Utah State University Press
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Rewriting
How to Do Things with Texts, Second Edition
Utah State University Press
Joseph Harris draws the college writing student away from static ideas of thesis, support, and structure, and toward a more mature and dynamic understanding. Harris wants college writers to think of intellectual writing as an adaptive and social activity, and he offers them a clear set of strategies—a set of moves—for participating in it.
Crossing Divides
Exploring Translingual Writing Pedagogies and Programs
Edited by Bruce Horner and Elliot Tetreault
Utah State University Press
Crossing Divides offers diverse perspectives from leading scholars on the design and implementation of translingual writing pedagogies and programs.
Crafting Presence
The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies
Utah State University Press
Nicole B. Wallack develops an approach to teaching writing with the literary essay.
Nature's Burdens
Conservation and American Politics, The Reagan Era to the Present
Utah State University Press
Nature’s Burdens is a political and intellectual history of American natural resource conservation from the 1980s into the twenty-first century—a period of intense political turmoil, shifting priorities among federal policymakers, and changing ideas about the goals of conservation. Telling a story of persistent activism, conflict, and frustration but also of striking achievement, it is an account of how new ideas and policies regarding human relationships to plants, animals, and their surroundings have become vital features of modern environmentalism.
Around the Texts of Writing Center Work
An Inquiry-Based Approach to Tutor Education
By R. Mark Hall
Utah State University Press
Around the Texts of Writing Center Work reveals the conceptual frameworks found in and created by ordinary writing center documents. The values and beliefs underlying course syllabi, policy statements, website copy and comments, assessment plans, promotional flyers, and annual reports critically inform writing center practices, including the vital undertaking of tutor education.
Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs
Utah State University Press
From scholars working in a variety of institutional and geographic contexts and with a wide range of student populations, Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programsoffers perspectives on how first-year writing can support or hinder students’ transitions to college. The contributors present individual and program case studies, surveys of thousands of students, a wealth of institutional retention data, and critical policy analysis.
The Meaningful Writing Project
Learning, Teaching and Writing in Higher Education
Utah State University Press
Economies of Writing
Revaluations in Rhetoric and Composition
Utah State University Press
Economies of Writing advances scholarship on political economies of writing and writing instruction, considering them in terms of course subject, pedagogy, technology, and social practice.
Defender
The Life of Daniel H. Wells
Utah State University Press
Defender is the first and only scholarly biography of Daniel H. Wells, an important yet historically neglected leader among the nineteenth-century Mormons.
Heroes, Hero Worship, and Brigham Young
Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection
Exploring Composition Studies
Sites, Issues, Perspectives
Edited by Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda
Utah State University Press
Decisions, Agency, and Advising
Key Issues in the Placement of Multilingual Writers into First-Year Composition Courses
Utah State University Press
Decisions, Agency, and Advising considers the role of students’ own agency in the placement of multilingual writers in US college composition programs.
The Montana Vigilantes 1863–1870
Gold,Guns and Gallows
Utah State University Press
Historians and novelists alike have described the vigilantism that took root in the gold-mining communities of Montana in the mid-1860s, but Mark C. Dillon is the first to examine the subject through the prism of American legal history, considering the state of criminal justice and law enforcement in the western territories and also trial procedures, gubernatorial politics, legislative enactments, and constitutional rights.
Nowhere Near the Line
Pain and Possibility in Teaching and Writing
Utah State University Press
Good God but You Smart!
Language Prejudice and Upwardly Mobile Cajuns
Utah State University Press
Conceding Composition
A Crooked History of Composition's Institutional Fortunes
Utah State University Press