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Writing at the State U
Instruction and Administration at 106 Comprehensive Universities
By Emily Isaacs
Utah State University Press
Writing at the State U presents a comprehensive, empirical examination of writing programs at 106 universities. Rather than using open survey calls and self-reporting, Emily Isaacs uses statistical analysis to show the extent to which established principles of writing instruction and administration have been implemented at state comprehensive universities, the ways in which writing at those institutions has differed from writing at other institutions over time, and how state institutions have responded to major scholarly debates concerning first-year composition and writing program administration.
- Copyright year: 2017
Points of Departure
Rethinking Student Source Use and Writing Studies Research Methods
Edited by Tricia Serviss and Sandra Jamieson
Utah State University Press
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 teach information literacy. In so doing, the volume advances our understanding of how students actually write.
- Copyright year: 2017
Class in the Composition Classroom
Pedagogy and the Working Class
Edited by Genesea M. Carter and William H. Thelin
Utah State University Press
Class in the Composition Classroom considers what college writing instructors should know about their working-class students—their backgrounds, experiences, identities, learning styles, and skills—in order to support them in the classroom, across campus, and beyond. In this volume, contributors explore the nuanced and complex meaning of “working class” and the particular values these college writers bring to the classroom.
- Copyright year: 2017
Inventing the World Grant University
Chinese International Students’ Mobilities, Literacies, and Identities
Utah State University Press
Through an exploration of the literacy practices of undergraduate Chinese international students in the United States and China, Inventing the World Grant University demonstrates the ways in which writing, public speaking, disciplinary literacies, and humanities-based curricula are constructed and enacted across institutional and geographic borders.
- Copyright year: 2017
Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition
Utah State University Press
Post-Truth Rhetoric and Composition is a timely exploration of the increasingly widespread and disturbing effect of “post-truth” on public discourse in the United States. Bruce McComiskey analyzes the instances of bullshit, fake news, feigned ethos, hyperbole, and other forms of post-truth rhetoric employed in recent political discourse.
- Copyright year: 2017
Writing Program Architecture
Thirty Cases for Reference and Research
Edited by Bryna Siegel Finer and Jamie White-Farnham
Utah State University Press
An unprecedented abundance of information concerning the significant material, logistical, and rhetorical features of writing programs and the realities of thirty diverse and award-winning programs.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Politics of Writing Studies
Reinventing Our Universities from Below
Utah State University Press
A friendly critique of the field, The Politics of Writing Studies examines a set of recent pivotal texts in composition to show how writing scholarship, in an effort to improve disciplinary prestige and garner institutional resources, inadvertently reproduces structures of inequality within American higher education. Not only does this enable the exploitation of contingent faculty, but it also puts writing studies—a field that inherently challenges many institutional hierarchies—in a debased institutional position and at odds with itself.
- Copyright year: 2017
Rewriting
How to Do Things with Texts, Second Edition
Utah State University Press
Joseph Harris draws the college writing student away from static ideas of thesis, support, and structure, and toward a more mature and dynamic understanding. Harris wants college writers to think of intellectual writing as an adaptive and social activity, and he offers them a clear set of strategies—a set of moves—for participating in it.
- Copyright year: 2017
Crossing Divides
Exploring Translingual Writing Pedagogies and Programs
Edited by Bruce Horner and Elliot Tetreault
Utah State University Press
Crossing Divides offers diverse perspectives from leading scholars on the design and implementation of translingual writing pedagogies and programs.
- Copyright year: 2017
Crafting Presence
The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies
Utah State University Press
Nicole B. Wallack develops an approach to teaching writing with the literary essay.
- Copyright year: 2016
Nature's Burdens
Conservation and American Politics, The Reagan Era to the Present
Utah State University Press
Nature’s Burdens is a political and intellectual history of American natural resource conservation from the 1980s into the twenty-first century—a period of intense political turmoil, shifting priorities among federal policymakers, and changing ideas about the goals of conservation. Telling a story of persistent activism, conflict, and frustration but also of striking achievement, it is an account of how new ideas and policies regarding human relationships to plants, animals, and their surroundings have become vital features of modern environmentalism.
- Copyright year: 2017
Around the Texts of Writing Center Work
An Inquiry-Based Approach to Tutor Education
By R. Mark Hall
Utah State University Press
Around the Texts of Writing Center Work reveals the conceptual frameworks found in and created by ordinary writing center documents. The values and beliefs underlying course syllabi, policy statements, website copy and comments, assessment plans, promotional flyers, and annual reports critically inform writing center practices, including the vital undertaking of tutor education.
- Copyright year: 2017
Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs
Utah State University Press
From scholars working in a variety of institutional and geographic contexts and with a wide range of student populations, Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programsoffers perspectives on how first-year writing can support or hinder students’ transitions to college. The contributors present individual and program case studies, surveys of thousands of students, a wealth of institutional retention data, and critical policy analysis.
- Copyright year: 2017
The Meaningful Writing Project
Learning, Teaching and Writing in Higher Education
Utah State University Press
- Copyright year: 2017
Economies of Writing
Revaluations in Rhetoric and Composition
Utah State University Press
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.
- Copyright year: 2016
Hosea Stout
Lawman, Legislator, Mormon Defender
Utah State University Press
- Copyright year: 2016
Heroes, Hero Worship, and Brigham Young
Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection
Exploring Composition Studies
Sites, Issues, Perspectives
Edited by Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda
Utah State University Press
- Copyright year: 2012
The Montana Vigilantes 1863–1870
Gold,Guns and Gallows
Utah State University Press
Historians and novelists alike have described the vigilantism that took root in the gold-mining communities of Montana in the mid-1860s, but Mark C. Dillon is the first to examine the subject through the prism of American legal history, considering the state of criminal justice and law enforcement in the western territories and also trial procedures, gubernatorial politics, legislative enactments, and constitutional rights.
- Copyright year: 2013
Decisions, Agency, and Advising
Key Issues in the Placement of Multilingual Writers into First-Year Composition Courses
Utah State University Press
Decisions, Agency, and Advising considers the role of students’ own agency in the placement of multilingual writers in US college composition programs.
- Copyright year: 2016
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