{"id":149,"date":"2019-03-26T18:02:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/?page_id=149"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:13:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T17:13:56","slug":"essay-contest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/montclair-book\/montclair-book-archives\/2014-montclair-book\/essay-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>MONTCLAIR BOOK ESSAY CONTEST 2015\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<em>Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>ESSAY PROMPT<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Examine a problem or issue in your local, social, or global community that appeared to be caused by a lack of resources, what the authors of this year&#8217;s Montclair Book have called &#8220;scarcity.&#8221; Is the root cause indeed scarcity or something else? Explain your analysis of the situation and your proposed solution, including the resources that could change the outcome. Your essay should also make specific references to passages in\u00a0<em>Scarcity<\/em>\u00a0that support your conclusions.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>ESSAY CONTEST REQUIREMENTS AND GUIDELINES:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Length:<\/strong>\u00a0Between 1,000-1,500 words<br \/>\n<strong>Format:<\/strong>\u00a0Double space and use a 12-point font<br \/>\n<strong>Submission:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em>Entries must include<\/em>\u00a0<em>a separate title page with your name, essay title and contact information: phone number, email address and mailing address.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Evaluation criteria:\u00a0<\/strong>Each essay will be judged based on the extent and effectiveness with which it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Engages audience<\/li>\n<li>Communicates an argument effectively<\/li>\n<li>Uses persuasive evidence<\/li>\n<li>Exemplifies excellence in writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eligible contestants:<\/strong>\u00a0Open to all undergraduates enrolled at Montclair State University during the Fall 2014 or Spring 2015 semester<br \/>\n<strong>Prizes:<\/strong><br \/>\nOne winner will receive $100<br \/>\nTwo runners up will receive $25 each<br \/>\n<strong>Submission Deadline: Friday, March 27, 2015<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>How to Submit<\/strong>: Send an electronic copy to <a href=\"mailto:cwe@montclair.edu\">cwe@montclair.edu<\/a> and in the subject line enter \u201cMontclair Book Essay Contest.\u201d\u00a0 In the email message, indicate the college or school in which you are enrolled, the degree for which you are a candidate, and when you expect to graduate.\u00a0 If you have not yet declared a major, please indicate that as well.\u00a0<em>Entries must include<\/em>\u00a0<em>a separate title page with your name, essay title and contact information: phone number, email address and mailing address.<\/em>\u00a0Entries without these requirements will not be accepted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTCLAIR BOOK ESSAY CONTEST 2015\u00a0 Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much ESSAY PROMPT Examine a problem or issue in your local, social, or global community that appeared to be caused by a lack of resources, what the authors of this year&#8217;s Montclair Book have called &#8220;scarcity.&#8221; Is the root cause indeed scarcity or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":671,"parent":141,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-149","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119261,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149\/revisions\/119261"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-writing-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}