Author: Brian Huot
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Keywords: assessment, writing, articulating
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2002-11-08
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0874214491
ISBN-13: 9780874214499

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 and pedagogy, he also has to counter some common misconceptions about the history of assessment in writing. In (Re)Articulating Writing Assessment, Huot advocates a new understanding, a more optimistic and productive one than we have seen in composition for a very long time. Assessment, as Huot poin

Author: Bronwyn T Williams
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Keywords: higher, education, power, literacy, papers, identity
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0874216494
ISBN-13: 9780874216493

How do definitions of literacy in the academy, and the pedagogies that reinforce such definitions, influence and shape our identities as teachers, scholars, and students? The contributors gathered here reflect on those moments when the dominant cultural and institutional definitions of our identities conflict with our other identities, shaped by class, race, gender, sexual orientation, location, or other cultural factors. These writers explore the struggle, identify the sources of conflict, and discuss how they respond personally to such tensions in their scholarship, teaching, and administra

Author: Joseph Harris
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Keywords: texts, things, rewriting
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2006-07-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0874216427
ISBN-13: 9780874216424

"Like all writers, intellectuals need to say something new and say it well. But unlike many other writers, what intellectuals have to say is bound up with the books we are reading . . . and the ideas of the people we are talking with." What are the moves that an academic writer makes? How does writing as an intellectual change the way we work from sources? In Rewriting, a textbook for the undergraduate classroom, Joseph Harris draws the college writing student away from static ideas of thesis, support, and structure, and toward a more mature and dynamic understanding. Harris wants college wr

Author: Bob Broad
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Keywords: assessing, writing, teaching, rubrics, value, really
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 2003-03-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0874215536
ISBN-13: 9780874215533

Author: Elliott Oring
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Keywords: introduction, genres, folklore, groups, folk
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1986-08-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 087421128X
ISBN-13: 9780874211283

Authors:Mary E. Barkworth, Laurel K. Anderton, Kathleen M. C
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Keywords: america, north, grasses, manual
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0874216869
ISBN-13: 9780874216868

Grasses are the world’s most important plants. They are the dominant species over large parts of the earth’s land surface, a fact that is reflected in the many different words that exist for grasslands, words such as prairie, veldt, palouse, and pampas to mention just a few. As a group, grasses are of major ecological importance, as soil binders and providers of shelter and food for wild animals, both large and small. Some grasses, such as wheat, rice, corn, barley, rye, tef, and sugar cane are major sources of calories for humans and their livestock; others, primarily bamboos, are used fo

Authors:Beverly Crum, Earl Crum, Jon P. Dayley,
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Keywords: songs, poetry, shoshoni, hupia, newe
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-02-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0874214130
ISBN-13: 9780874214130

Newe Hupia is sold with a CD recording and presents the poetry of Shoshoni songs in written form, with both figurative and literal English translations, and through recorded performances by Earl and Beverly Crum. An introduction and commentary discuss the Shoshoni language and the cultural background, meaning, forms, and performance contexts of the songs, here organized into dance, medicine, and other categories. Glossaries of Shoshoni terms are included. The first major linguistic study of Shoshoni songs, Newe Hupia marks a significant achievement in the preservation of Shoshoni language and