Topical Guide 828
Mark Dorset
Contests and Competitions: Techniques for Winning
At Home with the Glynns, Chapter 19:
“I enter these contests,” she said. She indicated a pile of pages torn from magazines. “They all ask you to do the same thing. They want you to tell them, ‘in your own words,’ or ‘in twenty-five words or less,’ why you like the thing they make, whatever it is. Let’s see—suitcases, orange juice, padlocks, pineapple slices, car wax, shoe polish, toilet cleaner—they go on and on. There are more of them every week. I can hardly keep up with them.”
See also:
Contests; Competitions TG 158; Contests and Competitions: Techniques for Winning TG 159
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