Running Backwards from the Finish Line: A New Concept for Bibliographic Instruction
Raymond G. McInnis, Dal S. Symes · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 1991
INTHIS ARTICLE, WE SUGGEST a means of developing a more secure foundation for a theory of bibliographic instruction (BI).Three forms of inquiry-research, reading, and writing-are presented as interdependent and inseparable.U p to now, BI's theoretical underpinnings have been too limited.This discussion argues that BI theory should incorporate schema theory, composition theory, and discipline-specific vocabularies.Attention is also given to the idea of the bibliographic citation as a concept symbol.