You’re invited to participate in the Best Text Contest sponsored by the UMass Writing Program. Awards will be given for each of the following categories:

 

Basic Writing 111 and College Writing 112:

 

(i.e. multimedia/visual text)

 

Junior-Year Writing.  In order to recognize the range in diversity of writing across the disciplines, prizes will be awarded as follows:

 

 

 

Essay submissions must have been written for an assignment in Basic Writing 111 or a College Writing 112 course within the 2011-2012 academic year. A panel of judges will be looking for a well developed, well thought-out, and well constructed piece that reflects the goals of the specific class you are enrolled in.  As in any good writing, submissions must be copy-edited, error free, and demonstrate a good use of mechanics.  One submission per course. 

 

To submit: Please email a clean, revised copy of your essay to wpbesttext@acad.umass.edu along with a cover sheet that includes the following information:

 

 

For example of Cover Sheet see Writing Program website: http://www.umass.edu/writingprogram/studentwriting.html

 

For non-traditional submissions either email piece or link to piece with cover sheet to wpbesttext@acad.umass.edu. For pieces that cannot be easily put in electronic form please bring with cover sheet to the Writing Program main office, 305 Bartlett Hall. If you have any questions as to how to submit your piece, please contact Peggy Woods at pmwoods@acad.umass.edu.

 

Submit contest submissions to the Writing Program, 305 Bartlett Hall. 

Deadline for all submissions is Friday, March 30, 2012 by 4 p.m.  Winners will be notified the last week of April.  Awards will be given out during the Celebration of Writing Festival, which will be held Wednesday, May 2, 2012.