About this Journal
The Best Text Collection is one way the Writing Program (WP) works to highlight and circulate texts created by University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) students for writing courses at all undergraduate levels. Texts are reviewed and prepared for publication by graduate writing instructors, further deepening the WP focus on mentoring teachers of writing on inclusive pedagogical practices by extending these practices to graduate level instruction.
Published annually, each issue presents projects created for any Writing, Identity, & Power (ENGLWRIT111), College Writing (ENGLWRIT112/112H), or Junior Year Writing courses written by current UMass Amherst undergraduate students.
Students interested in submitting their work should visit the WP's Best Text Contest page.
Volume 4 • 2023
111: Writing, Identity, and Power
First Place: Embracing the Literacy: A Celebration of Diversity
Fenghao Yu
2023-06-21 Volume 4 • 2023
Second Place: Lost In My Own Language: My Relationship With Chinese
Michael Ye
2023-06-21 Volume 4 • 2023
Third Place: Whispers of A Young Writer: Influence of My First Childhood Novel
Tanush Santosh Deshpande
2023-06-21 Volume 4 • 2023
Honorable Mention: Two Kinds of Special Languages in Film Studies
Sylvia Chen
2023-06-21 Volume 4 • 2023
112/112H: College Writing
First Place: Importance of Intersectionality in Discussions of Menstrual Injustice and Period Poverty in the United States
Olivia Soolman
2023-06-21 Volume 4 • 2023
Second Place: Black Women Maternal Mortality and Health Disparity Crisis
Tiffany Njugi
2023-06-21 Volume 4 • 2023
Third Place: Preserving the World’s Truths Letter to the United Nations’ Secretary General
Anna Lin
2023-06-21 Volume 4 • 2023
Honorable Mention: COVID-19 and Racism: A Dual Pandemic and the Mental Health of Asian American Youth
Nina Lei
2023-06-21 Volume 4 • 2023
Honorable Mention: Social Media Influences Restrictive Eating Disorders
Rebecca Steere
2023-06-21 Volume 4 • 2023
Honorable Mention: Trout Fishing in Massachusetts: How to Support Sustainable Fishing
DJ Chase
2023-06-21 Volume 4 • 2023
112/112H: Multimodal
Third Place: Gender Expression in Relation to Sexual Assault
Hallie Farmer
2023-06-21 Volume 4 • 2023
Junior Year Writing
Best Multimodal: Final Consonant Cluster Reduction in African American English
Sophia He
2023-06-21 Volume 4 • 2023
Best Long: “Call the Midwife”: An Argument Against the Medicalization of Pregnancy and Childbirth
Savni Sarolkar
2023-06-21 Volume 4 • 2023