RESEARCH W E E K 2020 USU FA C U LT Y AUTH O R CIRCUL AR
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Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States * Don Albrecht
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The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History Darren Parry
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Being Elizabethan: Understanding Shakespeare’s Neighbors Norm Jones
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Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture Claudia Schwabe
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Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West * Christopher M. Scheer
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Enhancing Teacher Education, Development, and Evaluation: Lessons Learned from Educational Reform * Alyson L. Lavigne
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Family Therapy Supervision in Extraordinary Settings: Illustrations of Systematic Approaches in Everyday Clinical Work * Thorana S. Nelson
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Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts * Christopher González
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Lifespan: Why We Age – And Why We Don’t Have To * Matthew LaPlante
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The Framers’ Intentions: The Myth of the Nonpartisan Constitution Robert E. Ross
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Hands-on Scikit-Learn for Machine Learning Applications: Data Science Fundamentals with Python David Paper
Low-Tech Proccess-Based Restoration of Riverscapes: Design Manual * Stephen Bennett, Nicolaas Bouwes, & Joseph Wheaton
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The Innovation Imperative: Can Extension Change? * Paul Hill
Mandarin Chinese Dual Language Immersion Programs * Ko-Yin Sung
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Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems Shanan Ballam
Mormonism and Violence: The Battles of Zion Patrick Mason
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Multicultural Psychology, 5th Edition * Melanie M. Domenech Rodriguez
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Judicial Merit Selection: Institutional Design and Performance for State Courts Greg Goelzhauser
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Mythology Unbound Susan Shapiro
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One of Us: A Biologist’s Walk Among Bears Barrie K. Gilbert
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Speaking of Culture Nolan Weil
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Photothermal Spectroscopy Methods, 2nd Edition * Stephen E. Bialkowski
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Superlative: The Biology of Extremes Matthew LaPlante
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A Practical Guide for Rhetorical Readers, Thinkers, and Writers * Barbara Pescar
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Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language * Ko-Yin Sung
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Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776-1830 Kerin Holt
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Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action * Rebecca Walton
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Reel Latinxs: Representation in U.S. Film and TV * Christopher González
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Rewilding * Johan T. du Toit
Water Resource Management Issues: Basic Principles and Applications * R. Ryan Dupont
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Sociological Studies of Environmental Conflict * Mehmet Soyer
We’ve Tried That Before: 500 Years of Extension Wisdom * Paul Hill
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Writing for Electronic Media Brian Champagne
The Faculty Author Circular recognizes USU faculty who published a book in the previous year. USU Libraries and the Office of Research would like to acknowledge this impressive accomplishment that 31 members of our faculty achieved in 2019. Congratulations to our faculty on their accomplishments!
* Publication has authors from multiple institutions. This booklet is intended to recognize the contributions of USU researchers.
Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States Don Albrecht Executive Director of Western Rural Development Center The concept of community, in all its diverse definitions and manifestations, provides a unique approach to learn more about how groups of individuals and organizations are addressing the challenges posed by climate change. This new volume highlights specific cases of communities developing innovative approaches to climate mitigation and adaptation around the United States. Defining community more comprehensively than just spatial geography to include also communities of interest, identity, and practice, this book highlights how individuals and organizations are addressing the challenges posed by climate change through more resilient social processes, government policies, and sustainable practices.
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The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History Darren Parry History Even though the Bear River Massacre was a defining event in the history of the Northwest Band of the Shoshone, in Parry’s retelling the massacre did not trap his people in death, but offered them rebirth. While never flinching from the realities of Latter-day Saint encroachment on Shoshone land and the racial ramifications of America’s spread westward, Parry offers messages of hope. As storyteller for his people, Parry brings the full weight of Shoshone wisdom to his tales—lessons of peace in the face of violence, of strength in the teeth of annihilation, of survival through change, and of the pliability necessary for cultural endurance. These are arresting stories told disarmingly well. What emerges from the margins of these stories is much more than a history of a massacre from the Shoshone perspective, it is a poignant meditation on the resilience of the soul of a people.
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Being Elizabethan: Understanding Shakespeare’s Neighbors Norm Jones History Elizabethans lived through a time of cultural collapse and rejuvenation as the impacts of globalization, the religious Reformation, economic and scientific revolutions, wars, and religious dissent forced them to reformulate their ideas of God, nation, society, and self. This wellwritten, accessible book depicting how Elizabethans perceived reality and acted on their perceptions illustrates Elizabethan life, offering readers well-told stories about the Elizabethan people and the world around them. It defines the older ideas of pre-Elizabethan culture and shows how they were shattered and replaced by a new culture based on the emergence of individual conscience. The book posits that post-Reformation English culture, emphasizing the internalization of religious certainties, embraced skepticism in ways that valued individualism over older communal values.
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Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Pop Culture Claudia Schwabe Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies This book analyzes supernatural creatures in order to demonstrate how German fairy tales treat difference, alterity, and Otherness with terror, distance, and negativity, whereas contemporary North American popular culture adaptations navigate diversity by humanizing and redeeming such figures. This trend of transformation reflects a greater tolerance of other marginalized groups (in regard to race, ethnicity, ability, age, gender, sexual orientation, social class, religion, etc.) and acceptance of diversity in society today. The fairy-tale adaptations examined here are more than just twists on old stories—they serve as the looking glasses of significant cultural trends, customs, and social challenges. Craving Supernatural Creatures is a unique contribution to the field of fairy-tale studies and is essential reading for students, scholars, and pop-culture aficionados alike.
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Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West Christopher M. Scheer Music History Occultist philosopher Helena Blavatsky and her successors identified the American West as the perfect site for a rebirth and re-enchantment of humanity, drawing those seeking spiritual fulfilment outside of organized religion to the dramatic landscapes of California, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. The syncretic nature of Theosophy allowed for and even encouraged individualism in belief, making Theosophy a good fit for the notions of freedom and personal agency that characterized the American West in the popular imaginary. Among those drawn to the American West seeking spiritual answers in the early 20th century were artists. Building on this precedent, Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, the Arts and the American West is the first publication devoted to studying these relationships in art and music.
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Enhancing Teacher Education, Development, and Evaluation: Lessons Learned from Educational Reform Alyson L. Lavigne School of Teacher Education and Leadership This text examines the complex role that recent educational reforms have played in the teaching profession. The failure of programs like Race to the Top to benefit teaching and learning outcomes has yielded many questions about what went wrong and how a researchbased plan for true systemic progress could actually work. Covering inaccurate narratives about schools and student achievement, evidence for teacher effectiveness, and the history and repercussions of Race to the Top, this book culminates with a proposal for future research and policy initiatives that more accurately and more equitably prioritize the measurement and improvement of teaching and learning.
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Family Therapy Supervision in Extraordinary Settings: Illustrations of Systematic Approaches in Everyday Clinical Work Thorana S. Nelson Human Development and Family Studies This text showcases the dynamism of systemic family therapy supervision/consultation as it expands beyond typical and historical traditions. In this unique collection, contributors write about their innovations, unexpected learnings, and “perfect accidents” in the context of systemic therapy. These essays highlight creative approaches to supervision, present a wide variety of clinical cases and therapy settings, and demonstrate how training takes place in real time.
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The Framers’ Intentions: The Myth of the Nonpartisan Constitution Robert E. Ross Political Science Robert Ross addresses a fascinating and unresolved constitutional question: why did political parties emerge so quickly after the framers designed the Constitution to prevent them? The text of the Constitution is silent on this question. Most scholars of the subject have taken that silence to be a hostile one, arguing that the adoption of the two-party system was a significant break from a long history of antiparty sentiments and institutional design aimed to circumscribe party politics.
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Hands-on Scikit-Learn for Machine Learning Applications: Data Science Fundamentals with Python David Paper Management Information Systems Aspiring data science professionals can learn the Scikit-Learn library along with the fundamentals of machine learning with this book. The book combines the Anaconda Python distribution with the popular Scikit-Learn library to demonstrate a wide range of supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms. Care is taken to walk readers through the principles of machine learning through clear examples written in Python that they can try out and experiment with at home with their own machine.
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The Innovation Imperative: Can Extension Change? Paul Hill Economic Development This is a book developed from a report on innovation submitted to the Extension Committee on Organization and Policy. It is a collection of creative insights from 17 Extension leaders and innovations from 12 land grant universities about innovation in leadership, innovation in learner engagement, positive change in Extension culture, and innovation in Extension hiring practices. The purpose of this book was to explore innovation, what it means to Extension, and how we can apply innovation in Extension.
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Inside the Animal: The Collected Red Riding Hood Poems Shanan Ballam English Shanan Ballam’s latest poetry collection encompasses some of her 2010 chapbook The Red Riding Hood Papers. A number of poems from the earlier work have been dropped as the poet has sharpened her focus, and new poems have extended and deepened her engagement with the old tale about a girl, her grandmother, and a wolf. Ballam’s exquisite craftsmanship, particularly her sonic structuring, distinguishes her from many of her peers and her gift for narrative gives her work a compelling momentum. Inside the Animal is a strong entry in the rosters of both poetry and fairy-tale literature. These are poems to read and reread, for the richness of their language and imagery and for the pleasures of the story they tell.
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Judicial Merit Selection: Institutional Design and Performance for State Courts Greg Goelzhauser Political Science The judicial selection debate continues. Merit selection is used by a majority of states but remains the least well understood method for choosing judges. Proponents claim that it emphasizes qualifications and diversity over politics, but there is little empirical evidence regarding its performance. Goelzhauser’s analyses include a rich case study from inside a nominating commission’s proceedings as it works to choose nominees; the use of public records to examine which applicants commissions choose and which nominees governors choose; evaluation of which attorneys apply for consideration and which judges apply for promotion; and examination of whether design differences across systems impact performance in the seating of qualified and diverse judges. The results have critical public policy implications.
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Latinx Studies: The Key Concepts Christopher González English This text is an accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Latinx Studies globally. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in Latinx Studies. At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, it provides over 25 key concepts to the field of Latinx Studies as shaped within historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts.
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Lifespan: Why We Age – And Why We Don’t Have To Matthew LaPlante Journalism and Communication It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taught to believe about aging is wrong? What if we could choose our lifespan? In this groundbreaking book, Dr. David Sinclair, leading world authority on genetics and longevity, reveals a bold new theory for why we age. As he writes: “Aging is a disease, and that disease is treatable.” This eye-opening and provocative work takes us to the frontlines of research that is pushing the boundaries on our perceived scientific limitations, revealing incredible breakthroughs— many from Dr. David Sinclair’s own lab at Harvard—that demonstrate how we can slow down, or even reverse, aging. Recent experiments in genetic reprogramming suggest that in the near future we may not just be able to feel younger, but actually become younger.
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Low-Tech Proccess-Based Restoration of Riverscapes: Design Manual Stephen Bennett, Nicolaas Bouwes, & Joseph Wheaton Watershed Sciences This design manual’s purpose is to provide restoration practitioners with guidelines for implementing a subset of lowtech tools—namely beaver dam analogues and post-assisted log structures—for initiating process-based restoration in structurally-starved riverscapes. While the concept of processbased restoration in riverscapes has been advocated for at least two decades, details and specific examples on how to implement it remain sparse. This manual describes “low-tech processbased restoration” as a practice of using simple, low unit-cost, structural additions (e.g. wood and beaver dams) to riverscapes to mimic functions and initiate specific processes.
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Mandarin Chinese Dual Language Immersion Programs Ko-Yin Sung Chinese This book discusses multiple aspects of Chinese dual language immersion (DLI) programs. The first part of the book focuses on the parents, teachers, and school administrators. It looks at the perceptions of the three groups toward the Utah model, how they build a supportive DLI classroom with an emphasis on teacher–teacher and teacher– parent communication, and how the teachers position themselves in teaching through their teacher identities. The second part of the book emphasizes classroom research and explores teaching and learning strategies, corrective feedback and learner uptake and repair, translanguaging in authentic teacher–student interaction, and Chinesecharacter teaching. As the first DLI book to include a non-alphabetical language, Chinese, it addresses the need for more research on DLI programs of languages other than Spanish. The book will benefit not only Chinese DLI educators and administrators in the US, but will also offer some useful suggestions and thoughts to educators and administrators of similar programs worldwide. USU Faculty Author Circular | 16
Mormonism and Violence: The Battles of Zion Patrick Mason Religious Studies In popular culture and scholarship, a consistent trope about Mormonism is that it features a propensity for violence, born of the religion’s theocratic impulses and the antinomian tendencies of special revelation. Mormonism and Violence critically assesses the relationship of Mormonism and violence through a close examination of Mormon history and scripture, focusing on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Element pays special attention to violence in the Book of Mormon and the history of the movement, from the 1830s to the present.
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Multicultural Psychology, 5th Edition Melanie M. Domenech Rodriguez Psychology This new edition combines research with actual real narratives to examine multicultural issues and capture the richness of diverse cultures. The text covers compelling topics such as differences in world views, communication, racial and cultural identity, development, racism, and immigration, as well as gender, sexuality, age, and ability. It presents a broad foundation for understanding the issues psychologists address when studying culture and the practical applications of theory in today’s society. The personal stories and discussions of current events make the text relatable to students’ lives.
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Mythology Unbound Susan Shapiro History There are actually many different types of myth, not just three. In fact, there are several entire theories of myth. The theoretical study of myth is very complex; many books have been written about theories of myth, and entire courses could be dedicated to just theories of myth (without studying any of the myths themselves). The problem with theories of myth, however, is that they are not very good; they don’t do a great job of explaining the myths or in helping students understand them. Furthermore, the myths themselves are much more interesting than the theories. This online textbook contains articles on each major deity, hero, monster, etc., in Greek mythology. The text is supplemented with color photographs and maps to enhance the learning experience.
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One of Us: A Biologist’s Walk Among Bears Barrie K. Gilbert Wildland Resources Barrie Gilbert’s fascination with grizzly bears almost got him killed in Yellowstone National Park. He recovered, returned to fieldwork, and devoted the next several decades to understanding and protecting these often-maligned giants. He has spent thousands of hours among wild grizzles in Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks, Alberta, coastal British Columbia, and along Brooks River in Alaska’s Katmai National Park, where hundreds of people gather to watch dozens of grizzlies feast on salmon. His research has centered on how bears respond to people and each other, with a focus on how to keep humans and bears safe.
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Photothermal Spectroscopy Methods, 2nd Edition Stephen E. Bialkowski Chemistry and Biochemistry This unique guide to the application and theory of photothermal spectroscopy has been newly revised and updated to include new methods and applications and expands on applications to chemical analysis and material science. The book covers the subject from the ground up, lists all practical considerations needed to obtain accurate results, and provides a working knowledge of the various methods in use.
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A Practical Guide for Rhetorical Readers, Thinkers, and Writers Barbara Pescar English This comprehensive textbook provides a set of rhetorical reading, thinking, and writing strategies for instructors and students to utilize as they engage with a prescribed curriculum of reading, writing, and study skills for college coursework.
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Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776-1830 Kerin Holt English This text explores the relationship between early American literature and federalism in the early decades of the republic. As a federal republic, the United States constituted an unusual model of national unity, defined by the representation of its variety rather than its similarities. Taking the federal structure of the nation as a foundational point, Keri Holt examines how popular print—including almanacs, magazines, satires, novels, and captivity narratives—encouraged citizens to recognize and accept the United States as a union of differences. The book offers a new approach for studying print nationalism that transforms existing arguments about the political and cultural function of print in the early United States, while also offering a provocative model for revising the concept of the nation itself. Holt also breaks new ground by incorporating an analysis of literature into studies of federalism and connects the literary politics of the early republic with antebellum literary politics—a bridge scholars often struggle to cross. 23 | Research Week 2020
Reel Latinxs: Representation in U.S. Film and TV Christopher González English Latinx representation in the popular imagination has infuriated and befuddled the Latinx community for decades. These misrepresentations and stereotypes soon became as American as apple pie. But these cardboard cutouts and examples of lazy storytelling could never embody the rich traditions and histories of Latinx peoples. Not seeing real Latinxs on TV and film reels as kids inspired the authors to dive deep into the world of mainstream television and film to uncover examples of representation, good and bad. The result: a riveting ride through televisual and celluloid reels that make up mainstream culture.
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Rewilding Johan T. du Toit Wildland Resources Through a global and interdisciplinary lens, this book discusses, analyzes, and summarizes the novel conservation approach of rewilding. The volume introduces key rewilding definitions and initiatives, highlighting their similarities and differences. It reviews matches and mismatches between the current state of ecological knowledge and the stated aims of rewilding projects, and discusses the role of human action in rewilding initiatives. Collating current scholarship, the book also considers the merits and dangers of rewilding approaches, as well as the economic and socio-political realities of using rewilding as a conservation tool. Its interdisciplinary nature will appeal to a broad range of readers, from primary ecologists and conservation biologists to land managers, policy makers, and conservation practitioners in NGOs and government departments.
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Sociological Studies of Environmental Conflict Mehmet Soyer Sociology The environmental studies about natural resource issues are often studied as conflicts; this book is carefully designed to expound on how resolutions are negotiated and maintained. A number of factors influence how conflicts are framed and how resolutions are determined regarding fracking, shared waters, and environmental threats. This book explores the power, community activism, and politics regarding natural resources. Decisions often ignore ecological and social sustainability stewardship needs. By understanding how socio-political dynamics affect policy and negotiation, this book also contributes to the understanding of how natural resource policies are negotiated. It illuminates social inequalities between rural and urban populations.
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Speaking of Culture Nolan Weil Intensive English This book’s purpose is to define culture and many other concepts associated with it. The readings in this book aim to help readers better understand the breadth of the concept of culture and provide readers with a vocabulary for discussing it more articulately. Culture is one of those broad concepts that is used widely, although somewhat imprecisely, in everyday English. It also cuts across many academic disciplines, and this book draws on many of them. It touches, for instance, on anthropology, biology, history, mythology, political science, psychology, and sociology.
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Superlative: The Biology of Extremes Matthew LaPlante Journalism and Communication The world’s largest land mammal could help us end cancer. The fastest bird is showing us how to solve a century-old engineering mystery. The oldest tree is giving us insights into climate change. The loudest whale is offering clues about the impact of solar storms. For a long time, scientists ignored superlative life forms as outliers. Increasingly, though, researchers are coming to see great value in studying plants and animals that exist on the outermost edges of the bell curve. As it turns out, there’s a lot of value in paying close attention to the “oddballs” nature has to offer. Superlative is the story of extreme evolution, and what we can learn from it about ourselves, our planet, and the cosmos. It’s a tale of crazy-fast cheetahs and super-strong beetles, of microbacteria and enormous plants, of whip-smart dolphins and killer snakes.
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Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second or Foreign Language Ko-Yin Sung Chinese This text, edited by Ko-Yin Sung, addresses three emerging themes in the field of Chinese language teaching and learning. (1) Increasingly ubiquitous in all language learning and teaching, and for the learning of Chinese as a second language in particular, information and communication technology (ICT) can serve as an important and effective tool. (2) Due to China’s economic and political influence, the number of students of all ages studying Chinese as a second language—but especially young learners—has increased in many parts of the world. Despite this, the research into teaching Chinese to young learners has lagged behind. Several chapters investigate young learners’ motivations and effective methods for assisting them to master the Chinese language. (3) The writing system of the Chinese language poses many challenges for learners, especially those more familiar with alphabetical languages. In light of this difficulty in learning Chinese characters, some of the chapters identify effective teaching and learning strategies to master the Chinese language. 29 | Research Week 2020
Technical Communication After the Social Justice Turn: Building Coalitions for Action Rebecca Walton English This is the first scholarly monograph marking the social justice turn in technical and professional communication (TPC). Social justice often draws attention to structural oppression, but to enact social justice as technical communicators, first, we must be able to trace daily practice to the oppressive structures it professionalizes, codifies, and normalizes. This book moves readers from conceptual explorations of oppression and justice to a theoretical framework that allows for the concepts to be applied and implemented in a variety of practical contexts. It historicizes the recent social justice turn in TPC scholarship, models a social justice approach to building theories and heuristics, and presents scenarios that illustrate how to develop sustainable practices of activism and social justice. Its commitment to coalition building, inclusivity, and socially just practices of citation and activism will support scholars, teachers, and practitioners not only in understanding how the work of technical communication is often complicit in oppression but also in recognizing, revealing, rejecting, and replacing oppressive practices. USU Faculty Author Circular | 30
Water Resource Management Issues: Basic Principles and Applications R. Ryan Dupont Civil and Environmental Engineering This text examines the technical and scientific, as well as regulatory, ethical, and emerging issues of pollution prevention, sustainability, and optimization for the production and management of safe drinking water to cope with environmental pollution, population growth, increasing demand, terrorist threats, and climate change pressures. It presents a summary of conventional water and wastewater treatment technologies, in addition to the latest processes.
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We’ve Tried That Before: 500 Years of Extension Wisdom Paul Hill Economic Development While Extension has been engaged in organizing information (i.e., fact sheets, journal articles, curriculum, policies, procedures, bylaws, and man¬uals) for well over 100 years, how have we cared for the lessons learned that only experience can teach? The purpose of this book is to share wisdom from the trenches—the kind of timeless advice you can use in your everyday work and can take with you into the future. The following pages are a collection of experiences, stories, and hardwon wisdom from 30 Extension professional spanning 15 Land-Grant Universities with a collective 512 years of experience.
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Writing for Electronic Media Brian Champagne Journalism and Communication People’s viewing habits are changing as they migrate to mobile sources, social media, and kitten videos. Television News is still a dominant #1 source, and radio is still the safest way to stay informed in your car. This book does not teach the who, what, when, where, why, and how of reporting; its goal is to teach how to present the journalism you already know via electronic media—primarily television. Writing for Electronic Media is an Open Educational Resource.
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