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Writing Centers and Learning Commons
Staying Centered While Sharing Common Ground
Writing Centers and Learning Commons presents program administrators, directors, staff, and tutors with theoretical rationales, experiential journeys, and go-to practical designs and strategies for the many questions involved when writing centers find themselves operating in shared environments.
- Publication year: 2022
Composing Place
Digital Rhetorics for a Mobile World
Composing Place takes an innovative approach to engaging with the compositional affordances of mobile technologies.
- Publication year: 2022
Unwell Writing Centers
Searching for Wellness in Neoliberal Educational Institutions and Beyond
Unwell Writing Centers focuses on the inroads the wellness industry has made into higher education. Following graduate and undergraduate writing tutors during a particularly stressful period (2016–2019), Genie Nicole Giaimo examines how top-down and bottom-up wellness interventions are received and taken up by workers.
- Publication year: 2022
Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition
Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition investigates the implications of composition studies’ changing terminological and ideological landscape around language and nation for the professionalization of future university writing teachers-scholars.
- Publication year: 2023
Strangely Rhetorical
Composing Differently With Novelty Devices
Strangely Rhetorical establishes the groundwork for strangeness as a lens under the broader interdisciplinary umbrella of rhetoric and composition and shares a series of rhetorical devices for practically thinking about how compositions are made unique.
- Publication year: 2022
Making Administrative Work Visible
Data-Driven Advocacy for Understanding the Labor of Writing Program Administration
- Publication year: 2023
Failing Sideways
Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment
Failing Sideways is an innovative and fresh approach to assessment that intersects writing studies, educational measurement, and queer rhetorics.
- Publication year: 2023
A History of Utah Radicalism
Startling, Socialistic, and Decidedly Revolutionary
- Publication year: 2023
Professionalizing Multimodal Composition
Multimodal composition is becoming increasingly popular in university classrooms as faculty, students, and institutions come to recognize that old and new technologies have enabled, and even demanded, the use of more than one composing mode for communicating, solving problems, and keeping up with the latest discourse.
- Publication year: 2023
Sensemaking for Writing Programs and Writing Centers
In this collection writing program and writing center administrators from a range of academic institutions come together to explore their work through the lens of sensemaking.
- Publication year: 2023
Childfree and Happy
Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices
Childfree and Happy examines how millennia of reproductive beliefs (or doxa) have positioned women who choose not to have children as deviant or outside the norm.
- Publication year: 2023
Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, Second Edition
Weather, Climate Change, and Finding Deep Powder in Utah's Wasatch Mountains and Around the World
Utah has long claimed to have the greatest snow on Earth—the state itself has even trademarked the phrase. In Secrets of the Greatest Snow on Earth, Jim Steenburgh investigates Wasatch weather, exposing the myths, explaining the reality, and revealing how and why Utah’s powder lives up to its reputation.
- Publication year: 2023
Telling Stories
Perspectives on Longitudinal Writing Research
In Telling Stories, more than a dozen longitudinal writing researchers look beyond conventional project findings to story their work and, in doing so, offer otherwise unavailable glimpses into the logics and logistics of long-range studies of writing.
- Publication year: 2023
Reconstructing Response to Student Writing
A National Study from across the Curriculum
In Reconstructing Response to Student Writing Dan Melzer makes the argument that writing instructors should shift the construct so that peer response and student self-assessment are more central than teacher response.
- Publication year: 2023
The New Work of Writing Across the Curriculum
Diversity and Inclusion, Collaborative Partnerships, and Faculty Development
The New Work of Writing Across the Curriculum is a descriptive analysis of how institutions can work to foster stronger intellectual activities around writing as connected to campus-wide diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- Publication year: 2023
"K for the Way"
DJ Rhetoric and Literacy for 21st Century Writing Studies
- Publication year: 2023
Claiming Space
Performing the Personal through Decorated Mortarboards
Claiming Space examines the growing tradition of decorating mortarboards at college graduations, offering a performance-centered approach to these material sites of display.
- Publication year: 2023
Writing Centers and Racial Justice
A Guidebook for Critical Praxis
Writing Centers and Racial Justice responds to renewed and invigorated interest in racial justice and antiracism across writing centers and in writing studies, providing practical ways to enact racial justice in and through the writing center.
- Publication year: 2023
Behind the Mask
Vernacular Culture in the Time of COVID
Vernacular responses have been crucial for communities seeking creative ways to cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
- Publication year: 2023
The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays
The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays unfolds as a series of questions, commentaries, and criticisms of the analysis, interpretation, and explanation of folklore.
- Publication year: 2023
Composition and Rhetoric in Contentious Times
Composition and Rhetoric in Contentious Times poses critical questions of representation, accessibility, social justice, affect, and labor to better understand the entwined future of composition and rhetoric.
- Publication year: 2023
Writing on the Social Network
Digital Literacy Practices in Social Media's First Decade
Writing on the Social Network builds upon traditions in longitudinal writing research to present a longer view of the impact of social media technologies on individuals’ literacy practices.
- Publication year: 2023
Stories of Our Living Ephemera
Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907
Stories of Our Living Ephemera recovers the history of the Cherokee National Seminaries from scattered archives and colonized research practices by critically weaving together pedagogy and archival artifacts with Cherokee traditional stories and Indigenous worldviews.
- Publication year: 2023