10,000 posts Contest - Lets start a Journal!

OK - Let's start the official Coin Talk Journal! Put your writing and editing skills to the test and see if you have what it takes to be a published author.

Contest Contest Contest:

Object of the game: To Win!

Object of the game number 2: To Learn!

Object of the game number 3: To Educate!

Object of the game number 4: to have FUN!

Background: All fields worth of study have Journals where research and commentary is shared among the college of learned experts. We're all experts, or on our way to being such, so contribute your knowledge to the human race by publishing your article in our NEW Journal

The Task: Choose a coin or paper money type, such as Eisenhower Dollars, or China Pandas, and write an original research article on the history, artistry, and significance of that coin type. Include annotation, images as necessary, and, of course, your write up. Write for your target audience, Coin Talk readers and Coin Collectors world wide.

The top 10 Articles will be selected by our crack committee, which I haven't chosen yet, and the top article will be featured on the cover of the Journal, and receive the Grand Prize - 5 beautifully printed framed photo's from the award winning coin photographer... ME, and win a FREE copy of the Journal, AND, as if that wasn't enough, one of my two Proof multicolored Perth Mint Octopuses, or another coin in substitution of similar value if you really hate colored coins.

Requirements:
Each Article is to be submitted in its own new thread!!!! with an original title that must start with the words: "COINTALK JOURNAL SUBMISSION:"

Each Article should be at least 1,000 words... - I have a tool to count the words (that should be about 4 pages?? in US Letter print?)

Each Article's copyright is default shared by Cointalk, You and I. I aint getting into any copyright wars.

No multimedia...that is for another contest (20,000 posts ?? )

All the articles MUST be on topic: Coins, Tokens and Paper Money

ALL ARTICLES MUST BE IN TEXT or HTML FORMAT. Don't post a darn pdf or image.

Judging Articles:

Articles will be judged as follows:

A) Scholarship - 10 points
B) Presentation - 10 points
C) Original Research - 10 point (this can be tough to score points in)
D) Annotation and Documentation - 10 points...

Write everything with Free Software (OpenOffice, the GIMP et al) get a free 5 points.


The resulting Journal will either be published on my printer or on LULU.com, depending on the demand. ( http://www.lulu.com/publish/books/?cid=publish_portal)

Everything will be put together and edited into a single magazine.

Hard Copies will be made available to for $20.00 each to the rest of the public and cointalk community with any profits going to the Cointalk Kitty to help keep this wonderful venue running.

Ebook versions will be available at some yet to be determined price -- again, profits going to cointalk.

OK - that is it! Let's get to work.

Ruben

 

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how long should I run this for? Suggestions?

 

Do I correctly assume that the misspelling is mandatory?

 

I would say at least 2 weeks but 1 month would prolly be best

 

lol

 

I fell sorry for the person that has to read my submission

 

How is it spelled? Submit ==> Submittion? Hey, I have a professional editor just because of that.

 

Better? Is an admin can fix the spelling error in the title, I'd appreciate it.

 

I think the last one was two months, and I might have extended it a week. The point is that we have to close it out at some point, but I want everyone who wishes to, to have the time to hand in something nice.

Ruben

 

Wow,.... looks more complicated than my Strategic Management Report I had to do in my final class for my Bachelors degree. Good Luck to all.

 

ROFL .. really shouldn't be that hard. Most of us have posted about 3/4s of the way the requirements at some point or another in regular threads. Mostly it just is going to take a little bit more organization and thought to go the extra 25%.


Ruben

 

Hmmm...hat's off to you. Great contest idea, and an a for first class behavior, donating any potential profit to cointalk. This one might take a while, though...not sure that even a month is long enough if you are wanting high class articles, maybe 6 weeks or so to allow time for proper editing/formatting. Again, love the idea.

 

We can do 6 weeks.

Ruben

 

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Ruben,

Does that mean I can spiff up my Lafayette Dollar thread and submit it as an entry?

BTW, I had a great idea for a contest, but you were to quick on the draw. I will PM you with the idea in a bit.

Paul

 

100% - if you include it under early US the comems as a type. BTW - do you want to be a judge this time. It might be easier to do Jef Nickels.

 

I would love to be a judge.

 

hmm
perhaps I will write another on the Colombian Exposition Half

 

Just keep in mind that the articles have to be on types, not individual years, which makes Comem's pretty hard to write since you'd have to cover the entire run.

Ruben

 

Oh...
well, in that case, I'll pass on that. lol