Welcome to the OISE Library’s Critical Search Skills for Graduate Students! This series is designed for graduate students in education and social sciences who want to level up their literature searching skills while striving for critical and responsible information practices.
You can attend these sessions individually or as a complete series—choose the ones that best meet your searching needs.
This is Session 4: Implementing a Critical Citation Practice.
Citations are more than just an academic requirement for your assignments. They are an opportunity to situate yourself within the broader research landscape, and acknowledge the ideas that influence and support our own work.
Critical citation practices provide an opportunity to intentionally examine the voices that we center in our work and the voices that may be missing. This session will introduce the ideas and intentions that underly critical citation practices, taking into account the politics and practices which often underly academic and scholarly publishing landscapes.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Understand that citations are not neutral, and the impacts of your own citation practice.
- Examine your own positionality and how it may impact the ways that you assign intellectual authority in your searching.
- Consider different kinds of authority in your searching and source evaluation processes.
- Identify actionable steps for building your own critical citation practice.
This session consists of a series of librarian-led lectures, independent work periods, and discussion periods where you can reflect on your own citation practices.
If you have any questions or accessibility needs, please contact Mackenzie Blanchett at mackenzie.blanchett@utoronto.ca. We kindly ask that you provide as much advanced notice as possible.
Additional sessions: Check out the other sessions OISE Library’s Graduate Search Skills Series!
- Session 1: Turning Great Ideas into Effective Search Questions (Monday, January 27 OR Friday, January 31)
- Session 2: Fundamentals of Strategic Searching (Monday, February 10 OR Friday, February 14)
- Session 3: Untangling AI in the Literature Search Process (Tuesday, March 04 OR Friday, March 07)