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There Is No Making It Out

Stories-So-Far and the Possibilities of New Stories

Utah State University Press

There Is No Making It Out is an archival, revisionist rhetorical historiography and pedagogically informed conversation at the intersections of literacy, rhetorical, composition, and decolonial studies. 

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Adventures in the Play-Ritual Continuum

Utah State University Press

The junctions between play and ritual are many and complex. Play is for fun and joy, but it also demands a total commitment and serious respect for rules. Rituals involve nearly endless varieties of social arrangements and can truly transform people, but they also include improvisation, testing, and pretending.
 
 

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Reflection-in-Motion

Reimagining Reflection in the Writing Classroom

Utah State University Press

Reflection-in-Motion considers how reflective practice is embedded in daily course happenings, centering the experiences of students and teachers in Minority Serving Institutions to amplify
underrepresented viewpoints about how reflection works in the writing classroom. 

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Tracing the Impact of First-Year Writing

Identity, Process, and Transfer at a Public University

Utah State University Press

Tracing the Impact of First-Year Writing presents the results of a large-scale longitudinal study of college writers that explores the impact of a required first-year writing course with a comparative approach not previously available.

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Indigenous Voices in Digital Spaces

Utah State University Press

Indigenous Voices in Digital Spaces applies Indigenous frameworks and epistemologies to online cultural movements through four case studies, including hashtags, memes, cryptocurrency, and digital artistry, and develops decolonizing practices for digital rhetoric, online identity work, and digital literacy practices.
 

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The Case for Critical Literacy

A History of Reading in Writing Studies

Utah State University Press

The Case for Critical Literacy explores the history of reading within writing studies and lays the foundation for understanding the impact of this critical, yet often untaught, skill. 

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Doing Difference Differently

Chinese International Students’ Literacy Practices and Affordances

Utah State University Press

Doing Difference Differently ethnographically recounts the stories of four Chinese international students navigating the complex socio-academic environment of a North American institution for higher education. 

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Doing Difference Differently

Chinese International Students' Literacy Practices and Affordances

Utah State University Press

Doing Difference Differently ethnographically recounts the stories of four Chinese international students navigating the complex socio-academic environment of a North American institution for higher education. 

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Burnin' Daylight

Building a Principle-Driven Writing Program

Utah State University Press

Rooted in contemporary understandings of social action, informed by up-to-date research on writing program administration, and attentive to the needs of value-driven decision-making, Burnin’ Daylight enables writing program administrators (WPAs) to shape writing programs that help people create the lives they envision.

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Pivotal Strategies

Claiming Writing Studies as Discipline

Edited by Lynn C. Lewis
Utah State University Press

Pivotal Strategies examines the rhetorical contexts and motivations that determine how and why people choose writing studies as a discipline, especially as the field begins to take more seriously an antiracist imperative that requires more conscious listening and promotion of work from scholars representing traditionally underrepresented voices.
 

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Möbius Media

Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque

Utah State University Press
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Disruptive Stories

Amplifying Voices from the Writing Center Margins

Utah State University Press

Disruptive Stories uses an activist editing method to select and publish authors that have been marginalized in scholarly conversations and enrich the understanding of lived writing center experiences that have been underrepresented in writing center scholarship. 

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Public Performances

Studies in the Carnivalesque and Ritualesque

Edited by Jack Santino
Utah State University Press

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 rich and comprehensive insight into public performance as an assertion of political power.

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Opening Windows

Embracing New Perspectives and Practices in Natural Resource Social Sciences

Utah State University Press

The third decennial review from the International Association for Society and Natural Resources, Opening Windowssimultaneously examines the breadth and societal relevance of Society and Natural Resources (SNR) knowledge, explores emergent issues and new directions in SNR scholarship, and captures the increasing diversity of SNR research.

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Just Wonder

Shifting Perspectives in Tradition

Utah State University Press

Inspired by folklore, television, fairy tales, social media, novels, and films, Just Wonder addresses crucial themes in social and ecological justice efforts. Moving into the mid-twenty-first century, wonder as a potentially critical sociocultural, ecological, and individual stance will play a critical role in reconceptualizing the present to imagine a different and better world.
 
 

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