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  • noun A kind of writing laboratory where students can experiment with, and attempt to reproduce, the styles and techniques being studied.

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text +‎ shop, modelled on workshop but de-emphasizing the idea of work, inspired by Roland Barthes' essay From Work to Text. Coined by Gregory Ulmer; see Textshop for Psychoanalysis.

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