| Win
cash prizes for your essay on the Honors Study Topic.
First place: $300, Second place: $200, Third place: $100.
The Honors Essay
Contest sponsored by Beta Theta Omicron is open to all Skyline
students enrolled during the Fall 2008 semester.
The Honors Study
Topic for 2008-2010, The Paradox of Affluence: Choices,
Challenges, and Consequences, is the most important aspect
of the comprehensive Phi Theta Kappa program for student development.
Though the leadership, service, and fellowship dimensions are very
important, the development of forums for intellectual stimulation
is stressed above all others.
Therefore, we
offer this essay challenge.
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The
contest
Write an essay describing a current or historical event relating it
to the honors study topic: "The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges, and Consequences." Topics might include health, the environment, economic policy, or technology and resources.
Cite references from journal or newspaper
articles as appropriate. |
| Type
of essay
•Your
essay can be a prose, nonfiction composition that deals with a single
topic. It may be instructive, informational, persuasive; exploring
people, places, historical events and personalities, new ideas,
how-to, or personal experience. This genre usually appears in magazines,
newspapers, and journals and often involves research.
•Your
essay can be entertaining, reflective, inspiring, philosophic, witty,
poetic, or all of these at once and expresses a personal attitude.
•Your
essay can describe an inspirational personal experience. Such pieces
are faith-promoting, nonfiction narratives that demonstrate personal
insight, reveal heroic conduct, or show personal stamina; the central
character often experiences an epiphany that results in life-altering
action.
•Your
essay can relate an anecdote. Anecdotes are short narratives detailing
particulars of an interesting true episode. It is often biographical
and dramatizes a situation of human interest. Slice of life, reflections,
and fillers are also appropriate entries in this category.
Essays
will be judged on creativity, mechanics, and relevance to the topic. |
