Scholastic Writing Competition - Controversial Topics

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Hello,</p>

<p>I’m submitting several works to the scholastic writing competition - a collection of poetry, a personal essay, and a persuasive essay. How does the scholastic judging panel feel about controversial topics? My persuasive essay is about Guantanamo and one of my poems is about the Iraq War. Do the judges for the competition care? Are they simply looking for original, skilled writing? Or does topic matter?</p>

<p>Also, my personal essay isn’t controversial or anything but it only exceeds the minimum word limit by about 50 words (word limit for personal essay is between 750 and 3000). If the essay is really really well written and unique but only about 800 words will it still be a strong submission?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>I can honestly say that I have absolutely no idea. Not even a guess. Sorry :/</p>

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<p>Well they say the have a blind based judging so they don’t discredit you for you choice of topic but who knows…</p>

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<p>Yes. If they wanted longer pieces they would’ve increased the minimum word limit.</p>

<p>Insofar as the controversial topics thing goes, they’ll probably try to keep personal preferences out of it, although if they disagree with what you’re saying they might have trouble keeping their opinion of your position from clouding their opinion of your writing.</p>