The Golden Pen Awards is the highest competition for budding writers (journalism) in both private and public schools in the
Western Visayas
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Philippines
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pursuant to the ''Sec. 1 Rule IX of'' Republic Act 7079 also known as Campus Journalism Act of 1991. The writing contest includes both students from the elementary and secondary level.
This journalism contest is separately organized compared to Regional Schools Press Conference (RSPC) wherein the winners will advance to the
National Schools Press Conference (NSPC). This structure would still depend on the organizing committees and to
Department of Education (Philippines)
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to ensure a higher standard for the campus journalists. The contest is scheduled annually with four level/category to select its winners started from grades 3–4, grades 5–6 for the elementary level and 1st year to 2nd year and 3rd to 4th year for the high school level.
[''Golden Pen Awardees,]
Visayan Daily Star
September 5, 2006 edition
Training, development and contest
Students who will compete in the Golden Pen Awards attend seminars before the actual competition. The contest are all in English medium and all category are judged independently and all points will be added to every writer's entry which will determain his standing and the overall points will be total to the school standing as a group contest. There will group winners awarded as top 10 best performing schools, individual ranking from 10th place up to the 1st place standing in six categories, likewise the most promising writer, outstanding writer and the highest individual awards as golden pen awards recipient.
Contest and categories
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News Writing
News style, journalistic style, or news-writing style is the prose style used for news reporting in media, such as newspapers, radio, and television.
News writing attempts to answer all the basic questions about any particular event—who, what, ...
* Editorial
Cartooning
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the literar ...
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Editorial Writing
An editorial, or leading article (UK) or leader (UK), is an article or any other written document, often unsigned, written by the senior editorial people or publisher of a newspaper or magazine, that expresses the publication's opinion about a ...
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Feature Writing
* Sports Writing
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Copyreading /
Headline
The headline is the text indicating the content or nature of the article below it, typically by providing a form of brief summary of its contents.
The large type ''front page headline'' did not come into use until the late 19th century when incre ...
Writing
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Editorial Cartooning
An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. Their cartoons are used to convey and question an aspect of daily news or current ...
See also
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National Schools Press Conference
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Up The Hill
References
External links
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Department of Education (Philippines)
The Department of Education (DepEd; ) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for ensuring access to, promoting equity in, and improving the quality of basic education. It is the main agency tasked to manage and g ...
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