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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Old Deseret Live Stock Company

A Stockman's Memoir

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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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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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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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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Speaking Up, Speaking Out

Lived Experiences of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in Writing Studies

Utah State University Press

Speaking Up, Speaking Out addresses the lived experiences of those working in the non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF) trenches through storytelling and reflection.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Privacy Matters

Conversations about Surveillance within and beyond the Classroom

Utah State University Press

Privacy Matters examines how communications and writing educators, administrators, technological resource coordinators, and scholars can address the ways surveillance and privacy affect student and faculty composing, configure identity formation, and subvert the surveillance state.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Women’s Ways of Making

Utah State University Press

Women’s Ways of Making draws attention to material practices—those that the hands perform—as three epistemologies—an episteme, a techne, and a phronesis—that together give pointed consideration to making as a rhetorical embodied endeavor.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Unlearning

Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge

Utah State University Press

A provocative theoretical synthesis by renowned folklorist and anthropologist Charles L. Briggs, Unlearning questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths forward. Briggs argues, through an expansive look back at his own influential works as well as critical readings of the field, that scholars can disrupt existing social and discourse theories across disciplines when they collaborate with theorists whose insights are not constrained by the bounds of scholarship.
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work

Theories, Methodologies, and Pedagogies

Utah State University Press

Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Workprovides action-focused resources and tools—heuristics, methodologies, and theories—for scholars to enact social justice.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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The Reed Smoot Hearings

The Investigation of a Mormon Senator and the Transformation of an American Religion

Utah State University Press

This book examines the hearings that followed Mormon apostle Reed Smoot’s 1903 election to the US Senate and the subsequent protests and petitioning efforts from mainstream Christian ministries disputing Smoot’s right to serve as a senator.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Mountain Witches

Yamauba

Utah State University Press

Mountain Witches is a comprehensive guide to the complex figure of yamauba—female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and large mouths that open from ear to ear and who live in the mountains—and the evolution of their roles and significance in Japanese culture and society from the premodern era to the present.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Redefining Roles

The Professional, Faculty, and Graduate Consultant’s Guide to Writing Centers

Utah State University Press

Redefining Roles is the first book to recognize and provide sustained focus on the presence of professional, faculty, and graduate student consultants in writing centers.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Standing at the Threshold

Working through Liminality in the Composition and Rhetoric TAship

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Reading and Writing Instruction in the Twenty-First Century

Recovering and Transforming the Pedagogy of Robert Scholes

Utah State University Press

In Reading and Writing Instruction in the Twenty-First Century contemporary scholars explore and extend the continued relevance of Scholes’s work for those in English and writing studies.
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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From Military to Academy

The Writing and Learning Transitions of Student-Veterans

Utah State University Press

Providing meaningful research into the ways adult learners bring their knowledge to the classroom, From Military to Academy offers new ways of thinking about pedagogy beyond the “traditional” college experience.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Translingual Pedagogical Perspectives

Engaging Domestic and International Students in the Composition Classroom

Utah State University Press

Translingual Pedagogical Perspectives addresses the movement toward translingualism in the writing classroom and demonstrates the practical pedagogical strategies faculty can take to represent both domestic and international monolingual and multilingual students’ perspectives in writing programs.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Self+Culture+Writing

Autoethnography for/as Writing Studies

Utah State University Press

Self+Culture+Writing foregrounds the possibility of autoethnography as a viable methodological approach and provides researchers and instructors with ways of understanding, crafting, and teaching autoethnography within writing studies.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Queerly Centered

LGBTQA Writing Center Directors Navigate the Workplace

Utah State University Press

Queerly Centered explores writing center administration and queer identity, showcasing nuanced orientations to LGBTQA labor undertaken but not previously acknowledged or documented in the field’s research.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Civic Engagement in Global Contexts

International Education, Community Partnerships, and Higher Education

Utah State University Press

This volume examines the role of writing, rhetoric, and literacy programs and approaches in the practice of civic engagement in global contexts.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Teaching Writing through the Immigrant Story

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Transformations

Change Work across Writing Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices

Utah State University Press

This edited volume offers strategies for implementing large- and small-scale changes in writing programs by focusing on transformations­—the institutional, programmatic, curricular, and labor practices that work together to shape our teaching and learning experiences of writing and rhetoric in higher education.
 

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Stories of Becoming

Demystifying the Professoriate for Graduate Students in Composition and Rhetoric

Utah State University Press

Based on findings from a multiyear, nationwide study of new faculty in the field of rhetoric and composition, Stories of Becoming provides graduate students—and those who train them—with specific strategies for preparing for a career in the professoriate.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Writing Across Difference

Theory and Intervention

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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North American Monsters

A Contemporary Legend Casebook

Edited by David J. Puglia
Utah State University Press

Mining a mountain of folklore publications, North American Monsters unearths decades of notable monster research.

  • Copyright year: 2021
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Making Progress

Programmatic and Administrative Approaches for Multimodal Curricular Transformation

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Rhetoric and Guns

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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CounterStories from the Writing Center

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Desegregation State

College Writing Programs after the Civil Rights Movement

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Disrupting the Center

A Partnership Approach to Writing Across the University

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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Making Matters

Craft, Ethics, and New Materialist Rhetorics

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Behind the Curtain of Scholarly Publishing

Editors in Writing Studies

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2022
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Unlimited Players

The Intersections of Writing Center and Game Studies

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2021
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