Enter the Contest
Essay Contest Guidebook, Registration Forms and Checklist

Essay Contest Guidebook Download the National Peace Essay Contest Guidebook and Registration Forms The guidebook includes all registration forms and instructions. OR Download the Registration Forms ONLY These are the registration forms from the Guidebook above, pages 9–11 The Essay Contest materials are in PDF format. To view or print them you need at least Adobe Acrobat 6. The software can be downloaded for free from Adobe's web site.

This year students can fill in the registration forms with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Save the blank guidebook PDF to the right on your computer and fill out the fields by clicking above the lines that require your information. After you have filled in all fields, print, and sign the application.

PLEASE NOTE: Forms can be filled in and printed immediately using the free Acrobat Reader. To save completed forms you will need a full version of Adobe Acrobat.

When all of the items below have been attended to, give your completed student registration form and four stapled copies of your essay to your contest coordinator in time for review at the school or organization level or for submission to the national competition.

If you have questions, call the National Peace Essay Contest at (202) 429-3854, fax (202) 429-6063, or e-mail us.

• Have you made sure that your name, school, or city do not appear anywhere on the essay manuscript?



• Is your essay no more than 1,500 words long?



• Have you filled in the word-count section on the application form?



• Is your essay written in English?



• Does your essay address all parts of the contest topic?



• Have you given your essay a title?



• Have you scrupulously followed accepted standards regarding attribution of quotations, arguments, and ideas of others?



• Does your essay have standardized citations and a bibliography?



• Are your Internet sources listed separately from your other sources?



• Is your essay typed, double-spaced, with left and right margins set at 1 1/4 inches, on one side of white 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper? (Please do not put essays in binders.)



• Have you numbered the pages of your essay?



• Have you completed the student registration form on page 9 in the Guidebook? (Read the pledge carefully. In signing it, you certify that the essay is your own work.) [Download the Guidebook and Registration forms]



• Has your contest coordinator signed your student registration form?



• Has your contest coordinator completed the coordinator participation form? (Coordinators, see page 11 in the Guidebook.) [Download the Guidebook and Registration forms]



• Have you made four legible, collated copies of your essay, including the bibliography?



• Have you stapled each copy of your essay?



• Have you attached your student registration form to the top copy of your four essays?



• Have you made a copy of your essay and the student registration form to keep for your own records?