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Pivotal Strategies

Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline

Edited by Lynn C. Lewis
Utah State University Press

Pivotal Strategies examines the rhetorical contexts and motivations that determine how and why people choose writing studies as a discipline, especially as the field begins to take more seriously an antiracist imperative that requires more conscious listening and promotion of work from scholars representing traditionally underrepresented voices.
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Möbius Media

Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Disruptive Stories

Amplifying Voices from the Writing Center Margins

Utah State University Press

Disruptive Stories uses an activist editing method to select and publish authors that have been marginalized in scholarly conversations and enrich the understanding of lived writing center experiences that have been underrepresented in writing center scholarship. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Opening Windows

Embracing New Perspectives and Practices in Natural Resource Social Sciences

Utah State University Press

The third decennial review from the International Association for Society and Natural Resources, Opening Windowssimultaneously examines the breadth and societal relevance of Society and Natural Resources (SNR) knowledge, explores emergent issues and new directions in SNR scholarship, and captures the increasing diversity of SNR research.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Just Wonder

Shifting Perspectives in Tradition

Utah State University Press

Inspired by folklore, television, fairy tales, social media, novels, and films, Just Wonder addresses crucial themes in social and ecological justice efforts. Moving into the mid-twenty-first century, wonder as a potentially critical sociocultural, ecological, and individual stance will play a critical role in reconceptualizing the present to imagine a different and better world.
 
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Composition Commons

Writing a New Idea of the University

Utah State University Press

The Composition Commons traces the century-long origins of a writing-centered idea of the American university and tracks the resurgence of this idea today.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Revising Moves

Writing Stories of (Re)Making

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  • Copyright year: 2024
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Mentorship/Methodology

Reflections, Praxis, and Futures

Utah State University Press

Mentorship/Methodology brings together emerging and established scholars to consider the relationship between mentoring practices and research methodologies in writing studies and related fields. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Engaging Ambience

Visual and Multisensory Methodologies and Rhetorical Theory

Utah State University Press

Engaging Ambience is the first book to develop comprehensive empirical approaches to ambient rhetoric, detailing and demonstrating visual and multisensory methodologies and methods for exploring the wondrous complexity of everyday communication.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Westwater Lost and Found

Expanded Edition

Utah State University Press

Westwater Lost and Found: Expanded Edition is the continuing story of Westwater—a relatively short, deep canyon near the Utah-Colorado state line that has become one of the most popular river-running destinations in America—and its lasting significance to the study of the Upper Colorado River. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Reaching All Writers

A Pedagogical Guide for Evolving College Writing Classrooms

Utah State University Press

Reaching All Writers brings together decades of writing studies experience, research, and scholarship to help organize first-year writing courses around inclusive teaching practices and foundational concepts that support disciplinary learning for all college writers, including students who have been excluded from more selective higher-education institutions.
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Rhetorical Mediator

Understanding Agency in Indigenous Translation and Interpretation through Indigenous Approaches to UX

Utah State University Press

The Rhetorical Mediator reveals how and why scholars and user experience (UX) researchers can include Indigenous technical communicators and oral interpretation practices in their interdisciplinary conversations.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer

Utah State University Press

Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer explores transfer across various contexts of multimodal composing, extending the early conversations connecting multimodality to writing. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Environmental Preservation and the Grey Cliffs Conflict

Negotiating Common Narratives, Values, and Ethos

Utah State University Press

Based on a qualitative, ethnographic, observational case study approach, Environmental Preservation and the Grey Cliffs Conflict presents an analysis of the conflict negotiation between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a local community that struggled to address a deteriorating Corps-managed recreational lake area in Tennessee known as “Grey Cliffs.”
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Feminist Technical Communication

Apparent Feminisms, Slow Crisis, and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Utah State University Press

Feminist Technical Communication introduces readers to technical communication methodology, demonstrating how rhetorical feminist approaches are vital to the future of technical communication. 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Two-Year College Writing Studies

Rationale and Praxis for Just Teaching

Utah State University Press

Two-Year College Writing Studies is a comprehensive overview of the two-year college writing teaching experience within our current political and historical contexts, with examples for teachers to better enact just teaching practices in their colleges.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Stories of Our Living Ephemera

Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907

Utah State University Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Writing on the Social Network

Digital Literacy Practices in Social Media's First Decade

Utah State University Press

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. 
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Teaching Accelerated and Corequisite Composition

Edited by David Starkey
Utah State University Press

Teaching Accelerated and Corequisite Composition is the first book to compile on-the-ground advice and teaching strategies specifically curated for accelerated and corequisite writing courses.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Beyond Productivity

Embodied, Situated, and (Un)Balanced Faculty Writing Processes

Utah State University Press

In Beyond Productivity, a wide range of contributors share honest narratives of the sometimes-impossible conditions that scholars face when completing writing projects.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Behind the Mask

Vernacular Culture in the Time of COVID

Utah State University Press

Vernacular responses have been crucial for communities seeking creative ways to cope with the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Writing Centers and Racial Justice

A Guidebook for Critical Praxis

Utah State University Press

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. 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays

Utah State University Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Composition and Rhetoric in Contentious Times

Utah State University Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Claiming Space

Performing the Personal through Decorated Mortarboards

Utah State University Press

Claiming Space examines the growing tradition of decorating mortarboards at college graduations, offering a performance-centered approach to these material sites of display. 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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"K for the Way"

DJ Rhetoric and Literacy for 21st Century Writing Studies

By Todd Craig; Foreword by Young Guru
Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2023
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The New Work of Writing Across the Curriculum

Diversity and Inclusion, Collaborative Partnerships, and Faculty Development

Utah State University Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Reconstructing Response to Student Writing

A National Study from across the Curriculum

Utah State University Press

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.
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Telling Stories

Perspectives on Longitudinal Writing Research

Utah State University Press

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. 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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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 State University Press

 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.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Sensemaking for Writing Programs and Writing Centers

Edited by Rita Malenczyk
Utah State University Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Professionalizing Multimodal Composition

Utah State University Press

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. 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Childfree and Happy

Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices

Utah State University Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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A History of Utah Radicalism

Startling, Socialistic, and Decidedly Revolutionary

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2011
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Failing Sideways

Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment

Utah State University Press

Failing Sideways is an innovative and fresh approach to assessment that intersects writing studies, educational measurement, and queer rhetorics.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Strangely Rhetorical

Composing Differently With Novelty Devices

Utah State University Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Making Administrative Work Visible

Data-Driven Advocacy for Understanding the Labor of Writing Program Administration

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  • Copyright year: 2023
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Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition

Utah State University Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2023
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Writing on the Wall

Writing Education and Resistance to Isolationism

Utah State University Press

The first concerted effort of writing studies scholars to interrogate isolationism in the United States, Writing on the Wall reveals how writing teachers—often working directly with students who are immigrants, undocumented, first-generation, international, and students of color—embody ideas that counter isolationism.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Writing Centers and Learning Commons

Staying Centered While Sharing Common Ground

Utah State University Press

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.
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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