Utah State University Press
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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.
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.
Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric
Edited by Laurie Gries and Collin Gifford Brooke
Utah State University Press
Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric introduces a wide range of studies that foreground circulation in both theory and practice and explore the connections between circulation and public rhetorics, urban studies, feminist rhetorics, digital communication, new materialism, and digital research.
WPAs in Transition
Navigating Educational Leadership Positions
Utah State University Press
WPAs in Transition shares a wide variety of professional and personal perspectives about the costs, benefits, struggles, and triumphs experienced by writing program administrators making transitions into and out of leadership positions.
Thinking Globally, Composing Locally
Rethinking Online Writing in the Age of the Global Internet
Edited by Rich Rice and Kirk St.Amant
Utah State University Press
Thinking Globally, Composing Locally explores how writing and its pedagogy should adapt to the ever-expanding environment of international online communication.
A Mission for Development
Utah Universities and the Point Four Program in Iran
Utah State University Press
Tells the remarkable story of faculty from three Utah universities who lived and worked in Iran as part of the Point Four Program, reexamining the rise and fall of the US-Iranian alliance and exploring the roles that American universities played in international development during the Cold War.
The Embodied Playbook
Writing Practices of Student-Athletes
Utah State University Press
The Embodied Playbook discovers a new approach to understanding student literacy in a surprising place: the university athletics department. Through analysis of a yearlong case study of the men’s basketball team at the University of North Georgia, J. Michael Rifenburg shows that a deeper and more refined understanding of how humans learn through physical action can help writing instructors reach a greater range of students.
Wicked, Incomplete, and Uncertain
User Support in the Wild and the Role of Technical Communication
By Jason Swarts
Utah State University Press
Author Jason Swarts shows how to document technologies that may hybridize into forms that not even their designers would have anticipated and offers insight into the evolving role of a technical writer.
Rhetor Response
A Theory and Practice of Literary Affordance
Utah State University Press
Rhetor Response introduces the concept and pedagogical applications of “literary affordances”—the ways in which readers “use” and integrate literature into their own writing or lives.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Opera and its Voices in Utah
Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.