Utah State University Press imprint: 174 books
Wildlife on the Wind
A Field Biologist's Journey and an Indian Reservation's Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
In the heart of Wyoming sprawls the ancient homeland of the Eastern Shoshone Indians, who were forced by the U.S. government to share a reservation in the Wind River basin and flanking mountain ranges with their historical enemy, the Northern Arapahos. Both tribes lost their sovereign, wide-ranging...
Coyote Steals Fire
A Shoshone Tale
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
"Coyote was tired of being cold," begins this traditional Shoshone tale about the arrival of fire in the northern Wasatch region. Members of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation developed the concept for this retelling, in collaboration with book arts teacher, Tamara Zollinger. Together,...
by Bruce Mccomiskey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In recent decades, genre studies has focused attention on how genres mediate social activities within workplace and academic settings. Genre and the Performance of Publics moves beyond institutional settings to explore public contexts that are less hierarchical, broadening the theory of how genres...
Crafting Presence
The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Essays are central to students’ and teachers’ development as thinkers in their fields. In Crafting Presence, Nicole B. Wallack develops an approach to teaching writing with the literary essay that holds promise for writing students, as well as for achieving a sense of common purpose currently...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
“What any body is—and is able to do—cannot be disentangled from the media we use to consume and produce texts.” ---from the Introduction.
Kristin Arola and Anne Wysocki argue that composing in new media is composing the body—is embodiment. In Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment),...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
While it has long been understood that the circulation of discourse, bodies, artifacts, and ideas plays an important constitutive force in our cultures and communities, circulation, as a concept and a phenomenon, has been underexamined in studies of rhetoric and writing. In an effort to give circulation...
by Jason Whitmarsh
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Volume 13 in the Swenson Award Series, Tomorrow's Living Room offers a pleasantly disorienting verbal territory. The collection is alternately wry and dark, hopeful and bleak, full of unexpected light and laugh-out-loud incongruities. We begin to see that the shape and the furniture of Jason Whitmarsh's...
A New Writing Classroom
Listening, Motivation, and Habits of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In A New Writing Classroom, Patrick Sullivan provides a new generation of teachers a means and a rationale to reconceive their approach to teaching writing, calling into question the discipline's dependence on argument.
Including secondary writing teachers within his purview, Sullivan advocates...
Joking Asides
The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Nothing in the understanding of humor is as simple as it might seem. In Joking Asides, Elliott Oring confronts the problems of humor, analyzing the key contemporary approaches to its study and addressing controversial topics with new empirical data and insights.
A folklorist drawn to the study...
Discursive Ideologies
Reading Western Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
In Discursive Ideologies, C. H. Knoblauch argues that European rhetorical theory comprises several distinct and fundamentally opposed traditions of discourse. Writing accessibly for the upper division student, Knoblauch resists the conventional narrative of a unified Western rhetorical tradition....
The Writer's Style
A Rhetorical Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Designed to help all writers learn to use style as a rhetorical tool, taking into account audience, purpose, context, and occasion, The Writer’s Style is not only a style guide for a new generation but a new generation of style guide. The book helps writers learn new strategies inductively, by looking...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The Internationalization of US Writing Programs illuminates the role writing programs and WPAs play in defining goals, curriculum, placement, assessment, faculty development, and instruction for international student populations. The volume offers multiple theoretical approaches to the work of writing...
Nature's Burdens
Conservation and American Politics, The Reagan Era to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
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...