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Best Text 2023 Winners
Posted by Nicole O'Connell on 2024-06-25
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 a teacher and administrator in the Writing Program for more than two decades, leading the Program as Director from [...]
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Best Text 2022 Winners
Posted by Nicole O'Connell on 2024-06-25
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 a teacher and administrator in the Writing Program for more than two decades, leading the Program as Director from [...]
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Best Text 2021 Winners
Posted by Nicole O'Connell on 2024-06-25
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 around many of the principles that guide it still today. He was particularly dedicated to student writing being the primary text of [...]
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Best Text 2020 Winners
Posted by Nicole O'Connell on 2024-06-25
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 Water" Third Place: Ashur Myles Turner, "My Connection with Anzaldúa" Honorable Mention: Sacchit Kumar Mittal, [...]
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