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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 666440, member: 4381&quot;]OK - Let&#039;s start the official Coin Talk Journal!&nbsp; Put your writing and editing skills to the test and see if you have what it takes to be a published author.</p><p><br /></p><p>Contest Contest Contest:</p><p><br /></p><p>Object of the game:&nbsp; To Win!</p><p><br /></p><p>Object of the game number 2: To Learn!</p><p><br /></p><p>Object of the game number 3:&nbsp; To Educate!</p><p><br /></p><p>Object of the game number 4:&nbsp; to have FUN!</p><p><br /></p><p>Background:&nbsp; All fields worth of study have Journals where research and commentary is shared among the college of learned experts.&nbsp; We&#039;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</p><p><br /></p><p>The Task:&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; Include annotation, images as necessary, and, of course, your write up.&nbsp; Write for your target audience, Coin Talk readers and Coin Collectors world wide.</p><p><br /></p><p>The top 10 Articles will be selected by our crack committee, which I haven&#039;t chosen yet, and the top article will be featured on the cover of the Journal, and receive the <b>Grand Prize</b> - 5 beautifully printed framed photo&#039;s from the award winning coin photographer... ME, and win a FREE copy of the Journal, AND, as if that wasn&#039;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.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: Red"><b>Requirements:</b></span></p><p>Each Article is to be submitted in its own new thread!!!! with an original title that must start with the words:&nbsp; &quot;COINTALK JOURNAL SUBMISSION:&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Each Article should be at least 1,000 words... - I have a tool to count the words (that should be about 4 pages??&nbsp; in US Letter print?)</p><p><br /></p><p>Each Article&#039;s copyright is default shared by <b>Cointalk, You and I</b>.&nbsp; I aint getting into any copyright wars.</p><p><br /></p><p>No multimedia...that is for another contest (20,000 posts ?? )</p><p><br /></p><p>All the articles MUST be on topic:&nbsp; <b>Coins, Tokens and Paper Money</b></p><p><b><span style="color: Red"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: Red"><font size="5"><font face="Arial Black">ALL ARTICLES MUST BE IN TEXT or HTML FORMAT.&nbsp; Don&#039;t post a darn pdf or image.</font></font></span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: Red">Judging Articles:</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Articles will be judged as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>A) Scholarship - 10 points</p><p>B) Presentation - 10 points</p><p>C) Original Research - 10 point (this can be tough to score points in)</p><p>D) Annotation and Documentation - 10 points...</p><p><br /></p><p>Write everything with Free Software (OpenOffice, the GIMP et al) get a free 5 points.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The resulting Journal will either be published on my printer or on LULU.com, depending on the demand. ( <a href="http://www.lulu.com/publish/books/?cid=publish_portal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.lulu.com/publish/books/?cid=publish_portal" rel="nofollow">http://www.lulu.com/publish/books/?cid=publish_portal</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>Everything will be put together and edited into a single magazine.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ebook versions will be available at some yet to be determined price -- again, profits going to cointalk.</p><p><br /></p><p>OK - that is it!&nbsp; Let&#039;s get to work. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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