Utah State University Press: 175 books
Writing Majors
Eighteen Program Profiles
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
The writing major is among the most exciting scenes in the evolving American university. Writing Majors is a collection of firsthand descriptions of the origins, growth, and transformations of eighteen different programs. The chapters provide useful administrative insight, benchmark information, and...
Provocations of Virtue
Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Teaching of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
In Provocations of Virtue, John Duffy explores the indispensable role of writing teachers and scholars in counteracting the polarized, venomous “post-truth” character of contemporary public argument. Teachers of writing are uniquely positioned to address the crisis of public discourse because...
What We Really Value
Beyond Rubrics in Teaching and Assessing Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
What We Really Value traces the origins of traditional rubrics within the theoretical and historical circumstances out of which they emerged, then holds rubrics up for critical scrutiny in the context of contemporary developments in the field. As an alternative to the generic character and decontextualized...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
From scholars working in a variety of institutional and geographic contexts and with a wide range of student populations, Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs offers perspectives on how writing programs can support or hinder students’ transitions to college. The contributors present individual...
Points of Departure
Rethinking Student Source Use and Writing Studies Research Methods
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
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...
Teaching Subject, A
Composition Since 1966, New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing instruction since the Dartmouth Seminar of 1966. A Teaching Subject offers a brilliant interpretive history of the first decades during which writing studies came to be imagined as a discipline separable from its partners...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
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...
Japanese Demon Lore
Oni from Ancient Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Oni, ubiquitous supernatural figures in Japanese literature, lore, art, and religion, usually appear as demons or ogres. Characteristically threatening, monstrous creatures with ugly features and fearful habits, including cannibalism, they also can be harbingers of prosperity, beautiful and sexual,...
Voice in the Wilderness
Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
With her distinctive, impassioned voice and familiar felicity of language, Terry Tempest Williams talks about wilderness and wildlife, place and eroticism, art and literature, democracy and politics, family and heritage, Mormonism and religion, writing and creativity, and other subjects that engage...
Unsettling Assumptions
Tradition, Gender, Drag
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
In Unsettling Assumptions, editors Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye examine how tradition and gender come together to unsettle assumptions about culture and its study.
Contributors explore the intersections of traditional expressive culture and sex/gender systems to question, investigate, or...
Rewriting
How To Do Things With Texts
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2007
"Like all writers, intellectuals need to say something new and say it well. But unlike many other writers, what intellectuals have to say is bound up with the books we are reading . . . and the ideas of the people we are talking with."
What are the moves that an academic writer makes?...
Landscaping on the New Frontier
Waterwise Design for the Intermountain West
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
A practical volume for the home or business owner on landscaping with native, drought-tolerant plants in the Rocky Mountain West. Filled with color illustrations, photos, and design sketches, over 100 native species are described, while practical tips on landscape design, water-wise irrigation, and...
Everyday Writing Center
A Community of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In a landmark collaboration, five co-authors develop a theme of ordinary disruptions ("the everyday") as a source of provocative learning moments that can liberate both student writers and writing center staff. At the same time, the authors parlay Etienne Wenger’s concept of "community...
Public Performances
Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
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...