Utah State University Press: 175 books
Stories of Our Lives
Memory, History, Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
In Stories of Our Lives Frank de Caro demonstrates the value of personal narratives in enlightening our lives and our world. We all live with legends, family sagas, and anecdotes that shape our selves and give meaning to our recollections. Featuring an array of colorful stories from de Caro’s personal...
by Peggy O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
One of the first collections to focus on independent writing programs, A Field of Dreams offers a complex picture of the experience of the stand-alone. Included here are narratives of individual programs from a wide range of institutions, exploring such issues as what institutional issues led to their...
National Healing
Race, State, and the Teaching of Composition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In National Healing, author Claude Hurlbert persuasively relates nationalism to institutional racism and contends that these are both symptoms of a national ill health afflicting American higher education and found even in the field of writing studies. Teachers and scholars, even in progressive fields...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In the face of the gradual saturation of US public education by the logics of neoliberalism, educators often find themselves at a loss to respond, let alone resist. Through state defunding and many other “reforms” fueled by austerity politics, a majority of educators are becoming casual labor...
The Meaningful Writing Project
Learning, Teaching and Writing in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In the face of the continuing discourse of crisis in US education, The Meaningful Writing Project offers readers an affirming story of writing in higher education that shares students’ experiences in their own voices. In presenting the results of a three-year study consisting of surveys and interviews...
Nowhere Near the Line
Pain and Possibility in Teaching and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
“When I was starting College Presidents for Gun Safety, one of the concerns I heard was the idea that there were just too many issues on which to articulate an opinion. Where would it stop? Where would we draw the line? . . . In light of this latest tragedy, on a college campus that could have been...
Decisions, Agency, and Advising
Key Issues in the Placement of Multilingual Writers into First-Year Composition Courses
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Decisions, Agency, and Advising considers the role of students’ own agency in the placement of multilingual writers—including international students and US residents or citizens who are nonnative users of English—in US college composition programs. Grounded in qualitative research and concerned...
Assessing the Teaching of Writing
Twenty-First Century Trends and Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Although fraught with politics and other perils, teacher evaluation can contribute in important, positive ways to faculty development at both the individual and the departmental levels. Yet the logistics of creating a valid assessment are complicated. Inconsistent methods, rater bias, and overreliance...
Writing Centers and the New Racism
A Call for Sustainable Dialogue and Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Noting a lack of sustained and productive dialogue about race in university writing center scholarship, the editors of this volume have created a rich resource for writing center tutors, administrators, and scholars. Motivated by a scholarly interest in race and whiteness studies, and by an ethical...
Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story
Teaching American Indian Rhetorics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Focusing on the importance of discussions about sovereignty and of the diversity of Native American communities, Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story offers a variety of ways to teach and write about indigenous North American rhetorics.
These essays introduce indigenous rhetorics, framing both...
by Ellen Schendel, William J. Macauley
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
No less than other divisions of the college or university, contemporary writing centers find themselves within a galaxy of competing questions and demands that relate to assessment—questions and demands that usually embed priorities from outside the purview of the writing center itself. Writing...
Conceding Composition
A Crooked History of Composition's Institutional Fortunes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
First-year composition became the most common course in American higher education not because it could “fix” underprepared student writers, but because it has historically served significant institutional interests. That is, it can be “conceded” in multiple ways to help institutions solve...
by Christa Jones, Claudia Schwabe
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2016
*New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales *provides invaluable hands-on materials and pedagogical tools from an international group of scholars who share their experiences in teaching folk- and fairy-tale texts and films in a wide range of academic settings.
This interdisciplinary collection...
Transiciones
Pathways of Latinas and Latinos Writing in High School and College
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Transiciones is a thorough ethnography of seven Latino students in transition between high school and community college or university. Data gathered over two years of interviews with the students, their high school English teachers, and their writing teachers and administrators at postsecondary institutions...