Utah State University Press: 175 books
Living Folklore
Introduction to the Study of People and their Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Living Folklore is a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to folklore as it is lived, shared and practiced in contemporary settings. Drawing on examples from diverse American groups and experiences, this text gives the student a strong foundation—from the field’s history and major terms...
Science, Bread, and Circuses
Folkloristic Essays on Science for the Masses
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In Science, Bread, and Circuses, Gregory Schrempp brings a folkloristic viewpoint to the topic of popular science, calling attention to the persistence of folkloric form, idiom, and worldview within the increasingly important dimension of popular consciousness defined by the impact of science.
Schrempp...
Re/Writing the Center
Approaches to Supporting Graduate Students in the Writing Center
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
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. Most writing center tutors are undergraduates, whose lack of familiarity with the genres, preparatory...
Re/Orienting Writing Studies
Queer Methods, Queer Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Re/Orienting Writing Studies is an exploration of the intersections among queer theory, rhetoric, and research methods in writing studies. Focusing careful theoretical attention on common research practices, this collection demonstrates how queer rhetorics of writing/composing, textual analysis, history,...
An Epidemic of Rumors
How Stories Shape Our Perception of Disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
In An Epidemic of Rumors, Jon D. Lee examines the human response to epidemics through the lens of the 2003 SARS epidemic. Societies usually respond to the eruption of disease by constructing stories, jokes, conspiracy theories, legends, and rumors, but these narratives are often more damaging than...
Legend Tripping
A Contemporary Legend Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook explores the practice of legend tripping, wherein individuals or groups travel to a site where a legend is thought to have taken place. Legend tripping is a common informal practice depicted in epics, stories, novels, and film throughout both contemporary...
Writing across Contexts
Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Addressing how composers transfer both knowledge about and practices of writing, Writing across Contexts explores the grounding theory behind a specific composition curriculum called Teaching for Transfer (TFT) and analyzes the efficacy of the approach. Finding that TFT courses aid students in transfer...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Tutoring Second Language Writers, a complete update of Bruce and Rafoth’s 2009 ESL Writers, is a guide for writing center tutors that addresses the growing need for tutors who are better prepared to work with the increasingly international population of students seeking guidance at the writing center.
Drawing...
Good God but You Smart!
Language Prejudice and Upwardly Mobile Cajuns
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Taking Cajuns as a case study, Good God but You Smart! explores the subtle ways language bias is used in classrooms, within families, and in pop culture references to enforce systemic economic inequality. It is the first book in composition studies to examine comprehensively, and from an insider’s...
Thinking Globally, Composing Locally
Rethinking Online Writing in the Age of the Global Internet
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
*Thinking Globally, Composing Locally *explores how writing and its pedagogy should adapt to the ever-expanding environment of international online communication. Communication to a global audience presents a number of new challenges; writers seeking to connect with individuals from many different...
by Nicole Caswell, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Rebecca Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The first book-length empirical investigation of writing center directors’ labor, The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors presents a longitudinal qualitative study of the individual professional lives of nine new directors. Inspired by Kinkead and Harris’s Writing Centers in Context (1993),...
Coming To Terms
A Theory of Writing Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
In a provocative book-length essay, Patricia Lynne argues that most programmatic assessment of student writing in U.S. public and higher education is conceived in the terms of mid-20th century positivism. Since composition as a field had found its most compatible home in constructivism, she asks,...
Economies of Writing
Revaluations in Rhetoric and Composition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
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. Taking the "economic" as a necessary point of departure and contention for the field, the collection...
Out in the Center
Public Controversies and Private Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Out in the Center explores the personal struggles of tutors, faculty, and administrators in writing center communities as they negotiate the interplay between public controversies and features of their own intersectional identities. These essays address how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class,...