books by Utah State University Press     books:     Utah State Univers...      Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions Martha Sims, Martine Stephens Utah State University Press, 2005 Great introduction to the study of folklore Finally, an introduction-to-folklore textbook that doesn't read like a textbook. The clarity, illustrations, and organization of this book are perfect for folklore students. I wish I had a book like this when I was a beginning student.             Rewriting: How To Do Things With Texts Joseph Harris Utah State University Press, 2006 Recommended for intermediate to advanced academic writers Written by Duke University Writing Program director Joseph Harris, Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts is a guide written especially for college students and professionals seeking to refine their academic writing technique. Leaning away from the static ideas of ...             Dynamics Of Folklore Barre Toelken Utah State University Press, 1996 Curious about folklore? Then read this book! Unfortunately, I think the somewhat quaint words "folk" and "lore" in "folklore" throw people off and make them dimiss folklore studies as a trivial or insignificant field of scholarship. "Folklore" just doesn't have the imposing sound of similar fields like ...             Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition Anne Wysocki Utah State University Press, 2004 new pedagogies The book is an attempt by its authors to come to grips with the effect of the Internet on how to teach writing skills to a university audience. It shows how students are becoming, or indeed have become, facile with elaborate typography and colours, and images and ...             Reflection In The Writing Classroom Kathleen Yancey Utah State University Press, 1998 Comprehensive Even after 10 years, this is still one of the most cited books about working with reflection in the composition classrooom. The categorization of different types of reflections is extremely useful, especially when coupled with discussions of limits and benefits of ...             Manual of Grasses for North America Utah State University Press, 2007 Manual of Grasses for North America I teach Grassland ecology at a university and I am often asked to key out various species of grasses by individuals from the public. This book is an excellent purchase and I would recommend it to anyone with an interest in grasses, botany or grassland ecology. The ...             Genre And The Invention Of The Writer Anis Bawarshi Utah State University Press, 2003             First Time Up: An Insider's Guide for New Composition Teachers Brock Dethier Utah State University Press, 2005 Documents the often difficult experience of teaching contemporary college students First Time Up: An Insider's Guide For Composition Teachers by Brock Dethier (Coordinator of Advanced Composition at Utah State University) is an in-depth and instructive presentation reflecting the values which may be placed on effectively teaching composition in the ...             Folk Groups And Folklore Genres: An Introduction Utah State University Press, 1986 Folk Groups And Folklore Genres Folk Groups And Folklore Genres consists of a series of essays by leading scholars which give the student a solid sense of major folklore topics and interpretive techniques. The volume provides examples and analyses of particular folklore forms, events, and ...             Folk Groups And Folklore Genres: A Reader Elliott Oring Utah State University Press, 1989             Utah Wildflowers: A Field Guide To Northern And Central Mountains And Valleys Richard J. Shaw Utah State University Press, 1995 Wasatch Hikers Delight If you live along the Wasatch Front and hike the many canyons of the Wasatch then this is the book for you. The Photographs are beautiful and show the flowers well, the text is interesting and tells of past uses of the plants by indians and settlers, and the book is ...             Woman of the River: Georgie White Clark, White Water Pioneer Dick Westwood Utah State University Press, 1997 Trips, travails, and triumphsý You may be as surprised by this book as I was - I bought it thinking that I OUGHT to read it to learn more about a river-running legend, but I didn't expect to enjoy it all that much. I was wrong. Author Richard Westwood engagingly tells the story of Georgie White ...             Ghosts And The Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends Barre Toelken Utah State University Press, 1994 Best Book on Japanese Ghosts There are obviously far better books on the subject available in Japanese, but this is the best English-language text I've ever found on the subject of Japanese ghosts. However, readers should be forewarned that the first half of the book reads like an ...             Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education Utah State University Press, 2006 the place and role of identity in getting a college education With a passport in the background of the cover, the title is a play on how a passport is a means of identity allowing one to pass across borders, while denoting particularly papers students write in English courses. The college English teachers who are the authors of ...             Out Of The Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernatural Utah State University Press, 1995 These essays explore belief and supernatural experience within an array of cultures and challenge the idea that supernatural experience is extraordinary.          products you might be interested in search for books applications, composition, introduction, supernatural, traditions, wildflowers      toavi.com    web we recommend Recommended for intermediate to advanced academic writers randomly chosen book: Streifzuge - Level 10