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Search For A Common Language : Environmental Writing And Education / by Graulich, Melody, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Who lost the limberlost? Education in a mis-placed age /…”
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She Took Off Her Wings And Shoes / by Bishop, Suzette

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Refiguring Prose Style : Possibilities For Writing Pedagogy /

Table of Contents: “…Cautrell -- Style as a system : toward a cybernetic model of composition style / Drew Loewe -- Teaching the tropics of inquiry in the composition classroom / M. Todd Harper -- Writing with the ear / T.R. Johnson.…”
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Recollections of Past Days : The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer / by Archer, Patience Loader, 1827-1921

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Proverbs Are The Best Policy : Folk Wisdom And American Politics / by Mieder, Wolfgang

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Process This : Undergraduate Writing in Composition Studies / by DeJoy, Nancy C., 1958-

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Private, the Public, and the Published : Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric /

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Polygamy on the Pedernales : Lyman Wight's Mormon Village in Antebellum Texas / by Johnson, Melvin C., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…-- Militant Mormonism on the American frontier -- The wild ram strays from the fold -- Gone to Texas -- Frontier Mormonism in the Texas hill country -- Bishop George Miller and zodiac : 1848-1849 -- Cutting the wild ram from the flock -- Independent Mormonism in antebellum Texas -- Polygamy and a temple on the pedernales -- The Mormon Millers of Hamilton Valley -- The Mormon cowboys of Bandera County -- The way of all flesh.…”
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Placing the Academy : Essays on Landscape, Work, and Identity /

Table of Contents: “…Moore -- The work the landscape calls us to / Michael Sowder -- Valley language / Diana Garcia -- What I learned from the campus plumber / Charles Bergman -- M-i-crooked letter-crooked letter / Katherine Fischer -- On frogs, poems, and teaching at a rural community college / Seán W. …”
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Poets On Place /

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Once Upon A Virus / by Goldstein, Diane E.

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One Side By Himself : The Life and Times of Lewis Barney, 1808-1894 / by Barney, Ronald O., 1949-

Subjects: “…Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.)…”
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On Location : Theory and Practice in Classroom-Based Writing Tutoring /

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My Many Selves : The Quest for a Plausible Harmony / by Booth, Wayne C.

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Marrow of Human Experience, The : Essays on Folklore by William A. Wilson / by Wilson, William Albert, 1861-1951

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The importance of folklore -- The deeper necessity : folklore and the humanities -- Building bridges : folklore in the academy -- Arts and cultural policy -- "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" -- The folk speak : everyday life in pioneer oral narratives -- Documenting folklore -- Folklore and national identity -- Herder, folklore, and romantic nationalism -- Sibelius, the Kalevala, and Karelianism -- Folklore, nationalism, and the challenge of the future -- Finns in a new world : a folkloristic perspective -- Folklore, religion, and who we are -- The concept of the west and other hindrances to the study of Mormon folklore -- The study of Mormon folklore : an uncertain mirror for truth -- On being human : the folklore of Mormon missionaries -- The seriousness of Mormon humor -- Freeways, parking lots, and ice cream stands : three nephites in contemporary Mormon culture -- "Teach me all that I must do" : the practice of Mormon religion -- Personal narratives : the family novel -- A daughter's biography of William A. …”
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Listening For A Life : A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through Her Songs and Stories / by Sawin, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : dialogism and subjectivity -- "That was before I ever left home" : complex accounts of a simple childhood -- "If you had to work as hard as I did, it would kill you" : work, narrative, and self-definition -- "I said, 'don't you do it'" : tracing development as an empowered speaker through reported speech in narrative -- "He never did say anything about my dreams that would worry me after that" : negotiating gender and power in ghost stories -- "I'm a bad one to go pulling jokes on people" : practical joking as a problematic vehicle for oppositional self-definition -- "My singing is my life" : repertoire and performance -- Epilogue.…”
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Machine Scoring of Student Essays : Truth and Consequences /

Table of Contents: “…Haswell -- Interested complicities : the dialectic of computer-assisted writing assessment / Ken S. McAllister and Edward M. White -- The meaning of meaning : is a paragraph more than an equation? …”
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Keywords in Creative Writing / by Bishop, Wendy, 1953-

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Junius And Joseph : Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet / by Wicks, Robert Sigfrid, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…New World Eden : the promise of America in late Jacksonian politics -- "Clear the way for Henry Clay" -- "To save the district for the Whigs" -- "Nauvoo is no place for rational people" -- The third party -- "Missourians seem determined not to let us alone" -- The candidate -- Thy kingdom come-- in Texas -- Two conventions -- What will be the end of things? …”
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Identity Papers : Literacy and Power in Higher Education /

Table of Contents: “…Ottery -- Identity outside the institutional walls -- Migratory and regional identity / Robert Brooke -- Some trouble with discourses: what conflicts between subjects and ethnographers tell us about what students don't/won't/can't say / Sally Chandler -- Composing (identity) in a posttraumatic age / Lynn Worsham -- Conclusion: working bodies: class matters in college composition / Min-zhan Lu.…”
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