2001-2002
ESSAY CONTEST-A
Subject:
Government As Regulator
First
Prize = $100
Second
Prize = $ 75
Third
Prize = $
50
Anyone
may enter. There are three categories:
(1)
Schools that submit a minimum of ten essays from one class.
Three prizes will
be awarded to every school that submits a minimum of ten qualifying entries.
(2)
Schools with fewer than ten students submitting essays.
They will have
their essays merged with other schools in the same situation.
(3)
Individuals of any age.
They will find their work displayed as Unaffiliated
and their essays will be judged with others in this category. Never will
an essay be judged against more than 30 essays in any category.
Participants should review the Issues To Be Addressed before beginning their essays.
All
participants will receive certificates and their essays will be published
online.
The
prizes will be awarded at the discretion of the Singer Foundation.
Peer-participants, according to rules detailed below, will do the judging.
Papers
may be emailed to contest@singerfoundation.org anytime before March 25, 2002.
Rules
1-
Email
submittals only
All essays must be submitted via
email. Do not send print copies.
We suggest that the most computer-literate student in the class assume the responsibility for seeing that all essays reach the Foundation via email. Floppies can be brought from home and sent via a school computer and modem or submitted from a home with the teacher's permission.
Please
do not submit essays until all are ready. The body of the email should
list the name of the school, school fax and phone numbers, teacher’s name and
email address and the name of every student-participant exactly
as he/she would like it to appear on a certificate. We will accept essays
as attached MS Word documents, plain text or Rich Text Format (rtf) or as text
copied into the body of an email. We are not responsible for documents that are
lost or distorted during transmission or that reach us in a format that we
cannot open.
2-
Grammar and
Spelling Check
All essays must be checked for grammatical and
spelling errors and be no less than 750 words nor more than 1,000 words in
length.
3-
Quotations
All quotations used in essays must be noted and cited at the end
of the work. The only notation in the body of the paper should be quotation
marks. No quote should exceed four sentences.
4- Format
Use Olga’s
essay as an example of the desired format for individual essays.
line
1= name of school
line
2 = town and state
line
3 = title of essay
line 4 = student's name
line
5 = grade
Note
the spacing and font.
5-
Photos
If you want student photos displayed, send email attachments clearly labeled
with the student’s name.
Example of student photo
6-
Required
Reading
Print the Required Reading and Questions.
Teachers should make copies for each participating student. Students should use
the required reading for background and to answer the questions. Use the
Internet as a research tool.
Papers must be accompanied by
answers to the questions. Make certain students state each question before
giving their answer.
Use
Olga’s
essay as an example:
If
you have trouble accessing any of this information, try again at a different
time. Server access depends on traffic and other conditions. Let us know if you
have tried unsuccessfully more than three times at different times of the day
(or night) and we will help.
7-
Judging
As an additional learning experience, teachers must agree to have their
students’ essays judged by students from another school and to have their own
students judge another school’s essays. Click
here to print the Guidelines For Judging. The
Foundation will assign a school to be judged after receiving your essays.
Please
be sure to keep copies at your end until you receive your awards.
Essays
will be posted on the Foundation web site as they are read. Entries, upon
submittal, become the property of The Harry Singer Foundation.
If you have questions or problems: email staff@singerfoundation.org. or phone (831) 625-4223 fax (831) 624-7994
Address surface mail correspondence to:
Essay Contest, The Harry Singer
Foundation,
P.O. Box 223159, Carmel, CA 93922