Utah State University Press
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Serendipity in Rhetoric, Writing, and Literacy Research
Edited by Maureen Daly Goggin and Peter N. Goggin
Utah State University Press
In the course of research, most scholars have known moments of surprise, catastrophe, or good fortune, though they seldom refer to these occurrences in reports or discuss them with students. Serendipity in Rhetoric, Writing, and Literacy Research reveals the different kinds of work scholars, particularly those in rhetoric, writing, and literacy, need to do in order to recognize a serendipitous discovery or a missed opportunity.
- Copyright year: 2018
An Alternate Pragmatism for Going Public
By Jim Webber
Utah State University Press
An Alternate Pragmatism for Going Public interrogates composition’s most prominent responses to contemporary K–16 education reform. By “going public,” teachers, scholars, and administrators rightfully reassert their expertise against corporate-political standards and assessments like the Common Core, Complete College America, and the Collegiate Learning Assessment. However, author Jim Webber shows that composition’s professional imperative for self-defense only partly fulfils the broader aims of “going public,” which include fostering public participation that can assess and potentially affirm the public good of professional judgment.
- Copyright year: 2017
Writing at the State U
Instruction and Administration at 106 Comprehensive Universities
By Emily Isaacs
Utah State University Press
Writing at the State U presents a comprehensive, empirical examination of writing programs at 106 universities. Rather than using open survey calls and self-reporting, Emily Isaacs uses statistical analysis to show the extent to which established principles of writing instruction and administration have been implemented at state comprehensive universities, the ways in which writing at those institutions has differed from writing at other institutions over time, and how state institutions have responded to major scholarly debates concerning first-year composition and writing program administration.
- Copyright year: 2017
Points of Departure
Rethinking Student Source Use and Writing Studies Research Methods
Edited by Tricia Serviss and Sandra Jamieson
Utah State University Press
Points of Departure encourages a return to empirical research about writing, presenting a wealth of transparent, reproducible studies of student sources. The volume shows how to develop methods for coding and characterizing student texts, their choice of source material, and the resources used to teach information literacy. In so doing, the volume advances our understanding of how students actually write.
- Copyright year: 2017
Public Performances
Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque
Edited by Jack Santino
Utah State University Press
Public Performances offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political motivations they share. Illustrating the connections among three themes—the political, the carnivalesque, and the ritualesque—this volume provides rich and comprehensive insight into public performance as an assertion of political power.
- Copyright year: 2017
Class in the Composition Classroom
Pedagogy and the Working Class
Edited by Genesea M. Carter and William H. Thelin
Utah State University Press
Class in the Composition Classroom considers what college writing instructors should know about their working-class students—their backgrounds, experiences, identities, learning styles, and skills—in order to support them in the classroom, across campus, and beyond. In this volume, contributors explore the nuanced and complex meaning of “working class” and the particular values these college writers bring to the classroom.
- Copyright year: 2017
Inventing the World Grant University
Chinese International Students’ Mobilities, Literacies, and Identities
Utah State University Press
Through an exploration of the literacy practices of undergraduate Chinese international students in the United States and China, Inventing the World Grant University demonstrates the ways in which writing, public speaking, disciplinary literacies, and humanities-based curricula are constructed and enacted across institutional and geographic borders.
- Copyright year: 2017
Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition
Utah State University Press
Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition is a timely exploration of the increasingly widespread and disturbing effect of “post-truth” on public discourse in the United States. Bruce McComiskey analyzes the instances of bullshit, fake news, feigned ethos, hyperbole, and other forms of post-truth rhetoric employed in recent political discourse.
- Copyright year: 2017
Writing Program Architecture
Thirty Cases for Reference and Research
Edited by Bryna Siegel Finer and Jamie White-Farnham
Utah State University Press
An unprecedented abundance of information concerning the significant material, logistical, and rhetorical features of writing programs and the realities of thirty diverse and award-winning programs.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Politics of Writing Studies
Reinventing Our Universities from Below
Utah State University Press
A friendly critique of the field, The Politics of Writing Studies examines a set of recent pivotal texts in composition to show how writing scholarship, in an effort to improve disciplinary prestige and garner institutional resources, inadvertently reproduces structures of inequality within American higher education. Not only does this enable the exploitation of contingent faculty, but it also puts writing studies—a field that inherently challenges many institutional hierarchies—in a debased institutional position and at odds with itself.
- Copyright year: 2017
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