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Thinking Globally, Composing Locally

Rethinking Online Writing in the Age of the Global Internet

Edited by Rich Rice and Kirk St.Amant
Utah State University Press

Thinking Globally, Composing Locally explores how writing and its pedagogy should adapt to the ever-expanding environment of international online communication.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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A Mission for Development

Utah Universities and the Point Four Program in Iran

Utah State University Press

Tells the remarkable story of faculty from three Utah universities who lived and worked in Iran as part of the Point Four Program,  reexamining the rise and fall of the US-Iranian alliance and exploring the roles that American universities played in international development during the Cold War.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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The Embodied Playbook

Writing Practices of Student-Athletes

Utah State University Press

The Embodied Playbook discovers a new approach to understanding student literacy in a surprising place: the university athletics department. Through analysis of a yearlong case study of the men’s basketball team at the University of North Georgia, J. Michael Rifenburg shows that a deeper and more refined understanding of how humans learn through physical action can help writing instructors reach a greater range of students.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Wicked, Incomplete, and Uncertain

User Support in the Wild and the Role of Technical Communication

Utah State University Press

Author Jason Swarts shows how to document technologies that may hybridize into forms that not even their designers would have anticipated and offers insight into the evolving role of a technical writer.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Rhetor Response

A Theory and Practice of Literary Affordance

Utah State University Press

Rhetor Response introduces the concept and pedagogical applications of “literary affordances”—the ways in which readers “use” and integrate literature into their own writing or lives.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Teaching Professional and Technical Communication

A Practicum in a Book

Utah State University Press

The essays in this volume provide theoretical and applied discussions about the teaching of professional and technical communication.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Slender Man Is Coming

Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet

Utah State University Press

An unprecedented folkloric take on Slender Man, analyzing him within the framework of contemporary legend studies, “creepypastas,” folk belief, and children’s culture.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Teaching Readers in Post-Truth America

Utah State University Press

Teaching Readers in Post-Truth America is an invaluable source of support for writing instructors striving to prepare their students to resist post-truth rhetoric and participate in an information-rich, divisive democratic society.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues

Utah State University Press

Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues offers a framework for theorizing ethics in digital and networked media.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Key Theoretical Frameworks

Teaching Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century

Utah State University Press

Drawing on social justice methodologies and cultural studies scholarship, this book offers new curricular and pedagogical approaches to teaching technical communication.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Legend Tripping

A Contemporary Legend Casebook

Utah State University Press

Contributors show how legend trips can express humanity’s interest in the frontier between life and death and the fascination with the possibility of personal contact with the supernatural or spiritual.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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The Writer's Style

A Rhetorical Field Guide

Utah State University Press

Designed to help all writers learn to use style as a rhetorical tool, taking into account audience, purpose, context, and occasion.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Opera and its Voices in Utah

Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection
  • Copyright year: 2018
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Out in the Center

Public Controversies and Private Struggles

Utah State University Press

These essays address how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, faith, multilingualism, and learning differences, along with their intersections, challenge those who inhabit writing centers and engage in their conversations.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Provocations of Virtue

Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing

Utah State University Press

Provocations of Virtue explores the indispensable role of writing teachers and scholars in counteracting the polarized, venomous, “post-truth” character of contemporary public argument.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Defining, Locating, and Addressing Bullying in the WPA Workplace

Utah State University Press

Contributors to this collection share their personal stories and analyze varieties of collegial malevolence they have experienced as WPAs.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Planting the Anthropocene

Rhetorics of Natureculture

Utah State University Press

A rhetorical look into the world of industrial tree planting in Canada that engages the themes of nature, culture, and environmental change.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Re/Writing the Center

Approaches to Supporting Graduate Students in the Writing Center

Utah State University Press

Re/Writing the Center illuminates how core writing center pedagogies and institutional arrangements are complicated by the need to create intentional, targeted support for advanced graduate writers.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Next Steps

New Directions for/in Writing about Writing

Utah State University Press

The first collection of teacher and student voices on a writing pedagogy that puts expert knowledge at the center of the writing classroom.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Multimodal Composing

Strategies for Twenty-First-Century Writing Consultations

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Radical Writing Center Praxis

A Paradigm for Ethical Political Engagement

Utah State University Press

Radical Writing Center Praxis calls for a paradigm change in writing centers, imagining a field whose very reason for being is to facilitate justice and peace.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Re/Orienting Writing Studies

Queer Methods, Queer Projects

Utah State University Press

An exploration of the intersections among queer theory, rhetoric, and research methods in writing studies.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Rhetorical Speculations

The Future of Rhetoric, Writing, and Technology

Edited by Scott Sundvall
Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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Sojourning in Disciplinary Cultures

A Case Study of Teaching Writing in Engineering

Utah State University Press

Describes a multiyear project to develop a writing curriculum within the College of Engineering that satisfied the cultural needs of both compositionists and engineers at a large R1 University.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Bridging the Multimodal Gap

From Theory to Practice

Utah State University Press

Bridging the Multimodal Gap addresses multimodality scholarship and its use in the composition classroom.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Institutional Ethnography

A Theory of Practice for Writing Studies Researchers

Utah State University Press

Michelle LaFrance introduces the theories, rhetorical frames, and methods that ground and animate institutional ethnography.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Writing Across Cultures

Utah State University Press

Writing Across Culturesinvites both new and experienced teachers to examine the ways in which their training has—or has not—prepared them for dealing with issues of race, power, and authority in their writing classrooms.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Reformers, Teachers, Writers

Curricular and Pedagogical Inquiries

Utah State University Press

Neal Lerner explores the distinction between curriculum and pedagogy in writing studies—and the ways in which failing to attend to that distinction results in the failure of educational reform.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Weathering the Storm

Independent Writing Programs in the Age of Fiscal Austerity

Utah State University Press

Weathering the Storm assesses the socioeconomic and political conditions that have surrounded the rise of independent writing programs (IWPs) and departments.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Explanation Points

Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition

Utah State University Press

A curated collection of disciplinary knowledge and advice for publishing in rhetoric and composition.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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