Utah State University Press: 175 books
Haywire
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Tenth annual winner of the May Swenson Poetry Award, Haywire is a well-polished collection from a highly accomplished poet. With humor, compassion, and an unflinching eye, Bilgere explores the human condition in accessible lines and a magician's way with language. In images bright and dark, tangible...
Activist WPA, The
Changing Stories About Writing and Writers
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2008
One wonders if there is any academic field that doesn’t suffer from the way it is portrayed by the media, by politicians, by pundits and other publics. How well scholars in a discipline articulate their own definition can influence not only issues of image but the very success of the discipline...
Zorba's Daughter
poems
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In Zorba's Daughter, the 14th volume in the Swenson Poetry Award series, Elisabeth Murawski speaks from a vital and unique sensibility, finding in ordinary images an opening to the passion of human courage in the face of deep existential pain and ambivalence. These poems awaken our joy as well as...
The River Knows Everything
Desolation Canyon and the Green
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Desolation Canyon is one of the West's wild treasures. Visitors come to study, explore, run the river, and hike a canyon that is deeper at its deepest than the Grand Canyon, better preserved than most of the Colorado River system, and full of eye-catching geology-castellated ridges, dramatic walls,...
River Flowing From The Sunrise
An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
The authors recount twelve millennia of history along the lower San Juan River, much of it the story of mostly unsuccessful human attempts to make a living from the river's arid and fickle environment. From the Anasazi to government dam builders, from Navajo to Mormon herders and farmers, from scientific...
Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy
The Introduction and Implementation of the Principle, 1830–1853
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
In Revelation, Resistance, and Mormon Polygamy historian Merina Smith explores the introduction of polygamy in Nauvoo, a development that unfolded amid scandal and resistance. Smith considers the ideological, historical, and even psychological elements of the process and captures the emotional and...
by Deirdre Paulsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1985
With his animated tales of Zane Grey, Butch Cassidy, and the Robbers Roost gang, Rider creates an engaging and believable picture of the joys and hardships of cowboy life.
Organic Writing Assessment
Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Educators strive to create “assessment cultures” in which they integrate evaluation into teaching and learning and match assessment methods with best instructional practice. But how do teachers and administrators discover and negotiate the values that underlie their evaluations? Bob Broad’s...
Writing New Media
Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
As new media mature, the changes they bring to writing in college are many and suggest implications not only for the tools of writing, but also for the contexts, personae, and conventions of writing. An especially visible change has been the increase of visual elements-from typographic flexibility...
Exploring Composition Studies
Sites, Issues, Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Kelly Ritter and Paul Kei Matsuda have created an essential introduction to the field of composition studies for graduate students and instructors new to the study of writing. The book offers a careful exploration of this diverse field, focusing specifically on scholarship of writing and composing....
Researching Writing
An Introduction to Research Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
*Researching Writing *is an accessible, informative textbook that teaches undergraduates how to conduct ethical, authentic research in writing studies. The book introduces students to the research approaches used most often and offers a course framework for professors creating or teaching research...
by Ian Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
In Upsetting Composition Commonplaces, Ian Barnard argues that composition still retains the bulk of instructional practices that were used in the decades before poststructuralist theory discredited them. While acknowledging that some of the foundational insights of poststructuralist theory can be...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Although it is well known in other fields, the concept of “resilience” has not been addressed explicitly by feminist rhetoricians. This collection develops it in readings of rhetorical situations across a range of social contexts and national cultures. Contributors demonstrate that resilience...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Writing studies has been dominated throughout its history by grand narratives of the discipline, but in this volume Bruce McComiskey begins to explore microhistory as a way to understand, enrich, and complicate how the field relates to its past. Microhistory investigates the dialectical interaction...