An imprint of University Press of Colorado.
Opera and its Voices in Utah
Provocations of Virtue
Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing
Out in the Center
Public Controversies and Private Struggles
Planting the Anthropocene
Rhetorics of Natureculture
Defining, Locating, and Addressing Bullying in the WPA Workplace
Re/Writing the Center
Approaches to Supporting Graduate Students in the Writing Center
Next Steps
New Directions for/in Writing about Writing
Sojourning in Disciplinary Cultures
A Case Study of Teaching Writing in Engineering
Re/Orienting Writing Studies
Queer Methods, Queer Projects
Multimodal Composing
Strategies for Twenty-First-Century Writing Consultations
Radical Writing Center Praxis
A Paradigm for Ethical Political Engagement
Rhetorical Speculations
The Future of Rhetoric, Writing, and Technology
Bridging the Multimodal Gap
From Theory to Practice
Institutional Ethnography
A Theory of Practice for Writing Studies Researchers
Writing Across Cultures
Reformers, Teachers, Writers
Curricular and Pedagogical Inquiries
Weathering the Storm
Independent Writing Programs in the Age of Fiscal Austerity
Explanation Points
Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition
Toward Translingual Realities in Composition
(Re)Working Local Language Representations and Practices
Clever Maids, Fearless Jacks, and a Cat
Fairy Tales from a Living Oral Tradition
The Kiss of Death
Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore
Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Essays in Honor of Sharon Crowley
Early Holistic Scoring of Writing
A Theory, a History, a Reflection
Exploring the possibility of actionable history, Early Holistic Scoring of Writing reconceptualizes writing assessment. Here is a new history that retells the origins of our present body of knowledge in writing studies.
The Folklorist in the Marketplace
Conversations at the Crossroads of Vernacular Culture and Economics
Changing the Subject
A Theory of Rhetorical Empathy
Over the Range
A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad
More than a Moment
Contextualizing the Past, Present, and Future
Steven D. Krause explores MOOCs and their continuing impact on distance learning in higher education, putting them in the context of technical innovations that have come before and those that will be part of the educational future.
(Re)Considering What We Know
Learning Thresholds in Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy
(Re)Considering What We Know raises new questions and offers new ideas that can help to advance the discussion and use of threshold concepts in the field of writing studies.
Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing
Eexplores “neglected circulatory writing processes” to better understand why and how digital writers compose, revise, and deliver arguments that undergo sometimes constant revision.
The Work of Teaching Writing
Learning from Fiction, Film, and Drama
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.
Presumed Incompetent II
Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia
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.
Conceptions of Literacy
Graduate Instructors and the Teaching of First-Year Composition
Conceptions of Literacy proposes a theoretical framework for examining new graduate student instructors’ preexisting attitudes and beliefs about literacy.
Talking Back
Senior Scholars and Their Colleagues Deliberate the Past, Present, and Future of Writing Studies
In Talking Back, a veritable Who’s Who of writing studies scholars deliberate on intellectual traditions, current practices, and important directions for the future.
Rewriting Partnerships
Community Perspectives on Community-Based Learning
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.
Teaching Mindful Writers
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.
Metabolizing Capital
Writing, Information, and the Biophysical Environment
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.
Redeeming a People
The Critical Role of Historical Examination in Moving Cultural and Moral Trajectories
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.
Farm
A Multimodal Reader
Explores the culture of agriculture through a diverse and multicultural collection of fiction, poetry, essays, art, music, recipes, and folklore.
"What the Railroad Will Bring Us"
The Legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad Corporations
In volume 25 of the Arrington Lecture Series, Richard White discusses the transcontinental railroad’s impact on Utah’s environment, culture, and political atmosphere.
After Plato
Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing
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.