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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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Walsh, Lynda – Written Communication, 2013
Writing scholars interested in stakeholder attitudes need ways to reconstruct them from archives because (a) interview/survey studies are not always feasible (particularly in historical work) and (b) the question/answer format of these studies may exclude key attitudes that emerge in unprompted expressions of opinion. Accordingly, this article…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Animals, Wildlife, Archives
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Walsh, Lynda – Written Communication, 2010
In this article, the author proposes a methodology for the rhetorical analysis of scientific, technical, mathematical, and engineering (STEM) discourse based on the common topics (topoi) of this discourse. Beginning with work by Miller, Prelli, and other rhetoricians of STEM discourse--but factoring in related studies in cognitive linguistics--she…
Descriptors: Science Education, Technology Education, Engineering Education, Mathematics Education
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Walsh, Lynda – Written Communication, 2009
This article reports the results of a study analyzing the interaction of administrative genres and stakeholder beliefs in the Mexican Wolf Blue Range Reintroduction Project (MWBRRP) in New Mexico and Arizona. The author examines this interaction through an analysis of a set of 944 recorded public comments (with administrative responses) concerning…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Beliefs, Discourse Analysis, Content Analysis
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Secor, Marie; Walsh, Lynda – Written Communication, 2004
In 1996, New York University professor of physics Alan Sokal wrote a parody of an academic article he titled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity." This parody escaped detection by the editors and was published in the journal "Social Text." Sokal outed his own hoax in the academic magazine "Lingua…
Descriptors: Parody, Rhetoric, Scholarship, Postmodernism