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Conceptions of Literacy
Graduate Instructors and the Teaching of First-Year Composition
Utah State University Press
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
Edited by Norbert Elliot and Alice S. Horning
Utah State University Press
In Talking Back, a veritable Who’s Who of writing studies scholars deliberate on intellectual traditions, current practices, and important directions for the future.
Presumed Incompetent II
Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia
Edited by Yolanda Flores Niemann, Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, and Carmen G. González; Foreword by Angela P. Harris
Utah State University Press
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.
The Work of Teaching Writing
Learning from Fiction, Film, and Drama
Utah State University Press
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.
Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing
Utah State University Press
Eexplores “neglected circulatory writing processes” to better understand why and how digital writers compose, revise, and deliver arguments that undergo sometimes constant revision.
(Re)Considering What We Know
Learning Thresholds in Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy
Edited by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle
Utah State University Press
(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.
More than a Moment
Contextualizing the Past, Present, and Future
Utah State University Press
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.
Over the Range
A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad
Utah State University Press
The Folklorist in the Marketplace
Conversations at the Crossroads of Vernacular Culture and Economics
Edited by Willow G. Mullins and Puja Batra-Wells
Utah State University Press
Changing the Subject
A Theory of Rhetorical Empathy
Utah State University Press
This first book-length study of the concept of empathy from a rhetorical perspective explores ways of engaging across difference.
Early Holistic Scoring of Writing
A Theory, a History, a Reflection
By Richard Haswell and Norbert Elliot
Utah State University Press
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.
Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Essays in Honor of Sharon Crowley
Utah State University Press
Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies takes up and extends the practices of inventive theorizing that characterizes Sharon Crowley’s body of work.
The Kiss of Death
Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore
By Andrea Kitta
Utah State University Press
Clever Maids, Fearless Jacks, and a Cat
Fairy Tales from a Living Oral Tradition
Utah State University Press
Clever Maids, Fearless Jacks, and a Cat showcases the stories of two Newfoundland storytellers, Philip Pius Power and Alice Lannon.
Toward Translingual Realities in Composition
(Re)Working Local Language Representations and Practices
Utah State University Press
Toward Translingual Realities in Composition is a multiyear critical ethnographic study of first-year writing programs in Lebanon and Washington Stateto examine the multiple and often contradictory natures, forces, and manifestations of language ideologies. It is a practical, useful way of seriously engaging with alternative ways of thinking, doing, and learning academic English literacies.
Explanation Points
Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition
Edited by John R Gallagher and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss
Utah State University Press
A curated collection of disciplinary knowledge and advice for publishing in rhetoric and composition.
Weathering the Storm
Independent Writing Programs in the Age of Fiscal Austerity
Edited by Richard N. Matzen Jr. and Matthew Abraham
Utah State University Press
Weathering the Storm assesses the socioeconomic and political conditions that have surrounded the rise of independent writing programs (IWPs) and departments.
Reformers, Teachers, Writers
Curricular and Pedagogical Inquiries
By Neal Lerner
Utah State University Press
Neal Lerner explores the distinction between curriculum and pedagogy in writing studies—and the ways in which failing to attend to that distinction results in the failure of educational reform.
Writing Across Cultures
Utah State University Press
Writing Across Culturesinvites both new and experienced teachers to examine the ways in which their training has—or has not—prepared them for dealing with issues of race, power, and authority in their writing classrooms.
Institutional Ethnography
A Theory of Practice for Writing Studies Researchers
Utah State University Press
Michelle LaFrance introduces the theories, rhetorical frames, and methods that ground and animate institutional ethnography.
Bridging the Multimodal Gap
From Theory to Practice
Edited by Santosh Khadka and J. C. Lee
Utah State University Press
Bridging the Multimodal Gap addresses multimodality scholarship and its use in the composition classroom.
Sojourning in Disciplinary Cultures
A Case Study of Teaching Writing in Engineering
Edited by Maureen Mathison
Utah State University Press
Describes a multiyear project to develop a writing curriculum within the College of Engineering that satisfied the cultural needs of both compositionists and engineers at a large R1 University.
Re/Orienting Writing Studies
Queer Methods, Queer Projects
Utah State University Press
An exploration of the intersections among queer theory, rhetoric, and research methods in writing studies.
Multimodal Composing
Strategies for Twenty-First-Century Writing Consultations
Edited by Lindsay A. Sabatino and Brian Fallon
Utah State University Press
Radical Writing Center Praxis
A Paradigm for Ethical Political Engagement
Utah State University Press
Radical Writing Center Praxis calls for a paradigm change in writing centers, imagining a field whose very reason for being is to facilitate justice and peace.
Rhetorical Speculations
The Future of Rhetoric, Writing, and Technology
Edited by Scott Sundvall
Utah State University Press
Next Steps
New Directions for/in Writing about Writing
Utah State University Press
The first collection of teacher and student voices on a writing pedagogy that puts expert knowledge at the center of the writing classroom.
Planting the Anthropocene
Rhetorics of Natureculture
Utah State University Press
A rhetorical look into the world of industrial tree planting in Canada that engages the themes of nature, culture, and environmental change.
Defining, Locating, and Addressing Bullying in the WPA Workplace
Edited by Cristyn L. Elder and Bethany Davila
Utah State University Press
Contributors to this collection share their personal stories and analyze varieties of collegial malevolence they have experienced as WPAs.
Re/Writing the Center
Approaches to Supporting Graduate Students in the Writing Center
Utah State University Press
Re/Writing the Center illuminates how core writing center pedagogies and institutional arrangements are complicated by the need to create intentional, targeted support for advanced graduate writers.
Provocations of Virtue
Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing
By John Duffy
Utah State University Press
Provocations of Virtue explores the indispensable role of writing teachers and scholars in counteracting the polarized, venomous, “post-truth” character of contemporary public argument.
Out in the Center
Public Controversies and Private Struggles
Utah State University Press
These essays address how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, faith, multilingualism, and learning differences, along with their intersections, challenge those who inhabit writing centers and engage in their conversations.
Opera and its Voices in Utah
Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection
The Writer's Style
A Rhetorical Field Guide
By Paul Butler
Utah State University Press
Designed to help all writers learn to use style as a rhetorical tool, taking into account audience, purpose, context, and occasion.
Legend Tripping
A Contemporary Legend Casebook
Edited by Lynne S. McNeill and Elizabeth Tucker
Utah State University Press
Contributors show how legend trips can express humanity’s interest in the frontier between life and death and the fascination with the possibility of personal contact with the supernatural or spiritual.
Key Theoretical Frameworks
Teaching Technical Communication in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Angela M. Haas and Michelle F. Eble
Utah State University Press
Drawing on social justice methodologies and cultural studies scholarship, this book offers new curricular and pedagogical approaches to teaching technical communication.
Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues
By Jared S. Colton and Steve Holmes
Utah State University Press
Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues offers a framework for theorizing ethics in digital and networked media.
Teaching Readers in Post-Truth America
Utah State University Press
Teaching Readers in Post-Truth America is an invaluable source of support for writing instructors striving to prepare their students to resist post-truth rhetoric and participate in an information-rich, divisive democratic society.
Slender Man Is Coming
Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet
By Trevor J. Blank and Lynne S. McNeill
Utah State University Press
An unprecedented folkloric take on Slender Man, analyzing him within the framework of contemporary legend studies, “creepypastas,” folk belief, and children’s culture.
Teaching Professional and Technical Communication
A Practicum in a Book
Edited by Tracy Bridgeford
Utah State University Press
The essays in this volume provide theoretical and applied discussions about the teaching of professional and technical communication.