Scholarship Practice and Leadership Essay

Scholarship Practice and Leadership Essay

Resources: Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership Presentation, SPL Essay Grading Rubric, Graphic Organizers, located on the Writing and Critical Thinking page

Review the Electronic Reserve Readings articles and the Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership essay grading rubric on the COM/705 course page.

Create a matrix or mind map as you read the articles to help you prepare to write your analysis of how information literacy relates to the SPL model.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper analyzing how information literacy relates to each aspect of the scholarship, practice, and leadership model in a specific profession or discipline.

Address four out of five of the following elements in your essay:

• What would a leader look like with no scholarly background?
• What would a practitioner look like with no leadership skills?
• What if scholars had minimal access to information literacy materials?
• What is something that you’re doing that relates to information literacy? How does it connect to the SPL model?
• Describe an instance when you were aware of personal or organizational transformation involving information literacy and explain the principles that allowed this transformation to happen.

Include four sources in your paper. Three sources must be from the assigned Electronic Reserve Readings articles. The fourth source must be from a peer-reviewed source of your choice.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Self-assess your paper using the Scholarship, Practice, and Leadership Essay Grading Rubric to ensure you meet the assignment requirements.