Research Guides: Designing Effective Research Assignments: Sample Assignments

Assignments from LCC Faculty

Thanks to LCC faculty for sharing assignment ideas. Contact us if you have an assignment idea to contribute.

Information Literacy Toolkit - Assignments (U of Texas)
Assignments to teach information literacy such as annotated bibliographies and research logs.
Community of Online Research Assignments
An open access resource for faculty and librarians.
Faculty Assignment Ideas (Buena Vista University)
Assignment ideas for a variety of disciplines.
Term Paper Alternatives (King's College)
Ideas for information-based assignments.

Factitious
A game for testing your skill at identifying fake and misleading news stories.
Web Literacy for Fact Checkers
An open textbook written by Mike Caulfield that teaches web media literacy.
News Literacy Project
Lesson plans and activities to help students become smart, active consumers of the news.
Faculty Toolkit for Evaluating Sources
Videos, handouts, and lessons developed by librarians at Portland Community College to teach source evaluation.
SIFT Course
Self-paced online course created by Michael Caufield to teach how to SIFT (Stop, Investigate the Source, Find Better Coverage, and Trace Claims, Quotes, and Media to the Original Context)
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This course shows you how to fact and source-check in five lessons, taking about 30 minutes apiece. The entire online curriculum is two and a half to three hours.

Students struggle to:

Assignment handouts help students meet these challenges and are important when students seek help from librarians and tutors.

Planning Checklist: Research Assignments
Use this checklist to plan or revise research assignments. Adapted from a handout from Maricopa Community College.
Transparent Assignments
Revise your assignment by applying the transparency framework (purpose, task, criteria).