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Interview with Daniel Bendersky
Posted by Nicole O'Connell on 2026-03-27
Interview with Daniel Bendersky
Daniel Bendersky won 1st place in the 112/112H: Multimodal College Writing Best Text Contest for "Speakers that Bump Hearts" (multimodal) and 3rd place in the 112/112H: College Writing Best Text Contest for "Speakers that Bump Hearts" (alphabetic).
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Interview with Kate Zarski
Posted by Nicole O'Connell on 2026-03-24
Interview with Kate Zarski
Kate Zarski won 1st place in the 112/112H: College Writing Best Text Contest for "Accepting My Older Brother; The Roller Coaster Journey."
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Interview with Kate Zarski audio.
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DA: Hi.
KZ: Hi.
DA: Can you share your name with us?
KZ: My …
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Interview with Anupama Sriram
Posted by Nicole O'Connell on 2026-03-19
Interview with Anupama Sriram
Anupama Sriram won 2nd place in the 112/112H: College Writing Best Text Contest for "Shiva Has Arms Enough to Hold Us All."
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Interview with Anupama Sriram audio.
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DA: Right. Hi, welcome to an interview with one of our winners for the …
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Best Text 2024 Winners
Posted by Nicole O'Connell on 2026-03-12
Best Text 2024 Winners
The UMass Writing Program is pleased to announce the winners of the Best Text Contest for 2024. The winning texts can be accessed in the UMass Best Text Collection.
The Marcia Curtis Best Text Contest for Writing, Identity, and Power (Englwrit 111) honors Marcia Curtis’ …
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Best Text 2023 Winners
Posted by Nicole O'Connell on 2024-06-25
Best Text 2023 Winners
The UMass Writing Program is pleased to announce the winners of the Best Text Contest for 2023.
The Marcia Curtis Best Text Contest for Writing, Identity, and Power (Englwrit 111) honors Marcia Curtis’ contributions to the Writing Program and its Englwrit 111 course. Curtis served as …
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Best Text 2022 Winners
Posted by Nicole O'Connell on 2024-06-25
Best Text 2022 Winners
The UMass Writing Program is pleased to announce the winners of the Best Text Contest for 2022.
The Marcia Curtis Best Text Contest for Writing, Identity, and Power (Englwrit 111) honors Marcia Curtis’ contributions to the Writing Program and its Englwrit 111 course. Curtis served as …
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Best Text 2021 Winners
Posted by Nicole O'Connell on 2024-06-25
Best Text 2021 Winners
The UMass Writing Program is pleased to announce the winners of the Charles Moran Best Text Contest for 2021.
The Best Text awards honor Charles Moran, the founding director of the Writing Program, who served in that capacity from 1982 to 1990. He created the program …
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Best Text 2020 Winners
Posted by Nicole O'Connell on 2024-06-25
Best Text 2021 Winners
The UMass Writing Program is pleased to announce the winners of the Charles Moran Best Text Contest for 2020.
Writing, Power, & Identity – Englwrit 111
First Place: Lydia Yoon, "Art in Martial Arts: The Truth of the Subculture of Taekwondo"
Second Place: Kaijia Liu, "Overfilled …
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