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Traditional literacy, which emphasizes on people's skills of reading, writing, and calculating, will not be sufficient for citizens in the 21st century. The information society/Internet intensifies the need for information literacy in higher education. Many academic libraries in college or university offer course-integrated instruction of information literacy program to fit the needs of educational reformation. An information literate citizen is a person who must be able to recognize when information is needed and has the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information. How to prepare college students to be infor¬mation literate is a crucial goal in today's higher education. The paper is not only reviews the educational information literacy models and applies information lit-eracy conception to design the course of " Data Collection and Writing Research Papers".
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