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

Contributor(s):

Lamb, Mary R

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443845472
1443845477

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contest(ed) Writing : Re-Conceptualizing Literacy Competitions.DDC classification:

807.9 23

LOC classification:

PN171.P75 C66 2013eb

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Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; PART III; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CONTRIBUTORS; 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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Includes index.

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 ...

English.

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