Making Sense of Student Source Selection: Using the WHY Method to Analyze Authority in Student Research Bibliographies

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1.	Title	Title of document	Making Sense of Student Source Selection: Using the WHY Method to Analyze Authority in Student Research Bibliographies
2.	Creator	Author's name, affiliation, country	Frank Lambert; Frank Lambert is Assistant Professor &amp; Program Coordinator at Middle Tennessee State University, email: <a href="mailto:frank.lambert@mtsu.edu">frank.lambert@mtsu.edu</a>.
2.	Creator	Author's name, affiliation, country	Mary Thill; Mary Thill is Reference Coordinator and Humanities Librarian at Northeastern Illinois University, email: <a href="mailto:m-thill@neiu.edu">m-thill@neiu.edu</a>.
2.	Creator	Author's name, affiliation, country	James W. Rosenzweig; James W. Rosenzweig is Education Librarian at Eastern Washington University, email: <a href="mailto:jrosenzweig@ewu.edu">jrosenzweig@ewu.edu</a>.
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4.	Description	Abstract	In a follow-up to a pilot study published in 2019, the authors collected student research papers from English Composition II courses at three public comprehensive universities from different regions in the United States to classify and compare the sources selected by students at each institution. Working with a representative sample of 712 bibliographic references, the authors used a research-tested taxonomy called The WHY Method to classify each source by three key attributes—Who wrote each source, How it was edited, and whY it was published. The results of this cross-institutional study indicate that student source selection is affected most powerfully by the variables of which institution a student attends, student age, and whether the student is a first-generation university student. Student GPA, gender, class ranking (freshman, sophomore, and so on), and ethnicity were not statistically predictive factors. This study establishes the importance of institutional context in how students construct authority and provides librarians with a tool that enables them to better understand and describe that context.
5.	Publisher	Organizing agency, location	Assn. of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association
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7.	Date	(YYYY-MM-DD)	2021-06-30
8.	Type	Status & genre	Peer-reviewed Article
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9.	Format	File format	PDF, HTML
10.	Identifier	Uniform Resource Identifier	https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/25013
10.	Identifier	Digital Object Identifier	https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.82.5.642
11.	Source	Title; vol., no. (year)	College & Research Libraries; Vol 82, No 5 (2021): July
12.	Language	English=en
13.	Relation	Supp. Files
14.	Coverage	Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.)
15.	Rights	Copyright and permissions	Copyright Frank Lambert, Mary Thill, James W. Rosenzweig This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.