Title Contest(ed) writing : re-conceptualizing literacy competitions / edited by Mary R. Lamb.

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 226 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Note	Includes index.
Summary	This collection is about writing contests, a vibrant rhetorical practice traceable to rhetorical performances in ancient Greece. In their discussion of contests' cultural work, the scholars who have contributed to this collection uncover important questions about our practices. For example, educational contests as epideictic rhetoric do indeed celebrate writing, but does this celebration merely relieve educators of the responsibility of finding ways for all writers to succeed? Contests design ...
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Subject	Literature -- Competitions.
	Literature -- Competitions.
	Literature and society.
	Literature and society.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Lamb, Mary R.
Other Form:	Print version: Lamb, Mary. Contest(ed) Writing : Re-Conceptualizing Literacy Competitions. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2013 9781443840088
ISBN	9781443845472 (electronic book)
	1443845477 (electronic book)
	1443840084 (hardback)
	9781443840088 (hardback)