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Mobility Work in Composition

Utah State University Press

Mobility Work in Composition explores work in composition from the framework of a mobilities paradigm that takes mobility to be the norm rather than the exception to a norm of stasis and stability.
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Mapping Racial Literacies

College Students Write about Race and Segregation

Utah State University Press

Based on a mixed methods study of students’ writing in a first-year-writing course themed around racial identities and language varieties at St. John’s University, Mapping Racial Literacies shows college student writing that directly confronts lived experiences of segregation—and, overwhelmingly, of resegregation.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Writing Their Bodies

Restoring Rhetorical Relations at the Carlisle Indian School

Utah State University Press

Writing Their Bodies analyzes pedagogical philosophies and curricular materials through the perspective of written and visual student texts created during the school’s first three-year term.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Old Deseret Live Stock Company

A Stockman's Memoir

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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Beyond Conversation

Collaboration and the Production of Writing

Utah State University Press

Collaboration was an important area of study in writing for many years, but interest faded as scholars began to assume that those working within writing studies already “got it.” In Beyond Conversation, William Duffy revives the topic and connects it to the growing interest in collaboration within digital and materialist rhetoric to demonstrate that not only do the theory, pedagogy, and practice of collaboration need more study but there is also much to be learned from the doing of collaboration.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Folklore and Social Media

Utah State University Press

Ten years after the publication of the foundational edited collection Folklore and the Internet, Andrew Peck and Trevor J. Blank bring an essential update of scholarship to the study of digital folklore, Folklore and Social Media.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Sixteen Teachers Teaching

Two-Year College Perspectives

Utah State University Press

Sixteen Teachers Teaching is a warmly personal, full-access tour into the classrooms and teaching practices of sixteen distinguished two-year college English professors.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Black or Right

Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics

Utah State University Press

Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics explores notions of Blackness in white institutional—particularly educational—spaces.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Style and the Future of Composition Studies

Utah State University Press

Style and the Future of CompositionStudies explores style’s potential for informing how students are taught to write well and its power as a tool for analyzing the language and discourse practices of writers and speakers in a range of contexts.
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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On Teacher Neutrality

Politics, Praxis, and Performativity

Utah State University Press

On Teacher Neutralityexplores the consequences of ideological arguments about teacher neutrality in the context of higher education.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Things We Carry

Strategies for Recognizing and Negotiating Emotional Labor in Writing Program Administration

Utah State University Press

Emotional labor is not adequately talked about or addressed by writing program administrators. The Things We Carry makes this often-invisible labor visible, demonstrates a variety of practical strategies to navigate it reflectively, and opens a path for further research.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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No Place To Call Home

The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2005
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Meaning of Folklore

The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes

Utah State University Press

Compilation of Dundes's most important analytical work, including many widely unavailable essays. Edited by Simon Bronner.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Unruly Audience

Folk Interventions in Popular Media

Utah State University Press

Unruly Audience explores grassroots appropriations of familiar media texts from film, television, stand-up comedy, popular music, advertising, and tourism.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Transforming Ethos

Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing

Utah State University Press

In Transforming Ethos Rosanne Carlo synthesizes philosophy, rhetorical theory, and composition theory to clarify the role of ethos and its potential for identification and pedagogy for writing studies.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Different Drummers

Military Culture and Its Discontents

Edited by Tad Tuleja
Utah State University Press

Different Drummers explores the disjunction between organizational solidarity and individual pushback in military organizations, examining how members of the armed forces express ambivalent attitudes about their service.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Interrogating Gendered Pathologies

Utah State University Press

Interrogating Gendered Pathologies points out and critiques unjust patterns of pathology.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America

Utah State University Press

In Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America, Don E. Albrecht visits rural communities that have traditionally been dependent on a variety of goods-producing industries, explores what has happened as employment in these industries has declined, and provides a path by which they can build a vibrant twenty-first-century economy.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Learning from the Lived Experiences of Graduate Student Writers

Utah State University Press

A timely resource for understanding and resolving some of the issues graduate students face, particularly as higher education begins to pay more critical attention to graduate student success.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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After Plato

Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing

Edited by John Duffy and Lois Agnew
Utah State University Press

Explores the diversity of ethical perspectives animating contemporary writing studies and examines the place of ethics in writing classrooms, writing centers, writing across the curriculum programs, prison education classes, and other settings.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Farm

A Multimodal Reader

Utah State University Press

Explores the culture of agriculture through a diverse and multicultural collection of fiction, poetry, essays, art, music, recipes, and folklore.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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"What the Railroad Will Bring Us"

The Legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad Corporations

Utah State University Press

In volume 25 of the Arrington Lecture Series, Richard White discusses the transcontinental railroad’s impact on Utah’s environment, culture, and political atmosphere.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Redeeming a People

The Critical Role of Historical Examination in Moving Cultural and Moral Trajectories

Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection

In volume 24 of the Arrington Lecture Series, Darius Gray, who joined the LDS Church in 1964, marks the history of the years that preceded the leadership of the LDS Church’s revelation allowing all worthy male members, regardless of race, to receive the priesthood.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Metabolizing Capital

Writing, Information, and the Biophysical Environment

Utah State University Press

Metabolizing Capital outlines a critical ecological framework to guide the theorization of writing and rhetoric in the dynamic contexts of Web 3.0 and environmental crisis.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Teaching Mindful Writers

Utah State University Press

Teaching Mindful Writers introduces new writing teachers to a learning cycle that will help students become self-directed writers through planning, practicing, revising, and reflecting.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Rewriting Partnerships

Community Perspectives on Community-Based Learning

Utah State University Press

Rewriting Partnerships offers concrete strategies for creating more community-responsive partnerships at the classroom level as well as at the level of program and research design.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Talking Back

Senior Scholars and Their Colleagues Deliberate the Past, Present, and Future of Writing Studies

Utah State University Press

In Talking Back, a veritable Who’s Who of writing studies scholars deliberate on intellectual traditions, current practices, and important directions for the future.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Conceptions of Literacy

Graduate Instructors and the Teaching of First-Year Composition

Utah State University Press

Conceptions of Literacy proposes a theoretical framework for examining new graduate student instructors’ preexisting attitudes and beliefs about literacy.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Presumed Incompetent II

Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia

Utah State University Press

The courageous and inspiring personal narratives and empirical studies in Presumed Incompetent II name formidable obstacles and systemic biases that all women faculty encounter in their higher education careers.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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The Work of Teaching Writing

Learning from Fiction, Film, and Drama

Utah State University Press

Joseph Harris explores how the work of teaching writing has been depicted in novels, films, and plays to reveal what teachers can learn from studying not just theories of discourse, rhetoric, or pedagogy but also accounts of the lived experience of teaching writing.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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