Applies and communicates the information to others in appropriate ways
The Communicate pillar focuses on your academic 'voice' and concentrates on how you create and communicate through your academic writing, dialogue and debate. It's all about sharing your work, research and ideas with others and acknowledging where you have found supporting evidence so that you can present your work in an ethical way.
Through the development of these skills you will improve your understanding of the power of communication and the importance of using different approaches for different audiences within and outside the University. This may include the use of posters, presentations, blogs, essays, reports, reflective pieces and portfolios, for example.
The pages in the menu to the left, outline the skills and competencies you could expect to develop at each level, and should demonstrate how you scaffold and build these skills over your time at university.
It's worth remembering that the levels used in the Information Literacy Framework do not necessarily correspond directly to your year of study; you can be a beginner in some of the skills even if you are in your final year of study. We have given the following as a guide:
Beginner: Skills expected to be developed by someone new to, or returning to University level study after a break in education.
Novice: Skills that build upon the Beginner level and that demonstrate an increased confidence and understanding.
Intermediate: By the Intermediate level you are developing higher level skills. For example, you may be expected to demonstrate some or all of these by the end of the second year of an undergraduate programme.
Advanced: These are more advanced skills expected to be developed by the end of the third year of an undergraduate programme, for example.
Expert: The expert level skills would be expected to be developed by the end of a final year undergraduate or taught postgraduate programme.
We have a range of tools to help you develop your Information Literacy skills. They may be workshops you can attend, guides we produce in the Library, resources we pay for you to be able to use, or further reading. Take a look at the Tools to Help page in the left hand menu.