How to be a peer research consultant : a guide for librarians and students / Maglen Epstein and Bridget Draxler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Maglen.

Draxler, Bridget, 1984- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peer teaching.

Education, Higher--Research.

Education, Higher.

Tutors and tutoring.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 96 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Association of College & Research Libraries, 2022.

Summary:

In seven highly readable chapters, How to Be a Peer Research Consultant provides focused support for anyone preparing undergraduate students to serve as peer research consultants, whether you refer to these student workers as research tutors, reference assistants, or research helpers. Inside you'll find valuable training material to help student researchers develop metacognitive, transferable research skills and habits, as well as foundational topics like what research looks like in different disciplines, professionalism and privacy, ethics, the research process, inclusive research consultations, and common research assignments. It concludes with an appendix containing 30 activities, discussion questions, and written reflection prompts to complement the content covered in each chapter, designed to be easily printed or copied from the book.

Contents:

Introduction for Librarians

Introduction for Students

Chapter 1. What is reseach?

Chapter 2. Professionalism and privacy

Chapter 3. Ethics of research

Chapter 4. The research process

Chapter 5. The peer research consultation

Chapter 6. Inclusive research consultations

Chapter 7. Common research assignments

Appendix. Activities

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Epstein, Maglen How to Be a Peer Research Consultant:

ISBN:

9780838937631

0838937632

OCLC:

1293241087