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| About YW | Contest Guidelines | Contest Winners | Anthologies | About the Young Writers Contest
The Young Writers Contest: Since its beginning in 1984, the Young Writers
Contest has been held under the auspices of the West Virginia Writing
Project. It is managed by CWVWP at MU South Charleston campus with the help of the
WV State Department
of Education. WV Young Writers Contest, which is funded by the West Virginia
Department of Education and supported by
Governor Tomblin issues proclamation making May 12, 2012 Young Writers Day! view signed proclamation (*.pdf)
Teachers and administrators in each county will emphasize writing and encourage students to submit writing for judging at the school and county levels. Writings submitted for judging may be on any topic and must be composed during the current school year, during school hours and supervised by teachers. It is common for students to write a narrative (story). | Access Young Writers Contest Plagiarism Policy (pdf)
Teachers affiliated with West Virginia’s National Writing Project Sites will judge entries analytically and holistically. Counties will receive announcements of results by mid-April. Entries will be judged on Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions (rubric)
Essays submitted in the state competition must not exceed word length below:
Entries must be word-processed and
double-spaced on 8˝” X 11” paper. Each entry must be titled. The student’s
name and other identifying information may not appear on the entry. A
Cover Sheet and Permission
Release and Website Form
must be stapled to each entry.
. YWC County Coordinators must
submit winning entries in the following order: 1)
Cover Sheet, 2) Permission Release and Website Form, 3)
Entry.
Each county’s
winning entries are due by March 19 in hard copy and
by entry into the Young Writers
Blackboard Learning System, Marshall University.
Faxed and e-mailed entries will not be accepted.
Entries that fail to follow the guidelines or have not been judged at
the county level and submitted by the YWC County Coordinator will be
eliminated. Students
in private schools within the county district may participate.
County YWC coordinators are encouraged to share this information with
personnel at private schools. Entries submitted from private schools
must be judged at the county level.
Mail judged county entries to: Paul Epstein, Director The deadline for submitting county entries to Paul Epstein at
CWVWP both online
and by mail is March 19,
2012. See below for forms and rules for Young Writers or access the WV Department of Education site at http://wvde.state.wv.us/teach21/YoungWriters.html
E-mail Paul Epstein @ pepstein@suddenlink.net for additional information.
Additional Information · Letter to County Coordinators and RELA Contacts (*.pdf file) · Young Writers Guidelines (*.pdf file) · Permission Release and Website Form (*.pdf file) · Teaching the Writing Process with the West Virginia Writing Project Young Writers Contest (*.pdf file) · Directions to Upload Six County Winning Entries onto Blackboard (*.pdf file) · WV Writing Project Young Writers Day: Attendance at the University of Charleston (*.doc file) · WV Young Writers Day Schedule (*.pdf file) · 2012 Young Writers Contest Winners and Walters Memorial Scholarship Nominees (*.pdf file) · Directions to the University of Charleston and Area Hotel Information
| Young Writers Anthologies (*.pdf files)
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Last updated March 13, 2012 |
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