Exploration of Topic

• Your essay should demonstrate a profound exploration of the chosen topic. Dive into various dimensions, considering diverse perspectives and implications.

• Connect your topic with issues crucial to our community. Highlight its significance within our context and its potential impact on our collective well-being.

  
  

• Offer unique insights or perspectives that enrich understanding or provoke critical reflection within the stratum community.

Effective Communication

• Ensure your arguments are presented logically and coherently. Make it easy for the reader to follow your train of thought.

  
  

• Captivate your audience with compelling narratives, examples, or rhetorical devices. Sustain their interest throughout the essay.

  
  

• Support your claims with evidence, reasoning, and logical progression. Persuade your audience through the strength of your arguments.

Grammar and Spelling

• Write with grammatical accuracy and syntactical proficiency. Craft sentences that are clear, concise, and free from errors.

  
  

• Pay attention to standard spelling and punctuation conventions. Maintain consistency in punctuation, capitalisation, and spelling throughout your essay.

  
  

• Ensure a harmonious flow of language that enhances readability and professional presentation. Maintain consistency in style and tone throughout your writing.

Top tips:

• 1000-words (with 10% leeway)

• If you include information about another organisation, individual, or property in any way that may be challenged, you are required to provide SCA with the third party authority.

  
  

• If there is a negative reference to a third party, it will be omitted prior to the judging process.

• Citations/references do not count towards the word count and must be uploaded to the References/Citations field in the awards platform.

ELIGIBILITY

1. Entry is open to current members of all categories in Queensland.

2. Must NOT have a Code of Conduct complaint upheld against them over the last two (2) years at time of nomination.

3. Must be an original essay that has not been entered in any other Strata Community Awards in any of the SCA regions in the current or previous year/s.

4. The winner of this award category will progress to the 2024-2025 SCA Australasia as a Finalist subject to meeting the T&Cs.

5. Entrants confirm by submitting their Essay, permission is granted for the Essay to be published across SCA platforms at SCA discretion.