We’re All Mixed Up: Collaborating to Support the

Acquisition of Academic LiteracyStacy Kastner, MSU Writing Center Amanda Powers, MSU Libraries Hillary Richardson, MSU

Libraries

THE

WC

@

RESE

ARCH

SE

RVIC

ES

Invitations

Cross Talk

One-to-OneMethods! The.

Literature.Review.

Braided Process

In 2004, Rolf Norgaard called for a hybrid approach to information literacy education, arguing that “writing theory and pedagogy can and should have a constitutive influence on our conception of information literacy.” For Norgaard, such a pedagogy requires “a partnership” characterized by “genuine intellectual engagement.” On college and university campuses, it is not uncommon for libraries, composition programs, and writing centers to establish partnerships in pursuit of this goal: facilitating the acquisition of research and writing as processes not meant to “unbraid” but as complex, demanding, and interdependent activities (Fister).

ACRLAuthority Is Constructed and Contextual

Information Creation as a Process

Information Has Value

Research as Inquiry

Scholarship as Conversation

Searching as Strategic Exploration

ACRLIn addition, this Framework draws significantly upon the concept of metaliteracy, which offers a renewed vision of information literacy as an overarching set of abilities in which students are consumers and creators of information who can participate successfully in collaborative spaces. Metaliteracy demands behavioral, affective, cognitive, and metacognitive engagement with the information ecosystem. This Framework depends on these core ideas of metaliteracy, with special focus on metacognition, or critical self-reflection, as crucial to becoming more self-directed in that rapidly changing ecosystem.

CuriosityOpennessEngagementCreativityPersistenceResponsibilityFlexibilityMetacognition

WPA N

CTE NW

P

Rhetorical knowledge

Critical thinking Writing processes Knowledge of

conventions Abilities to compose

in multiple environments

WPA N

CTE NW

P

WPA N

CTE NW

P

Collaborations

• Undergraduate Workshops• Classroom Sessions/Workshops• Graduate Workshops• Summer Development Program Skills Lab Experiment• Dissertation Jump Start

Collaborations

Collaborations

Data-Based Dialogue

Brainstorming Sessions

How do or how should or how could we braid “research” and

“writing”?

How do or how should or how could we braid

“The Library” and “The Writing

Center”?

What’s tech got to do with it?

What’s computing got to do with it?