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Research Instruction at the Point of need: information literacy and online tutorials
The authors describe their collaboration in the teaching of an online, research-based advanced composition class. They describe why, in addition to using the instructional media provided by libraries to help students navigate fee-based subscription databases, they developed their own instructional media. The authors found that most tutorials are either too general to be effective given the specificity of a particular assignment or simply not used at the point of need. The tutorials described in the article are designed to guide students to information sources that they need to complete the assignment they are working on. The focused nature of these tutorials stands in contrast to generic tours and tutorials.