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Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom

Utah State University Press

Critical Data Storytelling in the Composition Classroom provides a timely and essential framework for integrating data literacy into multimodal composition pedagogy.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Local Organic

Food Rhetorics and Community Writing for Impact

Utah State University Press

In Local Organic, Veronica House explores ways to collaboratively build resilient local food systems and coalitions across disciplines and communities. 

  • Copyright year: 2025
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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. 

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Historical Archaeology and the Latter-day Saint Past

Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection

Historical Archaeology and the Latter-day Saint Past reviews the history of archaeological investigations at sites connected to the Latter-day Saints and examines the ways archaeology has contributed to the understanding of that past.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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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. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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WPAing in a Pandemic and Beyond

Revision, Innovation, and Advocacy

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2025
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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.
 
 

  • Copyright year: 2025
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The Sound of Mormonism

A Media History of Latter-day Saints

Utah State University Press, Utah State Special Collection

The Sound of Mormonism is an annotated and expanded version of the 2023 lecture “Music & the Unspoken Truth”—an homage to the Music and the Spoken Word radio program and a meditation on the relationships between religion, music, vocality, and quietude.
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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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.
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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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. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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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. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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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. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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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.
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Möbius Media

Popular Culture, Folklore, and the Folkloresque

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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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. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2017
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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.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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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.
 
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Composition Commons

Writing a New Idea of the University

Utah State University Press

The Composition Commons traces the century-long origins of a writing-centered idea of the American university and tracks the resurgence of this idea today.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Revising Moves

Writing Stories of (Re)Making

Utah State University Press
  • Copyright year: 2024
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Mentorship/Methodology

Reflections, Praxis, and Futures

Utah State University Press

Mentorship/Methodology brings together emerging and established scholars to consider the relationship between mentoring practices and research methodologies in writing studies and related fields. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Engaging Ambience

Visual and Multisensory Methodologies and Rhetorical Theory

Utah State University Press

Engaging Ambience is the first book to develop comprehensive empirical approaches to ambient rhetoric, detailing and demonstrating visual and multisensory methodologies and methods for exploring the wondrous complexity of everyday communication.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Westwater Lost and Found

Expanded Edition

Utah State University Press

Westwater Lost and Found: Expanded Edition is the continuing story of Westwater—a relatively short, deep canyon near the Utah-Colorado state line that has become one of the most popular river-running destinations in America—and its lasting significance to the study of the Upper Colorado River. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Reaching All Writers

A Pedagogical Guide for Evolving College Writing Classrooms

Utah State University Press

Reaching All Writers brings together decades of writing studies experience, research, and scholarship to help organize first-year writing courses around inclusive teaching practices and foundational concepts that support disciplinary learning for all college writers, including students who have been excluded from more selective higher-education institutions.
 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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The Rhetorical Mediator

Understanding Agency in Indigenous Translation and Interpretation through Indigenous Approaches to UX

Utah State University Press

The Rhetorical Mediator reveals how and why scholars and user experience (UX) researchers can include Indigenous technical communicators and oral interpretation practices in their interdisciplinary conversations.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer

Utah State University Press

Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer explores transfer across various contexts of multimodal composing, extending the early conversations connecting multimodality to writing. 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Environmental Preservation and the Grey Cliffs Conflict

Negotiating Common Narratives, Values, and Ethos

Utah State University Press

Based on a qualitative, ethnographic, observational case study approach, Environmental Preservation and the Grey Cliffs Conflict presents an analysis of the conflict negotiation between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a local community that struggled to address a deteriorating Corps-managed recreational lake area in Tennessee known as “Grey Cliffs.”
 

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Feminist Technical Communication

Apparent Feminisms, Slow Crisis, and the Deepwater Horizon Disaster

Utah State University Press

Feminist Technical Communication introduces readers to technical communication methodology, demonstrating how rhetorical feminist approaches are vital to the future of technical communication. 

  • Copyright year: 2023
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