I can recommend Mandy Lupton’s recent article : “Evidence, argument and social responsibility: first year students’ experiences of information literacy when researching an essay” Higher Education Research and Development 27(4) Dec 2008 399-414.
It describes a “phenomenographic study of undergraduate experiences” and relates information literacy to the process of creating an essay. Mandy identifies 3 hieerarchical categories – seeking evidence, developing an argument and learning as social responsibility. She concludes that IL incorporates both generic and contextual elements and I think this study is very helpful for those of us involved in developing integrated IL interventions.

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http://www.informaworld.c…13423834~db=all

Pat Gannon-Leary and I are in the process of writing a workshop for library staff on how we can support researchers who are writing for publication. We’re planning to present participants with different perspectives, so we’re gathering data at the moment from researchers at different stages in the research process, from journal editors and from library staff. We are asking each of them “one thing” they would like to know (researchers)/ would recommend (editors)/ would do to help (library staff) in the writing for publication process. Hopefully we shall end up with some useful research data as well as an interesting workshop.
If anyone reads this post and would like to contribute, then I’d be delighted to hear from you.