Utah State University Press imprint: 174 books
Chasing Literacy
Reading and Writing in an Age of Acceleration
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Arguing that composition should renew its interest in reading pedagogy and research, Chasing Literacy offers writing instructors and literacy scholars a framework for understanding and responding to the challenges posed by the proliferation of interactive and multimodal communication technologies...
by Jim Webber
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
An Alternate Pragmatism for Going Public interrogates composition’s most prominent responses to contemporary K–16 education reform. By “going public,” teachers, scholars, and administrators rightfully reassert their expertise against corporate-political standards and assessments like the...
Crossing Divides
Exploring Translingual Writing Pedagogies and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Translingualism perceives the boundaries between languages as unstable and permeable; this creates a complex challenge for writing pedagogy. Writers shift actively among rhetorical strategies from multiple languages, sometimes importing lexical or discoursal tropes from one language into another to...
Still Life with Rhetoric
A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Winner of the 2016 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award and the 2016 CCCC Research Impact Award* *
In Still Life with Rhetoric, Laurie Gries forges connections among new materialism, actor network theory, and rhetoric to explore how images become rhetorically active in a digitally networked,...
Securing a Place for Reading in Composition
The Importance of Teaching for Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Securing a Place for Reading in Composition addresses the dissonance between the need to prepare students to read, not just write, complex texts and the lack of recent scholarship on reading-writing connections. Author Ellen C. Carillo argues that including attention-to-reading practices is crucial...
Writing Program Architecture
Thirty Cases for Reference and Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Writing Program Architecture offers an unprecedented abundance of information concerning the significant material, logistical, and rhetorical features of writing programs. Presenting the realities of thirty diverse and award-winning programs, contributors to the volume describe reporting lines, funding...
by Brian Huot
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Brian Huot's aim for this book is both ambitious and provocative. He wants to reorient composition studies' view of writing assessment. To accomplish this, he not only has to inspire the field to perceive assessment--generally not the most appreciated area of study--as deeply significant to theory...
Around the Texts of Writing Center Work
An Inquiry-Based Approach to Tutor Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
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...
by Peggy O'Neill, Cindy Moore, Brian Huot
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
While most English professionals feel comfortable with language and literacy theories, assessment theories seem more alien. English professionals often don’t have a clear understanding of the key concepts in educational measurement, such as validity and reliability, nor do they understand the statistical...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Keywords in Writing Studies is an exploration of the principal ideas and ideals of an emerging academic field as they are constituted by its specialized vocabulary. A sequel to the 1996 work Keywords in Composition Studies, this new volume traces the evolution of the field’s lexicon, taking into...
On Location
Theory and Practice in Classroom-Based Writing Tutoring
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Classroom-based writing tutoring is a distinct form of writing support, a hybrid instructional method that engages multiple voices and texts within the college classroom. Tutors work on location in the thick of writing instruction and writing activity.
On Location is the first volume to discuss...
Teaching Professional and Technical Communication
A Practicum in a Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
Teaching Professional and Technical Communication guides new instructors in teaching professional and technical communication (PTC). The essays in this volume provide theoretical and applied discussions about the teaching of this diverse subject, including relevant pedagogical approaches, how to apply...
Oral Patterns of Performance
Story and Song
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
To many Native American cultures, songs and stories are dramatic enactments of reality, and words bring reality into existence. In this chapter from his award-winning book, The Anguish of Snails, Toelken thoughtfully approaches a number of stories from Native American traditions, discussing how narratives...
Living Folklore
Introduction to the Study of People and their Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Living Folklore is a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to folklore as it is lived, shared and practiced in contemporary settings. Drawing on examples from diverse American groups and experiences, this text gives the student a strong foundation—from the field’s history and major terms...