Information Literacy
This page is about the Information Literacy outcome. To me, it means finding good sources and knowing if I can trust them. It also means using them the right way. Before this class, I just used the first thing I found on Google. Now I look for better sources and think about who wrote them. I also learned how to give credit for other people’s ideas. On this page, you will see how I used these skills in my TikTok research. You will also see how they help me in real life, like knowing what to believe online.
This is my research proposal for ENC1102, and it shows how I worked on the Information Literacy outcome. My question was how college students use what they learn in writing class when they make TikTok videos. To answer it, I had to find good sources. I used scholarly ones, like Bitzer, Yancey, and Wardle, and a newer book about writing and social media. I also found a study about how TikTok works. Each source helped me see what experts already knew and what was missing. I also had to think about how to find TikToks the right way. I will use hashtags like #studytok and #collegelife, and I will not share usernames or faces to protect people’s privacy. I cited all my sources in MLA, and I was honest about using AI to help with my draft. This helps me in real life too. Now when I see something online, I stop and think about where it came from before I believe it.
Reading Response 10: Denny and Clark: I am looking at five TikTok videos from college students for my research essay. They include study tips and day in the life stuff along with explanations of how they create their content. My goal is to find rhetorical strategies that undergrad students use and connect that to what we learn in writing classes.
The color coding part from the reading stood out to me because it makes things easy to spot right away. Positive and negative comments get different colors so you can tell them apart fast. I want to try something similar with my notes on these videos.
Maybe blue for audience appeals and green for pathos then yellow for ethos. Pink could work for the specific TikTok things like sounds or captions. Once I go through all five I can look back and see what colors are used most often. It seems important not to pick just the examples that fit best since there are only five videos total. I think focusing on things that appear in more than one video will help with that.
This is a short response I wrote while planning my research essay, and it shows how I worked on the Information Literacy outcome. For my essay, I am looking at five TikToks made by college students, like study tips, day in the life videos, and videos where creators explain how they make their content. In one of our readings, I liked how the writer used colors to sort comments so they were easy to spot. I decided to try this with my own notes. I will use blue for audience, green for pathos, yellow for ethos, and pink for TikTok things like sounds and captions. After I watch all five videos, I can see which colors show up the most. I also learned that I should not just pick the examples that fit my ideas best. Since I only have five videos, I will focus on things that show up in more than one. To me, that is a big part of information literacy. It is not just about finding information. It is also about sorting it and being fair with it. This helps me in real life too, because I try not to believe something just because it agrees with what I already think.
