Utah State University Press: 175 books
by Ben Rafoth
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Multilingual writers—often graduate students with more content knowledge and broader cultural experience than a monolingual tutor—unbalance the typical tutor/client relationship and pose a unique challenge for the writing center. Multilingual Writers and Writing Centers explores how directors...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Grasses are the world’s most important plants. They are the dominant species over large parts of the earth’s land surface, a fact that is reflected in the many different words that exist for grasslands, words such as prairie, veldt, palouse, and pampas to mention just a few. As a group, grasses...
Along Navajo Trails
Recollections of a Trader 1898-1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Will Evans's writings should find a special niche in the small but significant body of literature from and about traders to the Navajos. Evans was the proprietor of the Shiprock Trading Company. Probably more than most of his fellow traders, he had a strong interest in Navajo culture. The effort he...
The Folkloresque
Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This volume introduces a new concept to explore the dynamic relationship between folklore and popular culture: the “folkloresque.” With “folkloresque,” Foster and Tolbert name the product created when popular culture appropriates or reinvents folkloric themes, characters, and images. Such...
Facing the Center
Toward an Identity Politics of One-to-One Mentoring
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In the diversity of their clients as well as their professional and student staff, writing centers present a complicated set of relationships that inevitably affect the instruction they offer. In Facing the Center, Harry Denny unpacks the identity matrices that enrich teachable moments, and he explores...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The practice of polygamy occupies a unique place in North American history and has had a profound effect on its legal and social development. The Polygamy Question explores the ways in which indigenous and immigrant polygamy have shaped the lives of individuals, communities, and the broader societies...
Living Folklore, 2nd Edition
An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
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 to...
Mormon Battalion
United States Army of the West, 1846-1848
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Few events in the history of the American Far West from 1846 to 1849 did not involve the Mormon Battalion. The Battalion participated in the United States conquest of California and in the discovery of gold, opened four major wagon trails, and carried the news of gold east to an eager American public....
by Michael Pemberton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2003
In The Center Will Hold, Pemberton and Kinkead have compiled a major volume of essays on the signal issues of scholarship that have established the writing center field and that the field must successfully address in the coming decade. The new century opens with new institutional, demographic, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
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...
by Bruce Mccomiskey
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In Dialectical Rhetoric, Bruce McComiskey argues that the historical conflict between rhetoric and dialectic can be overcome in ways useful to both composition theory and the composition classroom.
Historically, dialectic has taken two forms in relation to rhetoric. First, it has been the logical...
The Open Hand
Arguing as an Art of Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Based on five years of classroom experimentation, The Open Hand presents a highly practical yet transformational philosophy of teaching argumentative writing. In his course Arguing as an Art of Peace, Barry Kroll uses the open hand to represent an alternative approach to argument, asking students...
Warrior Ways
Explorations in Modern Military Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Warrior Ways is one of the first book-length explorations of military folklife, and focuses on the lore produced by modern American warriors, illuminating the ways in which members of the armed services creatively express the complex experience of military life. In short, lively essays, contributors...
Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries
The Rhetoric of Lines across America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
With growing anxiety about American identity fueling debates about the nation’s borders, ethnicities, and languages, Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries provides a timely and important rhetorical exploration of divisionary bounds that divide an Us from a Them. The concept of “border” calls...