Utah State University Press imprint: 174 books
Uranium Frenzy
Saga of the Nuclear West
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Now expanded to include the story of nuclear testing and its consequences, Uranium Frenzy has become the classic account of the uranium rush that gripped the Colorado Plateau region in the 1950s. Instigated by the U.S. government's need for uranium to fuel its growing atomic weapons program, stimulated...
Very Like a Whale
The Assessment of Writing Programs
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Winner of the 2015 CPTSC Award for Excellence in Program Assessment
Written for those who design, redesign, and assess writing programs, Very Like a Whale is an intensive discussion of writing program assessment issues. Taking its title from Hamlet, the book explores the multifaceted forces...
Healing Logics
Culture and Medicine in Modern Health Belief Systems
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 1802
Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of medicine—such as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural issues—than ever before. Old models of investigation that artificially isolated "folk medicine," "complementary...
Playing Dead
Mock Trauma and Folk Drama in Staged High School Drunk Driving Tragedies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
As the Grim Reaper pulls a student out of class to be a “victim” of drunk driving in a program called “Every 15 Minutes,” Montana Miller observes the ritual through a folklorist’s lens. Playing Dead examines why hundreds of American schools and communities each year organize these mock tragedies...
Pole Raising and Speech Making
Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In Pole Raising and Speech Making, author Jennifer Eastman Attebery focuses on the beginnings of the traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration and the surrounding spring-to-summer seasonal festivities in the Rocky Mountain West during the height of Swedish immigration to the area—1880–1917.
Combining...
After the Public Turn
Composition, Counterpublics, and the Citizen Bricoleur
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
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...
First Time Up
An Insider'S Guide For New Composition Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
"First time up?"—an insider’s friendly question from 1960s counter-culture—perfectly captures the spirit of this book. A short, supportive, practical guide for the first-time college composition instructor, the book is upbeat, wise but friendly, casual but knowledgeable (like the voice...
Assignments across the Curriculum
A National Study of College Writing
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In Assignments across the Curriculum, Dan Melzer analyzes the rhetorical features and genres of writing assignments through the writing-to-learn and writing-in-the-disciplines perspectives. Presenting the results of his study of 2,101 writing assignments from undergraduate courses in the natural sciences,...
Applied Pedagogies
Strategies for Online Writing Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Teaching any subject in a digital venue must be more than simply an upload of the face-to-face classroom and requires more flexibility than the typical learning management system affords. Applied Pedagogies examines the pedagogical practices employed by successful writing instructors in digital classrooms...
Class in the Composition Classroom
Pedagogy and the Working Class
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
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...
Reclaiming Accountability
Improving Writing Programs through Accreditation and Large-Scale Assessments
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Reclaiming Accountability brings together a series of critical case studies of writing programs that have planned, implemented, and/or assessed the impact of large-scale accreditation-supported initiatives. The book reimagines accreditation as a way to leverage institutional or programmatic change.
Contributions...
Repurposing Composition
Feminist Interventions for a Neoliberal Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In Repurposing Composition, Shari J. Stenberg responds to the increasing neoliberal discourse of academe through the feminist practice of repurposing. In doing so, she demonstrates how tactics informed by feminist praxis can repurpose current writing pedagogy, assessment, public engagement, and other...
WPAs in Transition
Navigating Educational Leadership Positions
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
WPAs in Transition shares a wide variety of professional and personal perspectives about the costs, benefits, struggles, and triumphs experienced by writing program administrators making transitions into and out of leadership positions. Contributors to the volume come from various positions, as writing...
by Jackie Grutsch McKinney
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
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...