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small medium large <B><h2>CURRENT CONTEST OPS--FCTE WRITING & LEDGER EDITORIAL </h2></B> ======================================================================= --STUDENT WINNERS SELECTED FOR FCTE AWARDS FOR 2008: Kathryn P Olivia W ====================================================================== <B>30th Year: Student Editorial Contest</B> Published: Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 12:50 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 3:01 a.m. Every year when school opens, The Ledger invites students to write editorials, and teachers to enter their students' best examples in the newspaper's Student Editorial Writing Contest. This is the 30th year in which The Ledger has sponsored the contest. The contest moves a bit later into the fall this year at the request of the school system. This change will match the schedules and course work of English, language-arts and other teachers better. The purpose is the same, though - <U>for student writers to persuade readers that their opinions hold the best solutions for the problems posed.</U> While editorial writing results in opinion, the most convincing editorials are <U>based on strong foundations of fact and logic.</U> The students writing editorials for the contest not only hone their persuasive-writing skills, they expand their sources and approaches to research, and they apply the <U>principle of cause and effect in explaining their conclusions.</U> We conduct the contest in three divisions: Elementary, Middle School and High School. Elementary editorials must be between 100 words and 150 words. Middle and <B>high school editorials must between 300 words and 400 words</B>. We have made the rules available to the school system, which is distributing them among public and private schools; homeschooled students are eligible as well. The rules are also posted online at <B>www.theledger.com/studenteditorialrules</B> The students must choose one of three topics on which to write: --<B><U>Offshore oil drilling</U></B>: The House of Representatives and the Senate passed bills in September to end the ban on drilling for oil off the coast of the United States, except for Florida's gulf coast. Will the ability to drill in coastal U.S. waters reduce the nation's reliance on foreign oil supplies? Will it cut the cost of gasoline, diesel fuel and heating oil? Do the benefits of offshore oil drilling outweigh the environmental risks from which the 1981 offshore-drilling ban sought to protect? --<B><U>Change Florida's minimum driving age to 17:</U></B> A report produced by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in September recommended that states raise the age for obtaining a driver's license to 17 (or even 18). It cited studies of drivers in New Jersey, the only state with a minimum age of 17 for a driver's license. They show that among 16- and 17-year-olds a smaller percentage is killed in auto crashes in New Jersey vs. the nearby states of Connecticut and Delaware. Would a 17-year-old driver's license requirement in Florida save lives? Would it cause problems related to education, employment or family matters for 16-year-olds? Would benefits of an age requirement of 17 outweigh problems of not being able to drive at 16? --<B><U>Replace the electoral college with the popular vote:</U></B> U.S. voters do not elect the president and vice president directly. Rather, they vote for electors who are pledged to their candidates. The electors form the electoral college, and they cast the votes that determine president and vice president. Should the nation replace the electoral college with the popular vote, under which the candidates receiving the most votes from voters would win the presidency and vice presidency? Would a popular-vote system be more fair? Would some states be ignored by presidential campaigns if the electoral college were replaced by a national popular vote? The entries are due at The Ledger on Friday, Nov. 7. The editorials will be screened by the Communications Department of Florida Southern College. Ledger editors will choose the winners. The winning editorials will be published in The Ledger and on TheLedger.com over three days in December - one day for each school division. Videos of the first-place winners reading their winning entries will accompany their editorials on TheLedger.com. The top-three writers in each division will win plaques and cash awards: $250 for first place, $200 for second place and $150 for third place. Students, start your editorials. Rev up your research. Lock down your logic. Most importantly, write clearly and convincingly. [ Glenn Marston is editorial page editor. E-mail: glenn.marston@theledger.com. Phone: 863-802-7600. ] **FINAL COMPETITORS: SEE THE LEDGER WEB SITE TO PUT THE FINAL STUDENT/TEACHER INFORMATION ON YOUR PAPERS!! ====================================================================== <B>MARTIN LUTHER KING ESSAY CONTEST</B> See downloads--it's a PDF file.
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