Every entry receives a small prize. Teen Advisory Board members will help with the judging and select the Grand Prize Winner. The winning story will be published on the Library Teen Read Week blog. Rules:
1. Writers must be current Glen Crest 7th grade students.
2. Short stories can be no longer than 500 words.
3. Slang MUST BE SCHOOL APPROPRIATE! A list of slang terms may be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang_phrases
BEWARE they are not all school appropriate
4. Stories must be typed and double-spaced.
5. Put the title and page number of your story on the top of each page.
6. Type your name, your age, the title of your story and your phone number or e-mail address on a separate piece of paper and turn it in with your story. Do not put your name on your story so it will be judged equally with other entries.
7. Turn your stories in at the LMC.
8. Deadline is Friday, Oct 19. No exceptions.
FYI
1. Wikipedia should NEVER be used as a resource for school assignments. Please discuss with your class why:
- Not written by credentialed/authoritative authors
- Information is not reviewed for truth or accuracy before publishing
- ANYONE can edit any article
- Most High schools and Universities will fail the paper if Wikipedia is the source
Wikipedia is a great place to start if you know nothing about a topic but you should verify any information you want to use in credible, reliable reference sources.
2. Internet Slang and IM abbreviations are not appropriate in school writing:
- Internet slang is undesirable and intolerable in real world communications
- These bad spelling habits will stay with them. Eleventh- and 12th-grade teachers are forced to teach elementary grammar and spelling, because they are receiving English papers from their students where "you" is spelled "u," "are" is spelled "r" and the incorrect homonym of a word is used all too often.
- There is a time and place for brevity and coding, but if they are communicating with an audience who may not understand their abbreviations, it's better to write in the standard fashion.
- It could be confusing. The purpose of writing is to communicate, so it shouldn't be used if it gets in the way of getting a message across.
- There may sometimes be reasons to use the truncated language "authentically and purposefully" in a piece of writing, but that this should be a deliberate decision by the writer and should make sense to the audience.
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