Academic Strategies is a practical, “hands-on” course designed to teach students how to develop and apply effective strategies and techniques for academic success in college courses.
Students are taught how to use sources of information, consolidate information, and review information effectively and appropriately.
This infoguide highlights some of the resources available here at RIT to help students through their information literacy.
*Please do not use generative AI for this course.
Information literacy is a cumulation of skills around finding, evaluating, and using sources. There are many different types of information literacy, such as: data literacy, social media literacy, academic research literacy.
This Infoguide focuses on aiding students in finding academic sources, evaluating them for their projects, and using them ethically.
We have to think critically about how to use AI.
AI is fun and can be helpful in planning out a research project, but it isn’t good at finding actual sources, creating academic worthy information, or creating citations.
Creates an additional step as all content must be verified and cited separately
Produces incorrect or misinformation
Training data is not current or up to date
Do not use AI for your projects in this course.
Use of RIT resources is reserved for current RIT students, faculty
and staff for academic and teaching purposes only.
Please contact your librarian with any questions.
