Monthly Essay Competition
So, you think you can write, or you believe you are a good writer, but nobody knows you. On the other hand, you simply want to expose yourself through your writing skills.
Well, here’s your chance.
At Jacetcards.com, we have decided to post random essay topics that are related to telecommunications, business, internet sales marketing and web design every month.
All you have to do is visit our website and navigate to this page to get the latest topic.
Topic for the Month of March 2011: A History Of Telecommunications
You may then write an essay of about 1000 to 1500 words on the topic above and submit to us through the following e-mail address. essayscripts@jacetcards.com.
Once we receive your essays via e-mail, we will send you a notification reply. We will also inform you of when the eventual winners' essay will be published.
You stand a chance of winning ₦1,500.00 ($10 Dollars) if your essay is awarded the highest score.
Before you begin writing, we advise you to read these rules carefully.
ESSAY RULES
1. You are all invited to participate.
2. Essays must be submitted within a week of the topic posted. Essays submitted later than a week will not be accepted.
3. Attach the essay as a Microsoft word document or any other windows compatible word editor, and send to essay scripts@jacetcards.com.
4. The essay must answer the question set.
5. The essay must make precise reference to the relevant text/ body of evidence.
6. The essay deploys an original and coherent argument with a clearly defined premise, in which all constituent parts flow logically from one another, and a sound conclusion is drawn;
7. The argument must be elegantly structured and convincingly expressed in an appropriate register.
8. Originality of thought is rewarded by a higher mark, while any form of plagiarism will bring down the mark and, in severe cases, may disqualify the essay. (See Plagiarism.)
9. You must indicate your full name, Profession, e-mail address, location, nationality and sex. Example Name: Olajide Tobun, Profession: System Administrator, E-mail Address: blabla@whatever.com, Location: Ogun state, Nationality: Nigerian, Sex: Male.
10. We may ask you to send us a photo of yourself for publishing on our website if you win and desire to do so. This however, is not compulsory.
11. The best essay will be published on our website together with the details of the winner. The cash prize will be forwarded to a bank account of the winner’s choice. Participants from outside Nigeria will be sent their prize through money transfer, or whichever means they desire and is convenient for us.
In simple terms, plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of someone else's work The source may be the work of another student, or published books and articles, and it can take various forms: copying, the word-for-word appropriation of entire passages; paraphrase, the summarizing, in other words, of a passage of someone else's work; or the adoption of another's detailed line of argument It is sometimes alleged that the plagiarism was done innocently, without malicious intent, but this will not be admitted as an excuse.
Essays will be thoroughly marked and awarded scores based on rules 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 above, by professionals and experts in this field.
If, for any reason you believe that you abided by our rules, wrote brilliantly and still yet, your essay was not able to win the prize. We implore you to contact us.