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Josephine bonsolwww.jobonsol.blogspot.comMember, www.blognapinoy.com

Study the rulesContest Mechanics

0Articles must be at Articles must be at least 300 words, in least 300 words, in English or Filipino.English or Filipino.

0Articles must be at Articles must be at least 300 words, in least 300 words, in English or Filipino.English or Filipino.

Contest Mechanics

Articles must contain links to online sources as a method of reference.

0Reference:

0Stories must have at least three independent sources

•Finished articles must incorporate multimedia content and must contain at least one photo. Sources for media (URLs) must be placed at the bottom of the article.

•Articles must be observant of the rules of copyright (no plagiarism, sources must be credited).

•Contestants will compose their articles on Microsoft Word, OpenOffice or other word processing programs. Finished articles will be rendered to PDF and will be uploaded to http://www.thepoc.net (PDFs will also be available online for judging purposes).

•Contestants will be given one hour to research and write their articles. A maximum of 30 minutes will be given for contestants to lay-out their articles and incorporate media.

•Articles in Word format will be submitted to contest administrators/proctors, who will render documents as PDF and will upload them to the website. Judging will be done based on PDFs & uploaded articles.

0The Philippine Online Chronicles reserves the right to publish any or all of the written articles under Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA-3.0-Philippines

Criteria for judging

0Writing – 60%0Voice (The article's slant and how

the angle is presented) – 25%0Style/Composition (How the article

is constructed, flow of ideas) – 25%0Grammar/Spelling – 10%

0Web Savvy (Hyperlinks, use of multimedia, diversity/reliability of sources chosen) – 30%

0Layout of the article on the page/screen – 5%0Overall impact – 5%

Tips in online writing ganked from juned sunido, president

of philippine blog awards

01. CONTENT IS KING, BUT LINKING IS QUEEN

0READ READ READ0READ ONLINE ARTICLES..0RSS

0WRITE POSTS EVERYDAY FOR PRACTICE

0EDIT, EDIT, AND EDIT

0Thank you very much