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(If you need help in study skills, research, homework assistance, resumes, or college application essays check out the School Survival page.)
Writing Contests
Here are opportunities to earn recognition, scholarships or even cash with your writing. Some contests have restrictions on entrance dates and most have deadlines. I do not list contests that require entry fees. Note: some "contests" are deceptions to lure you into paying entrance fees or for books with your work. Here is a site that exposes many of them. If you suspect that any of the following are this kind of swindle, please contact me immediately.
- Voice of Democracy Contest
- National High School Poetry Contest
- Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award
- Holocaust Remembrance Essay
- Donna Reed Foundation
- American Foreign Service Association
- American Beekeeping Federation
- United Nations Association of USA go to Educator's Corner
- Ayn Rand Foundation
- Financial Service Centers of America
- Wonder of Plastics Essay Contest
- Travel is Education
- Institute for Humane Studies
- Organization of Chinese Americans
- Gates Millennium Scholars
- Datatel Scholars Foundation Scholarship
- Signet Classic Essay Contest
- SAMMY (Milk Mustache) Contest
- Davidson Fellows Award
- Southwest Association for Education in Biomedical Reserearch
- A. Patrick Charnon Scholarship
- Carpe Diem Foundation
- The DuPont Challange Science Essay
- Jane Austen Essay Contest
- Sons of the American Revolution Knight Essay Contest
- Profile in Courage Essay
- Vegetarian Resource Group Essay
- Letters About Literature
- River of Words
- Teen H.I.P. "Butt Out Now" Award
- Freedom from Religion Essay Contest
- Garden Club Essay Contest
- ASU's Martin Luther King Contests
- Inverness "Is All Ears" Contest
- Western Reading Services Poetry Contest
- World Connected Essay Contest
- American Spirit Publishing
- Barry Goldwater Scholarship
- Biographies of Contemporary Women in Mathematics
- Club Foundation
- Dale E. Fridell Memorial Scholarship
- Duck Tape's Rock Tapewright Contest
- Lemonade Stand
- Lincoln Forum
- National Peace Essay Contest
- Oustanding Students of America
- Pep Rally USA
- Shakespeare Fellowship Essay Contest
- Siemens Foundation
- Sports to School Scholarship
- Travel is Education
- United States Senate Youth Program
- Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition
- Young Stewards Scholarship
- Chapel of Four Chaplains Essay
- Humanist Essay
- Helping Hands Book Scholarship
- Education is Freedom Essay
- George Watt Memorial Essay
- California Young Playwrights Contest
- Help Desk Scholarship
- American Welding Society has several scholarships
- TDS Telecom Essay
- Citibank/Scholastic Essay Contest
- Campbell's Exploring the American Dream
- Snag a Job Essay
- Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University
- Center for Educational Solutions' Charnon Scholarship
- All Ink Scholarship
- Careerfitter Essay
- Art School Scholarships
- A World Connected
- ARC Salon Scholarship
- College Computers.net
- A Better Earth Contest
- Free Will Contest
- Half Price Computer Books Scholarship (it's not just for computer books!"
- Mystery Writers Contest
- Mama's Health Scholarship
- Paul Zindel First Novel Award (must be 18)
- President Scholarships has five different scholarships
- Elwood Grimes Literary Scholarship
- Steven Glenn Scott Memorial Scholarship
- ACLU First Amendment Essay is a local contest
- ACLU Stand Up for Freedom Contest is a national contest.
- Anthology of Poetry
- Communitarian Essay Contest
- Alvin J. Cox Memorial Essay Scholarship
- Blogging for Progressive Scholarship
- College Prowler Essay Scholarship
- GAIA Scholarship
- Textbookx Scholarship
- Avar Press Scholarship
- Best Buy Scholarship
- BrainstormUSA Dare to Dream Contest
- Careerfitter.com Scholarship
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General Writing Help
- Nuts and Bolts
- A complete, interesting and fun look at the fundamentals of thinking and writing. Since it's designed for college students, this site looks only at complete essay writing.
- Paradigm
- A great step-by-step guide to writing with special tips on exploratory, informal and arguementative essays.
- Writers' Resources
- Links grouped by specific skills like "Help with paragraphs" etc.
- Purdue OWL
- Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
- UNBC
- The University of Northern British Columbia has useful advice, especially about pre-writing, and proves that Canadian English is much the same as American (except for some spelling)!
- East Carolina University
- Easy-to-understand workshops on everything from writing introductions to revision, available as both PowerPoint presentations and Word documents.
- Sharp Points
- Writing tips from a newspaper copy editor
- Reducing Wordiness
- A handout of tips from several sources on how to eliminate all that blah, blah, blah!
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Specific Assignment Help
- Five Paragraph Essay
- Good advice and links on the most commonly assigned form of essay
- Technical Writing
- An online textbook on writing business reports, technical manuals and other "real world" documents
- Definition Essay
- Useful tips and samples of extended definitions
- Rhetorical Analysis
- Format and samples of the rhetorical analysis essay
- Abstracts
- Help writing short summaries of reseach articles
- Descriptive Essays
- Help when you have to write an essay of description including finding topics besides "My Room"
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Grammar and Vocabulary Help
- Guide to Grammar and Writing
- Quizzes and help with common sentence and paragraph errors plus overall writing tips
- English Grammar
- A very thorough review of grammar and punctuation with easy-to-understand explanations and examples
- Merriam-Webster
- Great free online dictionary plus vocabulary builders including a "word of the day" service
- Wordsmith
- Includes a dictionary, thesaurus, and anagram generator
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Documentation and Citation Help
- Hacker Handbook
- Excellent coverage of the four major styles, including sample papers from each
- APA Style
- Covers American Psychological Association style
- Columbia Guide
- Covers both MLA and APA citation of electronic resources
- Format and Typing
- This is my handout on MLA format and general word processing tips.
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