"Research Papers Have Always Seemed Very Daunting": Information Literacy Narratives and the Student Research Experience.

The article presents an overview of narratives which college students wrote to discuss their experiences of locating, evaluating, and using information in the context of academic research and to discuss the challenges of writing research papers. A discussion of an analysis which was conducted on the narratives to demonstrate how they enhance the understanding of the college research experience and enable students to raise relevant questions in the classroom is presented.