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Submission Guidelines for Writing Award

The Mr. and Mrs. Clarence A. and Flora J. Ware, Jr. Memorial Award in Writing honors the best essays written during the Fall and Spring of the current academic year. For submission deadlines, email tigerowl@tsu.edu.

NOTE: Part I and Part II of the submission process must be submitted for consideration by the deadline. Email tigerowl@tsu.edu for more details.

 

  1. The essay must have been written for one of the following TSU English courses: English 130, English 131, and English 132.
  2. The essay must be in response to an assignment given by the instructor of the course in the Fall/Spring semester of the current academic year. Please attach the essay prompt with the paper. Verification will be done.
  3. Students may submit only one essay per course for consideration for the award.
  4. The essay must be typed in MLA formatting guidelines (i.e. proper heading, one-inch margins, 12 font, times new roman, double-spaced).
  5. Essays not meeting one or more of the submission guidelines or submitted past the appropriate deadline will not be considered for the award.
  6. Essay must be original and will undergo a SafeAssignment and/or Turnitin.com check for authenticity of originality. Plagiarism is an automatic disqualification.
 
 

Award Information

Judges will evaluate all submitted essays and announce winners in the Fall and Spring. Winners will be notified via email and invited to the award ceremony.

Prizes:

  • 1st Place: $75.00
  • 2nd Place: $50.00
  • 3rd Place: $25.00
Disclaimer

Sponsor and its agents are not responsible for technical, hardware, or software malfunctions of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, lost, late, incomplete, garbled or delayed electronic communications and/or Entries or parts thereof, whether caused by the sender or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in this contest which may limit the ability to participate or by any human error which may occur in the processing of the submissions or votes in this contest.

Sponsor reserves the right to cancel the contest, in whole or part, if it (or the voting) becomes technically corrupted, or in the event of error, and it may in its sole discretion determine the winner.