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Writing on the Wall

Writing Education and Resistance to Isolationism

Utah State University Press

The first concerted effort of writing studies scholars to interrogate isolationism in the United States, Writing on the Wall reveals how writing teachers—often working directly with students who are immigrants, undocumented, first-generation, international, and students of color—embody ideas that counter isolationism.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Writing Centers and Learning Commons

Staying Centered While Sharing Common Ground

Utah State University Press

Writing Centers and Learning Commons presents program administrators, directors, staff, and tutors with theoretical rationales, experiential journeys, and go-to practical designs and strategies for the many questions involved when writing centers find themselves operating in shared environments.
 

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Unwell Writing Centers

Searching for Wellness in Neoliberal Educational Institutions and Beyond

Utah State University Press

Unwell Writing Centers focuses on the inroads the wellness industry has made into higher education. Following graduate and undergraduate writing tutors during a particularly stressful period (2016–2019), Genie Nicole Giaimo examines how top-down and bottom-up wellness interventions are received and taken up by workers.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Hashtag Activism Interrogated and Embodied

Case Studies on Social Justice Movements

Utah State University Press

Hashtag Activism Interrogated and Embodied analyzes the ways that hashtags repurpose and reclaim societal narratives, considering how these digital interactions carry over into external spaces and are embodied by both participants and spectators alike.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Composing Place

Digital Rhetorics for a Mobile World

Utah State University Press

Composing Place takes an innovative approach to engaging with the compositional affordances of mobile technologies.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration

Utah State University Press

The field of writing program administration has long been a space rich in metaphor. From plate-twirling to fire-extinguishing, parents to dungeon masters, and much more, the work of a WPA extends to horizons unknown. Responding to the constraints of austerity, Toward More Sustainable Metaphors of Writing Program Administration offers new lenses for established WPAs and provides aspiring and early career WPAs with a sense of the range of responsibilities and opportunities in their academic and professional spaces.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Exploring Desert Stone

John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the Colorado

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2010
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Defender

The Life of Daniel H. Wells

Utah State University Press

Defender is the first and only scholarly biography of Daniel H. Wells, an important yet historically neglected leader among the nineteenth-century Mormons.

  • Copyright year: 2016
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Distant Readings of Disciplinarity

Knowing and Doing in Composition/Rhetoric Dissertations

Utah State University Press

In Distant Readings of Disciplinarity, Benjamin Miller brings a big data approach to the study of disciplinarity in rhetoric, composition, and writing studies (RCWS) by developing scalable maps of the methods and topics of several thousand RCWS dissertations from 2001 to 2015.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices

Innovating Teaching across Disciplines

Utah State University Press

Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices demonstrates that it is possible for groups of faculty members to change teaching and learning in radical ways across their programs, despite the current emphasis on efficiency and accountability.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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