.jpg)
2008
Conservation Essay Contest
Rules
1. The student must be in the 8th or 9th grade to be eligible.
2. The Essay must be the original work of the student. Teacher counseling is permitted. No more than 20% may be direct copy from other sources and directly quoted material must be credited to the author. Paraphrasing is permitted.
3. Resource conservation material may be obtained from the Soil and Water Conservation District in your parish, or any other sources with material pertaining to this year’s theme.
4. The essay must be typed and double-spaced.
5. The essay will consist of a minimum of 300 words and a maximum of 500 words. A single character word or a hyphened word constitutes one word.
6. The number of words contained in the essay must be written in the upper right-hand corner of page 1 in the essay (NOT THE TITLE PAGE).
7. Each essay will be on the basis of 50% for content, 35%for composition, and 15% for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and neatness.
8. Then information should be factually correct and should depict the theme.
9. The title page of the essay must include the following:
· The student’s name and home address.
· Grade the student is in.
· The name and address of the school.
· The teacher’s name.
· The name of the sponsoring Soil and Water Conservation District
· The theme title.
· The date.
10. Entries must be received by The Dugdemona Soil and Water
2. The Essay must be the original work of the student. Teacher counseling is permitted. No more than 20% may be direct copy from other sources and directly quoted material must be credited to the author. Paraphrasing is permitted.
3. Resource conservation material may be obtained from the Soil and Water Conservation District in your parish, or any other sources with material pertaining to this year’s theme.
4. The essay must be typed and double-spaced.
5. The essay will consist of a minimum of 300 words and a maximum of 500 words. A single character word or a hyphened word constitutes one word.
6. The number of words contained in the essay must be written in the upper right-hand corner of page 1 in the essay (NOT THE TITLE PAGE).
7. Each essay will be on the basis of 50% for content, 35%for composition, and 15% for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and neatness.
8. Then information should be factually correct and should depict the theme.
9. The title page of the essay must include the following:
· The student’s name and home address.
· Grade the student is in.
· The name and address of the school.
· The teacher’s name.
· The name of the sponsoring Soil and Water Conservation District
· The theme title.
· The date.
10. Entries must be received by The Dugdemona Soil and Water
Conservation District office
by Friday, December 12, 2008.
No comments:
Post a Comment