This ENGH 101 lesson introduces students to how to evaluate sources. It begins with a Kahoot and then discusses aspects of evaluation like authority and accuracy. It uses 4 moves and a habit as a way to evaluate sources.
This lesson, which includes options for online and face-to-face modalities, incorporates a news story about K-Pop to demonstrate creating a research question, constructing a search strategy, and finding relevant sources. Students are asked to work individually to create a research topic that is less than six degrees separated from K-Pop, then work in groups to compare keywords and brainstorm together. Finally, those groups come back together to find a scholarly source related to their question.
In this lesson plan, students learn about the types of information, as well as what sources are available for those information types. After that, students listen to a short news story and break up into small groups to establish keywords and research questions based on that story. They then share out what their group recorded. Options for a worksheet and/or a whiteboard activity are included.
This plan, which was used across BUS 103 sections in Spring 2020, introduces students to the basics of business research. After discussing source types, students learn about professional business sources and then practice in groups by comparing three major databases. The session concludes with a presentation from each group on the database they were assigned and strategies they generated.
This lesson introduces students to the BEAM method of source evaluation, as a part of evaluating sources rhetorically in ENGH 302. The lesson includes a brief introduction to the method, then goes into a source categorization activity where students apply the method in class. The lesson plan includes versions for 50- and 75-minute lessons, as well as a worksheet option for assessment purposes.