
Scholarship Essay Competition Writers Check List
Just a few suggestions for you to review before submitting your essay:
- Is your essay written in English?
- Does the essay answer this year’s essay contest question?
- Does your essay address all parts of the contest question?
- Have you given your essay a descriptive title?
- Is your essay not less than 500 and not more than 750 words long excluding works cited?
- Have you made sure that your name, school, or city does NOT appear anywhere in the essay?
- Have you scrupulously followed accepted standards regarding attribution of quotations, arguments, and ideas of others within the body of your paper and bibliography?
- Have you made sure that Wikipedia is not a source?
- Does your essay have standardized citations and bibliography?
- Are your online sources listed separately from other sources in your bibliography?