Where Have You Been? - Blume Library - St. Mary's University

Was published in Time, Newsweek orUS News & World ReportScholarlyND0101 students: 61%EN3300 students: 50%Non-ScholarlyND0101 students: 14%EN3300 students: 12%The students were asked to identify for each of eightdifferent types of resources whether the source was likely tobe “scholarly,” “non-scholarly,” “can’t be determined,” or “don’tknow.”Only 14% of the ND0101 correctly identified asource that “was published in Time, Newsweek or US News &World Report” as non-scholarly while only 12% of theAdvanced Composition students correctly identified this item.Among the ND0101 students, 61% indicated this type ofsource was likely to be scholarly, while 50% of the AdvancedComposition students indicated it was scholarly. Among ournew students, our results for this question were actually betterthan the findings of the FYILLAA institutions, which reportedthat 78% of their freshmen thought this was a scholarlysource.25