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Writing across Contexts

Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing

Utah State University Press

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 in ways that other kinds of composition courses do not, the authors demonstrate that the content of this curriculum, including its reflective practice, provides a unique set of resources for students to call on and repurpose for new writing tasks.


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An Epidemic of Rumors

How Stories Shape Our Perception of Disease

Utah State University Press
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Oral Patterns of Performance

Story and Song

Utah State University Press
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Retention and Resistance

Writing Instruction and Students Who Leave

Utah State University Press
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Chasing Literacy

Reading and Writing in an Age of Acceleration

Utah State University Press
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Japanese Demon Lore

Oni from Ancient Times to the Present

Utah State University Press
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The Open Hand

Arguing as an Art of Peace

Utah State University Press
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Working with Faculty Writers

Utah State University Press

 The imperative to write and to publish is a relatively new development in the history of academia, yet it is now a significant factor in the culture of higher education. Working with Faculty Writers takes a broad view of faculty writing support, advocating its value for tenure-track professors, adjuncts, senior scholars, and graduate students.

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Folklore Rules

A Fun, Quick, and Useful Introduction to the Field of Academic Folklore Studies

Utah State University Press
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The Lame God

Utah State University Press
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Stories of Our Lives

Memory, History, Narrative

Utah State University Press

 The social importance of personal narratives, family saga, and communal legends are well-established in ethnographic and folkloristic literature, but their value for individual self-knowledge is less often demonstrated. Both a memoir and a research project, Stories of Our Lives considers the stories from Frank de Caro’s personal life, as well as the stories he has collected in his years of field research as he explores how the stories we tell, listen to, and learn play an integral role in constructing our temporal selves.

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Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy

The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle, 1830–1853

Utah State University Press

 In Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy, historian Merina Smith explores the introduction of polygamy in Nauvoo, a development that unfolded amid scandal and resistance. Smith considers the ideological, historical, and even psychological elements of the process and captures the emotional and cultural detail of this exciting and volatile period in Mormon history. She illuminates the mystery of early adherents' acceptance of such a radical form of marriage in light of their dedication to the accepted monogamous marriage patterns of their day.

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Tradition in the Twenty-First Century

Locating the Role of the Past in the Present

Utah State University Press

 In Tradition in the Twenty-First Century, eight diverse contributors explore the role of tradition in contemporary folkloristics. For more than a century, folklorists have been interested in locating sources of tradition and accounting for the conceptual boundaries of tradition, but in the modern era, expanded means of communication, research, and travel, along with globalized cultural and economic interdependence, have complicated these pursuits. Tradition is thoroughly embedded in both modern life and at the center of folklore studies, and a modern understanding of tradition cannot be fully realized without a thoughtful consideration of the past’s role in shaping the present.

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Twenty-One Genres and How to Write Them

Utah State University Press

In this classroom-tested approach to writing, Brock Dethier teaches readers how to analyze and write twenty-one genres that students are likely to encounter in college and beyond. This practical, student-friendly, task-oriented text confidently guides writers through step-by-step processes, reducing the anxiety commonly associated with writing tasks.

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Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers

Utah State University Press

Peripheral Visions for Writing Centers aims to inspire a re-conception and re-envisioning of the boundaries of writing center work. Moving beyond the grand narrative of the writing center—that it is solely a comfortable, yet iconoclastic place where all students go to get one-to-one tutoring on their writing—McKinney shines light on other representations of writing center work.

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After the Public Turn

Composition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen Bricoleur

Utah State University Press

 In After the Public Turn, author Frank Farmer argues that counterpublics and the people who make counterpublics—“citizen bricoleurs”—deserve a more prominent role in our scholarship and in our classrooms. Encouraging students to understand and consider resistant or oppositional discourse is a viable route toward mature participation as citizens in a democracy. 

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Folk Culture in the Digital Age

The Emergent Dynamics of Human Interaction

Edited by Trevor J. Blank
Utah State University Press
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Presumed Incompetent

The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia

Utah State University Press
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National Healing

Race, State, and the Teaching of Composition

Utah State University Press
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Warrior Ways

Explorations in Modern Military Folklore

Utah State University Press
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Coal in our Veins

A Personal Journey

Utah State University Press
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Books, Bluster, and Bounty

Local Politics and Carnegie Library Building Grants in the Intermountain West, 1890-1920

Utah State University Press
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Great Basin National Park

A Guide to the Park and Surrounding Area

Utah State University Press
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A Mountain of Paper

The Extraordinary Diary of Leonard James Arrington

Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection
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I Hope I Join the Band

Narrative, Affiliation, and Antiraciset Rhetoric

Utah State University Press
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Teaching Subject, A

Composition Since 1966, New Edition

Utah State University Press
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Woody Plants of Utah

A Field Guide with Identification Keys to Native and Naturalized Trees, Shrubs, Cacti, and Vines

Utah State University Press
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Living Folklore, 2nd Edition

An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions

Utah State University Press
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Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty

Navajos, Hozho, and Track Work

Utah State University Press
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Writing Centers and the New Racism

A Call for Sustainable Dialogue and Change

Utah State University Press
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Through the Schoolhouse Door

Folklore, Community, Currriculum

Utah State University Press
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About the Dead

Utah State University Press
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Changing of Knowledge in Composition

Contemporary Perspectives

Utah State University Press
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Beyond Postprocess

Utah State University Press
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Winter Carnival in a Western Town

Identity, Change and the Good of the Community

Utah State University Press
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Between Pulpit and Pew

The Supernatural World in Mormon History and Folklore

Utah State University Press
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Compelled to Write

Alternative Rhetoric in Theory and Practice

Utah State University Press
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Teaching With Student Texts

Essays Toward an Informed Practice

Utah State University Press
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Diverse by Design

Literacy Education within Multicultural Institutions

Utah State University Press
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Southern Paiute

A Portrait

By Logan Hebner; By (photographer) Michael Plyler
Utah State University Press
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Wildlife on the Wind

A Field Biologist's Journey and an Indian Reservation's Renewal

Utah State University Press
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Going North Thinking West

The Intersections of Social Class, Critical Thinking, and Politicized Writing Instruction

Utah State University Press
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In the Blood

Cape Breton Conversations on Culture

By Burt Feintuch; By (photographer) Gary Samson
Utah State University Press
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Fairy Tale Films

Visions of Ambiguity

Utah State University Press
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Joseph Morris

and the Saga of the Morrisites Revisited

Utah State University Press
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