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Wednesday, January 27, 3 p.m. at the Library of Virginia VML President Ron Rordam (center left) and Governor McAuliffe (center right) congratulate the winners the 2016 “If I were Mayor Essay” contest. (L to R) Evan Lankford of Falls Church; Brynley Meadows of Culpeper; Alexander Elstun of Chesterfield County; Lily McClung of Fishersville; Simran Kaur Gill of Salem; Alyssa Levy of King William; Sumer Grace Lloyd of Bristol; and Grace Coover of Petersburg. Governor Terry McAuliffe presented awards to one statewide winner and seven regional winners of the VML “If I Were Mayor” Essay Contest. The contest, hosted by the Virginia Municipal League, drew more than 1,000 entries from seventh graders throughout the state. Their challenge was to describe what they would do if they were mayor of their hometown. The winners are: Statewide winner: Lily McClung of Fishersville (also Region 3 winner) Region 1: Sumer Grace Lloyd of Bristol Region 2: Simran Kaur Gill of Salem Region 4: Grace Coover of Petersburg Region 5: Evan Lankford of Falls Church Region 6: Brynley Meadows of Culpeper Region 7: Alexander Elstun of Chesterfield County Region 8: Alyssa Levy of King William County   Download contest rules here Each fall the Virginia Municipal League (VML) invites all Virginia 7th Graders to participate in its “If I Were Mayor” essay contest. The essays describe what the student would do as mayor to make their cities and towns great places to live. Promoting good local government is important to VML, and this essay contest provides students the opportunity to reflect on the important role of elected officials in their own city or town. Eight Virginia regional winners are selected. Winners receive a 0 cash prize and plaque. One statewide winner is selected and receives a 0 cash prize and plaque. The winners, along with their teachers, are recognized at a special ceremony in.
What this handout is about At some time in your undergraduate career, you’re going to have to write an essay exam. This thought can inspire a fair amount of fear: we struggle enough with essays when they aren’t timed events based on unknown questions. The goal of this handout is to give you some easy and effective strategies that will help you take control of the situation and do your best. Why do instructors give essay exams? Essay exams are a useful tool for finding out if you can sort through a large body of information, figure out what is important, and explain why it is important. Essay exams challenge you to come up with key course ideas and put them in your own words and to use the interpretive or analytical skills you’ve practiced in the course. Instructors want to see whether: You understand concepts that provide the basis for the course You can use those concepts to interpret specific materials You can make connections, see relationships, draw comparisons and contrasts You can synthesize diverse information in support of an original assertion You can justify your own evaluations based on appropriate criteria You can argue your own opinions with convincing evidence You can think critically and analytically about a subject What essay questions require Exam questions can reach pretty far into the course materials, so you cannot hope to do well on them if you do not keep up with the readings and assignments from the beginning of the course. The most successful essay exam takers are prepared for anything reasonable, and they probably have some intelligent guesses about the content of the exam before they take it. How can you be a prepared exam taker? Try some of the following suggestions during the semester: Do the reading as the syllabus dictates; keeping up with the reading while the related concepts are being discussed in class saves you double the effort.
After 15 years and some 90,000 essays, GMA has discontinued the statewide If I Were Mayor, I Would essay contest for 6th graders. Cities, however, are encouraged to hold their own local contests. GMA remains committed to working with educators in Georgia and we look forward to the next step in that process. Thank you to the thousands of 6th graders - and their teachers and parents who encouraged them! - who participated each year! Your essays were brilliant, profound, insightful, sad, funny and always a bright spot in our year.  .
Summary: MLA (Modern Language Association) style is most commonly used to write papers and cite sources within the liberal arts and humanities. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page. Contributors:Tony Russell, Allen Brizee, Elizabeth Angeli, Russell Keck, Joshua M. Paiz, Michelle Campbell, Rodrigo Rodríguez-Fuentes, Daniel P. Kenzie, Purdue OWL StaffLast Edited: 2014-11-18 10:11:10 When you directly quote the works of others in your paper, you will format quotations differently depending on their length. Below are some basic guidelines for incorporating quotations into your paper. Please note that all pages in MLA should be double-spaced. Short quotations To indicate short quotations (fewer than four typed lines of prose or three lines of verse) in your text, enclose the quotation within double quotation marks. Provide the author and specific page citation (in the case of verse, provide line numbers) in the text, and include a complete reference on the Works Cited page. Punctuation marks such as periods, commas, and semicolons should appear after the parenthetical citation. Question marks and exclamation points should appear within the quotation marks if they are a part of the quoted passage but after the parenthetical citation if they are a part of your text. For example, when quoting short passages of prose, use the following examples: According to some, dreams express profound aspects of personality (Foulkes 184), though others disagree. According to Foulkes's study, dreams may express profound aspects of personality (184). Is it possible that dreams may express profound aspects of personality (Foulkes 184)? When.
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