of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors' Award for Excellence in Teaching, Dr. Canada is author of Literature and Journalism in Antebellum America (2011), and editor of Literature and Journalism: Inspirations, Intersections, and Inventions from Ben Franklin to Stephen Colbert (2013) and Out of the West: Notes from Thomas Wolfe’s Final Western Journey (2014).