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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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No Place To Call Home

The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2005
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Meaning of Folklore

The Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes

Utah State University Press

Compilation of Dundes's most important analytical work, including many widely unavailable essays. Edited by Simon Bronner.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Unruly Audience

Folk Interventions in Popular Media

Utah State University Press

Unruly Audience explores grassroots appropriations of familiar media texts from film, television, stand-up comedy, popular music, advertising, and tourism.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Transforming Ethos

Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing

Utah State University Press

In Transforming Ethos Rosanne Carlo synthesizes philosophy, rhetorical theory, and composition theory to clarify the role of ethos and its potential for identification and pedagogy for writing studies.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Different Drummers

Military Culture and Its Discontents

Edited by Tad Tuleja
Utah State University Press

Different Drummers explores the disjunction between organizational solidarity and individual pushback in military organizations, examining how members of the armed forces express ambivalent attitudes about their service.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Interrogating Gendered Pathologies

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Interrogating Gendered Pathologies points out and critiques unjust patterns of pathology.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America

Utah State University Press

In Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America, Don E. Albrecht visits rural communities that have traditionally been dependent on a variety of goods-producing industries, explores what has happened as employment in these industries has declined, and provides a path by which they can build a vibrant twenty-first-century economy.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Learning from the Lived Experiences of Graduate Student Writers

Utah State University Press

A timely resource for understanding and resolving some of the issues graduate students face, particularly as higher education begins to pay more critical attention to graduate student success.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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After Plato

Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing

Edited by John Duffy and Lois Agnew
Utah State University Press

Explores the diversity of ethical perspectives animating contemporary writing studies and examines the place of ethics in writing classrooms, writing centers, writing across the curriculum programs, prison education classes, and other settings.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Farm

A Multimodal Reader

Utah State University Press

Explores the culture of agriculture through a diverse and multicultural collection of fiction, poetry, essays, art, music, recipes, and folklore.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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"What the Railroad Will Bring Us"

The Legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad Corporations

Utah State University Press

In volume 25 of the Arrington Lecture Series, Richard White discusses the transcontinental railroad’s impact on Utah’s environment, culture, and political atmosphere.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Redeeming a People

The Critical Role of Historical Examination in Moving Cultural and Moral Trajectories

Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection

In volume 24 of the Arrington Lecture Series, Darius Gray, who joined the LDS Church in 1964, marks the history of the years that preceded the leadership of the LDS Church’s revelation allowing all worthy male members, regardless of race, to receive the priesthood.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Metabolizing Capital

Writing, Information, and the Biophysical Environment

Utah State University Press

Metabolizing Capital outlines a critical ecological framework to guide the theorization of writing and rhetoric in the dynamic contexts of Web 3.0 and environmental crisis.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Teaching Mindful Writers

Utah State University Press

Teaching Mindful Writers introduces new writing teachers to a learning cycle that will help students become self-directed writers through planning, practicing, revising, and reflecting.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Rewriting Partnerships

Community Perspectives on Community-Based Learning

Utah State University Press

Rewriting Partnerships offers concrete strategies for creating more community-responsive partnerships at the classroom level as well as at the level of program and research design.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Talking Back

Senior Scholars and Their Colleagues Deliberate the Past, Present, and Future of Writing Studies

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.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Presumed Incompetent II

Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia

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.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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(Re)Considering What We Know

Learning Thresholds in Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy

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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Over the Range

A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2008
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The Folklorist in the Marketplace

Conversations at the Crossroads of Vernacular Culture and Economics

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  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Early Holistic Scoring of Writing

A Theory, a History, a Reflection

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.

 

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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The Kiss of Death

Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Explanation Points

Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition

Utah State University Press

A curated collection of disciplinary knowledge and advice for publishing in rhetoric and composition.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Weathering the Storm

Independent Writing Programs in the Age of Fiscal Austerity

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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Reformers, Teachers, Writers

Curricular and Pedagogical Inquiries

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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Bridging the Multimodal Gap

From Theory to Practice

Utah State University Press

Bridging the Multimodal Gap addresses multimodality scholarship and its use in the composition classroom.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Sojourning in Disciplinary Cultures

A Case Study of Teaching Writing in Engineering

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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Rhetorical Speculations

The Future of Rhetoric, Writing, and Technology

Edited by Scott Sundvall
Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Multimodal Composing

Strategies for Twenty-First-Century Writing Consultations

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2019
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Defining, Locating, and Addressing Bullying in the WPA Workplace

Utah State University Press

Contributors to this collection share their personal stories and analyze varieties of collegial malevolence they have experienced as WPAs.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Provocations of Virtue

Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing

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.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Opera and its Voices in Utah

Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection
  • Copyright year: 2018
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The Writer's Style

A Rhetorical Field Guide

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.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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