University Press of Colorado: Recent submissions
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Women's ways of making
Knowledge creation has been disparaged as inferior to other expressions. Favoring the hand over the eye (as this collection) problematizes the way the eye has been co-opted as mind's investigation tool. Other senses are ... -
Redefining roles: the professional, faculty, and graduate consultant's guide to writing centers
Recognizes and provides sustained focus on the presence of professional, faculty, and graduate student consultants in writing centers. A number of writing centers employ non-peer consultants, yet most training manuals are ... -
Mountain witches: Yamauba
A guide to the complex figure of Yamauba-female yōkai often translated as mountain witches, who are commonly described as tall, enigmatic women with long hair, piercing eyes, and living in the mountains-evolution of their ... -
Farm: a multimodal reader
A textbook, Farm places the culture of agriculture (by which they mean the "knowledge, beliefs, laws, customs, ethics, and art of a society") at the forefront. Composed of texts (excerpted literary works, essays, recipes, ... -
Writer's style, The: a rhetorical field guide
Designed to help students learn to use style as a rhetorical tool for college writing, taking into account audience, purpose, context, and occasion, A style guide for a new generation but also a new generation of style ... -
Mobility work in composition
Takes mobility to be the norm, rather than the exception to a norm of stasis and stability. Both in-depth investigations of specific forms of mobility work in composition, as well as and responses to and reflections on ... -
Rewriting: how to do things with texts
2nd edition. Harris draws the college writing student away from static ideas of thesis, support, and structure, and toward a more mature and dynamic understanding and to think of intellectual writing as an adaptive and ... -
From military to academy: the writing and learning transitions of student-veterans
Explores the writing and learning transitions of student military veterans at the college level. Providing meaningful research into the ways adult learners bring their knowledge to the classroom offering new ways of thinking ... -
Naming what we know: threshold concepts of writing studies
Naming What We Know, Classroom Edition examines the core principles of knowledge in the discipline of writing studies, using the lens of "threshold concepts"--Concepts that are critical for epistemological participation ... -
Reed Smoot hearings, The: the investigation of a Mormon senator and the transformation of an American religion
Examines the hearings that followed Mormon apostle Reed Smoot's 1903 election to the US Senate and subsequent protests and petitioning efforts from mainstream Christian ministries disputing Smoot's right to serve. Explores ... -
Reading and writing instruction in the twenty-first century: recovering and transforming the pedagogy of Robert Scholes
Contemporary scholars explore and extend the continued relevance of Robert Scholes's work in English and writing studies. Scholes passed in 2016, leaving a legacy focused on textuality and had significant impact on a range ... -
Translingual pedagogical perspectives: engaging domestic and international students in the composition classroom
Addresses the movement toward translingualism in writing classrooms and demonstrates pedagogical strategies faculty can take to represent domestic and international students' perspectives. Contributors explore approaches ... -
Unlearning: rethinking poetics, pandemics, and the politics of knowledge
A provocative theoretical synthesis, Briggs questions intellectual foundations and charts new paths. Through a look back at his own works as well as critical readings, scholars can disrupt existing social and discourse ... -
Equipping technical communicators for social justice work: theories, methodologies, and pedagogies
Provides action-focused resources-heuristics, methodologies, theories-for scholars to enact social justice. These resources support the work of scholars and practitioners in conducting research and teaching classes in ... -
Researching writing: an introduction to research methods
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 ... -
Standing at the threshold: working through liminality in the composition and rhetoric TAship
Articulates identity and role dissonances experienced by composition and rhetoric teaching assistants and reimagines the TAship within a larger professional development process. Current researchers and scholars have not ... -
Engaged archaeology in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico
Organized around the theme of "interdisciplinary perspectives," the authors identify current and near-future trends in archaeological practice in the Southwest US and Northwestern Mexico, including repatriation, community ... -
Greater Chaco landscape, The: ancestors, scholarship, and advocacy
Since mid-1970s, government agencies, scholars, tribes, and private industries have attempted to navigate conflicts involving energy development, Chacoan archaeological study, and preservation across the San Juan Basin. ... -
Gold metal waters: the Animas River and the Gold King Mine spill
Inter- and transdisciplinary examination into the 2015 Gold King Mine spill in Silverton, Colorado, when three million gallons of subterranean mine water, carrying 880,000 pounds of heavy metals, spilled into a tributary ... -
Profiting from the Peak: landscape and liberty in Colorado Springs
Events and socioeconomic conditions that formed Colorado Springs and analyzing the built landscape and spatial layout, focusing on historic architecture. Examines the cultural values that define the city, showing how ...
