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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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Olson, Gary A. – Composition Studies, 2000
Discusses the author's 1991 conference speech that argued that if postmodern discourse has taught us anything, it is that "rhetoric" is at the center of all knowledge making, even in the sciences. Addresses the future of composition as a discipline and whether scholars in the field will position themselves as "enemies" or as "adversaries" in this…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Improvement, English Instruction, Futures (of Society)
Goggin, Maureen Daly; Miller, Susan Kay – Composition Studies, 2000
Examines positions held by those challenging the status quo in composition and dispels apparent misconceptions about their goals and motivations. Outlines the discontinuities between earlier "abolitionist" calls for reconceiving the discipline and recent "new abolitionist" arguments to illustrate that in these newer calls lies the potential for…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Rhetoric, Teacher Attitudes