About WI+RE

Design for learning, led by learners.

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WI+RE is a learner-led community at UCLA focused on helping everyone succeed in their writing and research projects.

The WI+RE team leverages a learner-centered design toolkit to create and continually improve open online learning modules. We also experiment and reflect on our process in the WI+RE sandbox, and share the principles behind our work in our manifesto, the WI+RE way.

Highlights

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Award Winning and Peer Reviewed Open Educational Resources

3 Ways to Find Research Opportunities
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Annotated Bibliographies
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Avoiding Plagiarism and Citing Sources
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Beginning Your Research Journey
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Brainstorm Your Research Interests
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Breaking Down Academic Articles
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Breaking Down Your Prompt
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Crafting a Research Question
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Developing Research Questions and Creating Keywords
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Expanding Perspectives in Your Search
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Finding Images with the UCLA Library
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Finding Scholarly Articles
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Finding a Research Mentor or Project
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Getting Started with Research at UCLA
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Overcoming Writer's Block
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Positionality & Research
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Primary and Secondary Sources
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Research Logistics
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Scholarly vs. Popular Sources
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Start with your Questions
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Using Google Scholar
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Writing a Literature Review
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Publications and Presentations

2021
Poster Presentation Scenarios for Success: Building High-Impact Library Collaborations

AAC&U’s 2021 Virtual Conference on General Education, Pedagogy, and Assessment. By Gayle R. Schaub, Hazel A. McClure, Doug Worsham, Caitlin Richardson. Feb 11, 2021.

2020
Book chapter More Than an Internship: A Student-led Learning Community for Instructional Design.

Engaging Students Through Campus Libraries - High Impact Learning Models. By Jen Pierre, Taylor Harper, Caitlin Meyer, Kian Ravaei, Doug Worsham. 2020-06.

2019
Webinar Getting started with student-centered design

Florida Library Association Academic Instruction & Information Literacy Roundtable, Online Webinar. By Doug Worsham, Kian Ravaei. Jul 30, 2019.

Conference Presentation WI+RE: Creating a learner-led instructional design team in your library

American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.. By Doug Worsham. Jun 24, 2019.

Better Together: Student-Led Collaborative Media Creation

LOEX 2019, Minneapolis, MN. By Renee Romero, Doug Worsham, Annie Pho. May 11, 2019.

interview Wheel of Sources—March 2019 Site of the Month Interview

ACRL Instruction Section Website. By Kian Ravaei, Emilia Marcyk, Doug Worsham. Mar 01, 2019.

2018
Pre-conference workshop Let’s Build Something! A Rapid-Prototyping Instructional Design Workshop

2018 CARL Conference, The Academic Library in Times of Change, Redwood City, CA. By Dani Brecher Cook, Doug Worsham. Apr 13, 2018.

Lightning Talk Flipping Engineering Information Literacy Instruction

Southern California Instruction Librarians Works, Culver City, CA. By Liz Cheney, Tony Aponte, Doug Worsham. Feb 23, 2018.

2017
2016
Poster Presentation Engaging Campus Partners to Develop a Hybrid Toolkit for Student Success

National Diversity in Libraries Conference, Los Angeles, CA. By Simon Lee, Renee Romero, Doug Worsham. Aug 11, 2016.

Five student designers on the WI+RE team collaborate on a video shoot. Text overlay: WI+RE.