THE SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS HIGH SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST
Topic: “Why have been giveaway as well as eccentric headlines media important?”
The Society of Professional Journalists wants to enlarge tall propagandize students’ believe as well as bargain of a significance of a Free Media to a lives. National winners of this letter foe embrace grant awards.
Who is eligible?
All students enrolled in grades 9-12 in public, in isolation as well as home schools. Students contingency contention strange work as well as have a sponsoring clergyman pointer a foe entrance form.
Format
The letter should be 300-500 difference as well as contingency embody an entry form. Entries might be typed or handwritten though contingency be double-spaced.
Entering
Send all entries to a Participating Chapter in your state.
If your state has no participating chapter, send your letter entrance to:
High School Essay Contest
Society of Professional Journalists
3909 N. Meridian St. Indianapolis, IN 46208
National Awards
First Place: $1,000 scholarship
Second Place: $500 scholarship
Third Place: $300 scholarship
Entry Deadline:
All entries should be postmarked by March 5, 2010.
Click here to download an entrance form [PDF].
Complete Official Rules
Section we – General Rules
1. The Society of Professional Journalists Freedom of a Press High School Essay Contest is widely separated in to dual levels of competition: Chapter as well as National. All initial place winners comparison during a section turn have been forwarded to a inhabitant competition.
2. Contestants contingency come in by SPJ National Headquarters or a internal participating SPJ chapter. If there is no internal foe in your state, greatfully send your entrance to a residence for “All Other Entries.”
3. Any entries perceived during SPJ National Headquarters will be forwarded upon to a suitable chapter.
4. Contestants contingency harmonise an strange letter with singular superintendence from others.
5. The Society of Professional Journalists will have a right to edit, tell or differently transcribe any letter entered in to a foe though remuneration to a author.
6. There is no price to come in a contest.
Section II – Qualifications for Contestants
1. The foe is open to all students in grades 9-12 in public, in isolation as well as home schools.
2. Contestants might contention usually a single letter entrance during any since foe year.
3. No particular carrying formerly won a inhabitant SPJ Essay Scholarship will be authorised to competition during any turn of a foe again.
Section III – Contest Rules
1. Each competitor should review a duplicate of a manners as well as contingency finish a entrance form. The manners enclose report about a contest, judging as well as awards.
2. Participants contingency write upon a central topic.
3. Each entrance contingency embody a Contest Entry Title Page (entry form) or contention a cover page containing a same report found upon a Entry Form.
4. Essays might be typewritten or legibly handwritten though contingency be double-spaced.
5. Essays contingency enclose during slightest 300 difference though no some-more than 500 words. Every word of a letter is counted. This does not embody a title, bibliography or footnotes.
6. Any quotations or copyrighted element used in a letter contingency be identified properly. Failure to brand non-original element will outcome in disqualification.
7. Essays contingency be created in English.
8. The entrance contingency be stapled together in a top left-hand comer.
9. Any criticism in a control of a foe contingency be done immediately. The Local Essay Contest Chair as well as a inhabitant SPJ Awards Chair will confirm all protests in consent with a foe rules. The preference of a foe National Awards Chair is final, as well as no aloft appeals will be recognized.
Section IV – Judging as well as Timing
1. Judging will be finished by a row of competent judges.
2. In an bid to disguise a temperament of any contestant, any entrance will be reserved a series by a Essay Contest Chair. The reserved series will be placed upon a pretension page as well as initial page of a essay. The pretension page will afterwards be isolated as well as defended by a Essay Contest Chair. The judges will be since a letter temperament usually a reserved number.
3. Judges will not plead or review essays being judged until all essays have been judged.
4. Only judges can allot a chastisement or endowment points.
Section V – Scoring of Contest
Scoring procedures during all levels of a foe will be identical.
1. Material Organization (Logical understand of a subject, confluence to topic): 40 points
2. Vocabulary as well as Style (Phrasing as well as continuity): thirty points
3. Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling: twenty points
4. Neatness: 5 points
5. Adherence to foe manners (prepared in a correct format): 5 points
Section VI – Awards
National level:
First-place: $1,000 Scholarship as well as a plaque
Second-place: $500 Scholarship as well as a plaque
Third-place: $300 Scholarship as well as a plaque
Scholarships have been saved by a Sigma Delta Chi Foundation.
Questions?
For serve report hit SPJ during 317/927-8000 or e-mail us.
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