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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Carter, Susan – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2012
Using mythology as a generative matrix, this article investigates the relationship between knowledge, words, embodiment and gender as they play out in academic writing's voice and, in particular, in doctoral voice. The doctoral thesis is defensive, a performance seeking admittance into discipline scholarship. Yet in finding its scholarly voice,…
Descriptors: Mythology, Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition), Doctoral Dissertations
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Carter, Susan – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2009
The mnemonic techniques of the past, like mind maps, metaphors, and narrative theory, offer research students, especially doctoral candidates, another cognitive support. These techniques pre-date computers (and possibly literacy), so shift cognitive organization from the page or the computer screen to the mind. This article compares early memory…
Descriptors: Mnemonics, Information Management, Cognitive Structures, Memory