A Radical Step: Implementing A Critical Information Literacy Model.

Students enter the classroom with their own experiences as users of information. This is a common ground about using and finding information. Information itself should be viewed as social construct used to transfer ideas. The article focuses on information literacy model as applied to the research paper component a first-year composition course. It is created with a purpose that can be evaluated and judged. In this model, students work in such a manner as if they are prepared to make predictive judgments about the information they will need.