The Health Essay Contest sponsored by Beta Theta Omicron is open to all Skyline students.

Win $500 (1st place), $250 (2nd place), $100 (3rd place) for your essay on any aspect of the Honors Study Topic.

The Honors Study Topic includes: Health Care, Genetics, Emerging Diseases, Medical ethics, Environmental Health, Mental Health, and Cancer. Read more about it.

Rules

1500-word original, unpublished essay.

Double-spaced, one-side of page 8.5 x 11 inch paper. 12 point, Times or Time New Roman.

Number pages and include a running head with the title of your essay on the top right of each page.

Do not put your name in the essay.

Include a title page with:

This is my original work. I grant permission to Beta Theta Omicron to use this essay in electronic or print publications.

•Your essay can be a prose, nonfiction composition that deals with a single topic. It may be instructive, informational, persuasive; exploring people, places, historical events and personalities, new ideas, how-to, or personal experience. This genre usually appears in magazines, newspapers, and journals and often involves research.

•Your essay can be entertaining, reflective, inspiring, philosophic, witty, poetic, or all of these at once and expresses a personal attitude.

•Your essay can describe an inspirational personal experience. Such pieces are faith-promoting, nonfiction narratives that demonstrate personal insight, reveal heroic conduct, or show personal stamina; the central character often experiences an epiphany that results in life-altering action.

•Your essay can relate an anecdote. Anecdotes are short narratives detailing particulars of an interesting true episode. It is often biographical and dramatizes a situation of human interest. Slice of life, reflections, and fillers are also appropriate entries in this category.

Essays will be judged on creativity, mechanics, and relevance to the topic.

Turn in your essay at 7217 or 7303 by Dec. 2, 2002

Winners will be announced in January 2003.