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Friday, May 24 • 09:00 - 09:45
Encountering the university: First-year students and the challenges of reading scholarly materials

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Are scholarly articles too challenging for first-year university students? This presentation will highlight the results of our qualitative study investigating the reading practices and attitudes of first-year students and faculty expectations of and support for reading. Can librarians help students feel a little less alienated by academic discourse?

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Glenda Insua

Reference & Liaison Librarian, Associate Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
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Annie Armstrong

University of Illinois at Chicago
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Catherine Lantz

University of Illinois at Chicago


Friday May 24, 2019 09:00 - 09:45 CDT
2M70 - Manitoba Hall