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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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Ross, P. M.; Burgin, Shelley; Aitchison, Claire; Catterall, Janice – Journal of Learning Design, 2011
Academic and scientific literacy experts agree that becoming literate in an academic discipline involves coordinating language learning, and thinking in increasingly sophisticated ways to enable participation in discipline practices of knowledge construction. Despite this knowledge, understanding of writing pedagogies in tertiary science are in…
Descriptors: Expertise, Focus Groups, Intellectual Disciplines, Scientific Literacy