Perspectives on … Librarians as Writing Instructors: Using Paraphrasing Exercises to Teach Beginning Information Literacy Students

This article promotes the use of paraphrasing exercises as add-ons to information literacy instruction in order for students to gain proficiency in thinking critically about a source and expressing their own voice with the convention of parenthetical citation. Examples are provided for development and assessment of a paraphrasing exercise to promote the effective utilization of information.