Communication and Critical Thinking - Building Blocks to Information Literacy: This is a discussion. There will be two parts to this assignment.

First part is due Monday and the second as soon as the first two post arrives. Here is the assignment. If you use outside sources, reference them.

1. In two or three sentences, please summarize what you have learned about information literacy so far in your earlier courses and in this seminar.

2. Then explain how information literacy is a set of skills that builds or relies upon an expansion of communication and critical thinking skills. In other words, why are communication and critical thinking concepts needed for good information literacy?

For example, if good information literacy includes the ability to integrate materials from external sources into a persuasive paper that you are writing to an audience, how does good communication enhance that? Or for critical thinking, how does the ability to compare and contrast competing ideas lead to better information literacy?

3. Respond to at least two other student's post. As you read the other posts, you may want to look for postings to respond to that propose an especially interesting application of these ideas.