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Weathering the Storm
Independent Writing Programs in the Age of Fiscal Austerity
- Publication year: 2019
Explanation Points
Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition
- Publication year: 2019
Toward Translingual Realities in Composition
(Re)Working Local Language Representations and Practices
- Publication year: 2019
Clever Maids, Fearless Jacks, and a Cat
Fairy Tales from a Living Oral Tradition
- Publication year: 2019
The Kiss of Death
Contagion, Contamination, and Folklore
- Publication year: 2019
Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies
Essays in Honor of Sharon Crowley
- Publication year: 2019
Early Holistic Scoring of Writing
A Theory, a History, a Reflection
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.
- Publication year: 2019
The Folklorist in the Marketplace
Conversations at the Crossroads of Vernacular Culture and Economics
- Publication year: 2019
Changing the Subject
A Theory of Rhetorical Empathy
- Publication year: 2019
Over the Range
A History of the Promontory Summit Route of the Pacific Railroad
- Publication year: 2008
More than a Moment
Contextualizing the Past, Present, and Future
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.
- Publication year: 2019
(Re)Considering What We Know
Learning Thresholds in Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy
(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.
- Publication year: 2019
Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing
Eexplores “neglected circulatory writing processes” to better understand why and how digital writers compose, revise, and deliver arguments that undergo sometimes constant revision.
- Publication year: 2019
The Work of Teaching Writing
Learning from Fiction, Film, and Drama
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.
- Publication year: 2020
Presumed Incompetent II
Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia
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.
- Publication year: 2020
Conceptions of Literacy
Graduate Instructors and the Teaching of First-Year Composition
Conceptions of Literacy proposes a theoretical framework for examining new graduate student instructors’ preexisting attitudes and beliefs about literacy.
- Publication year: 2020
Talking Back
Senior Scholars and Their Colleagues Deliberate the Past, Present, and Future of Writing Studies
In Talking Back, a veritable Who’s Who of writing studies scholars deliberate on intellectual traditions, current practices, and important directions for the future.
- Publication year: 2020
Rewriting Partnerships
Community Perspectives on Community-Based Learning
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.
- Publication year: 2020
Teaching Mindful Writers
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.
- Publication year: 2020
Metabolizing Capital
Writing, Information, and the Biophysical Environment
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.
- Publication year: 2020
Redeeming a People
The Critical Role of Historical Examination in Moving Cultural and Moral Trajectories
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.
- Publication year: 2020
Farm
A Multimodal Reader
Explores the culture of agriculture through a diverse and multicultural collection of fiction, poetry, essays, art, music, recipes, and folklore.
- Publication year: 2020
"What the Railroad Will Bring Us"
The Legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad Corporations
In volume 25 of the Arrington Lecture Series, Richard White discusses the transcontinental railroad’s impact on Utah’s environment, culture, and political atmosphere.
- Publication year: 2020
After Plato
Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing
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.
- Publication year: 2020
Learning from the Lived Experiences of Graduate Student Writers
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.
- Publication year: 2020
Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America
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.
- Publication year: 2020
Interrogating Gendered Pathologies
Interrogating Gendered Pathologies points out and critiques unjust patterns of pathology.
- Publication year: 2020
Different Drummers
Military Culture and Its Discontents
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.
- Publication year: 2020
Transforming Ethos
Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing
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.
- Publication year: 2020
Unruly Audience
Folk Interventions in Popular Media
Unruly Audience explores grassroots appropriations of familiar media texts from film, television, stand-up comedy, popular music, advertising, and tourism.
- Publication year: 2020