Essay Topic(s): National issues
Essay Level: Undergrauate
Provider: Naija Writers’ Coach
Country to Write in: Nigeria
Essay Description
Naija Writers’ Coach is an online writing forum with the mandate to provide free daily information on essay competitions and practically help YOUth attain proficiency in essay writing.
Entries are hereby invited from Nigerian undergraduate students for the first edition of Naija Writers’ Coach Annual Essay Competition. The contest is intended to serve as a national platform for Nigerian students to express their opinions on pressing national issues, and advance workable and sustainable solutions to them.
Eligibility
Absolutely any Nigerian undergraduate!
Selection criteria:
Each entry which makes it to the final will be judged based on:
- CONTENT: This encompasses quality and relevance of arguments, innovation and advancement of a personal opinion, originality and practicability of recommendations.
- ORGANIZATION: Logical and orderly presentation of points
- ENDEARING AND GRAMMATICAL EXPRESSIONS: This encompasses concord, diction, etc.
- MECHANICAL ACCURACY: This entails avoidance of punctuation and typographic errors.
Citizens of Nigeria
Participating Institutions
All recognized schools in Nigeria can participate in this essay
Fields of study
Essay Topic (Theme):
The theme is: “Does The Nigerian Education System Prepare Students For The Work Environment?”
Synopsis (What has informed this theme?):
It has been observed that there is increasing importance and preference attached to educational certificates in Nigeria over the acquisition of critical life skills, educational values and practical work-place know-how, and as such, many students graduate still unemployable. Students who are most affected by this trend are invited to share their views on the malady and all other issues related to it.
Essay benefits
The prizes:
- The sum of N15,000, N10,000 and N7,000 would be awarded to the first, second and third prize winners respectively.
- Also, all the 10 finalists shall be entitled to receive the Naija Writers’ Companion – a collection of 3 awesome softwares and 3 ebooks on writing – worth N4,000.
Guidelines:
- Each entry must be an essay. Poems, short stories, fictions, etc. are not acceptable.
- Each entry must be between 600 and 1,000 words.
- No co-authored work would be accepted.
- Submissions should be made through the form on the Naija Writers Coach official web site (link to it is below). Submissions by email would not be accepted.
- Each entrant must ensure that his/her essay is free from plagiarism.The deadline for submission of entries is 20th April, 2013 (by 11:59pm) when the submission form will be taken off.
Submit your entry on or before 20th April, 2013 (by 11:59pm)
PLEASE NOTE:
All received entries would be acknowledged by email within 24 hours of submission. If you do not receive an acknowledgement after 24 hours, please try to resend your entry.
All essays received and which are publishable would be posted on the Naija Writers’ Coach website (link to it is below) between 21st April and 25th April, 2013.
After the publication of the entries, voting would commence and last till 13th of May, 2013.
On the 14th May, 2013, the 10 most popular entries (finalists) based on the number of votes received would be forwarded to the panel of judges for grading.
On the 24th May, 2013, the 3 winners would be announced. Winners would also be notified by email.
Application Deadline: 11:59pm, 20 April, 2013
Open to International students: No (ONLY Nigerians)
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