ESSAY CONTEST www.dumagueteinfo.com is holding a monthly essay contest where you can win cash prizes for submitting an essay on the topic of the month and being selected as the best writer for that month.
FULL CONTEST RULES:
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Eligibility Requirements
Contest is open to anyone and everyone. Anyone can submit an essay by posting it in the essay contest forum of
www.dumagueteinfo.com at the following link:
http://www.dumagueteinfo.com/board/contest-submissions/
The only requirement is that if the winning author wants their prize money wired to them through ML Kwarta Padala or Western Union they have a valid ID. See next section for more information.
Employees of
www.dumagueteinfo.com are not eligible for this contest.
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Cash Awards
Contest winners can choose to have their cash award presented to them in full in person in Dumaguete City, or if outside city limits or unable to travel to Dumaguete they may opt to have the money transferred to them through ML Kwarta Padala or Western Union with the expense of said transfer being deducted from the prize money.
www.dumagueteinfo.com is not responsible for eligibility requirements of either ML Kwarta Padala or Western Union and it is the sole responsibility of the requesting winning author to have in their possession proper ID which will allow them to receive a money transfer from those organizations.
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Contest Regulations
All essays must comply with the following contest rules before submission:
- Each essay submission must be in it's own thread in the submission forum.
- No essay with copied work will be accepted. All essays must be original content.
- Dumaguete Info holds the right to disqualify any submission.
- Each essay must reflect the contestant's own research, writing and original thinking.
- Authors may submit as many essays as they wish in the contest.
- Essays may not have been published in any other media.
- Essays must be written in English.
- Essays may include pictures to improve your essay as long as they are original pictures.
- Essays may include graphics to improve your essay as long as they are original works.
- Essays and all media once entered become the sole property of
www.dumageteinfo.com which will hold all rights to submitted work. Essays and media may be used for promotional use or re-used in any medium at the sole discretion of
www.dumagueteinfo.com without permission and/or without further consent from the original author/creator.
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Judging
Judging of essays will be by a panel of judges who will score all entries based on the following criteria:
Comprehension (1-20 points)
How well does the essay reflect a thorough comprehension of the monthly topic?
Organization (1-20 points)
Does the essay follow a logical and easily understood progression? Does corroborating evidence support the essay's main points?
Conclusions (1-20 points)
Do the conclusions follow logically from the argument? How compelling are the conclusions?
Creativity (1-20 points)
Use of diverse resources such as interviews. Creative angle on the topic. Use of pictures and graphics.
Writing (1-20 points)
Correct grammar, spelling, punctuation. Concise language.
In the unlikely event of a tie based on score the essays that tied will be voted on by the same panel of judges each selecting the essay they deem should be the winner. There will always be an odd number of judges so a tie then will not be possible.
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NEW ADDITION - Minimum Submissions
If less than 10 essays has been submitted before the end of the contest, the contest is automatically extended another month.
The decision of the judges is final.