Utah State University Press
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Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan
Utah State University Press
- Publication year: 2016
Good God but You Smart!
Language Prejudice and Upwardly Mobile Cajuns
Utah State University Press
- Publication year: 2016
Nowhere Near the Line
Pain and Possibility in Teaching and Writing
Utah State University Press
- Publication year: 2016
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.
- Publication year: 2016
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.
- Publication year: 2016
Exploring Composition Studies
Sites, Issues, Perspectives
Edited by Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda
Utah State University Press
- Publication year: 2012
Heroes, Hero Worship, and Brigham Young
Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection
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.
- Publication year: 2022
Hosea Stout
Lawman, Legislator, Mormon Defender
Utah State University Press
- Publication year: 2016
The Meaningful Writing Project
Learning, Teaching and Writing in Higher Education
Utah State University Press
- Publication year: 2017
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.
- Publication year: 2016
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.
- Publication year: 2017
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.
- Publication year: 2017
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.
- Publication year: 2017
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.
- Publication year: 2017
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.
- Publication year: 2016
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.
- Publication 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.
- Publication 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.
- Publication 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.
- Publication 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.
- Publication 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.
- Publication 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.
- Publication 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.
- Publication 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.
- Publication year: 2017
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.
- Publication year: 2017
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.
- Publication year: 2018
Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity
Utah State University Press
Edited by four nationally recognized leaders of composition scholarship, Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity asks a fundamental question: can Composition and Rhetoric, as a discipline, continue its historical commitment to pedagogy without sacrificing equal attention to other areas, such as research and theory? In response, contributors to the volume address disagreements about what it means to be called a discipline rather than a profession or a field; elucidate tensions over the defined breadth of Composition and Rhetoric; and consider the roles of research and responsibility as Composition and Rhetoric shifts from field to discipline.
- Publication year: 2018
The Internationalization of US Writing Programs
Edited by Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser
Utah State University Press
The Internationalization of US Writing Programs illuminates the role writing programs and WPAs play for international student populations, offering multiple theoretical approaches to the work of writing programs.
- Publication year: 2018
How Writing Faculty Write
Strategies for Process, Product, and Productivity
Utah State University Press
Christine Tulley examines the composing processes of fifteen faculty leaders in the field of rhetoric and writing.
- Publication year: 2018
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