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Attitude > Knowledge > Skills

Attitude is the first and maybe the toughest of our three Challenges. Why? Because it requires examining yourself and your feelings and your behavior and displaying those in an essay that reveals the inner you. Some of us might find that a little scary. So here’s the good news. You already know that we’re going to keep your true identity private as this contest goes on and only those to whom you choose to reveal your identity will know. And we will not post your essay on the web site unless you are a finalist and even then your alias will be maintained.

 

Finally, only if you become a winner will your words on Attitudes be displayed with your identity. But hey, by then it will be worth it ‘cause you’re a winner.

 

So where the heck do you begin? Here are some themes that might work for your essay:

  • My top ten reasons why my attitude will keep me from crashing.
  • A letter to my younger brother/sister on the importance of their attitude to making them crash-free.
  • The most important attitudes for crash-free driving.
  • Can you be a crash-free driver and still have fun? How and why.
  • Some attitudes I’ve seen in my friends—the best and the worst.
  • What is an attitude, anyway, and how do you get good ones?
  • How I would predict a friend will crash by examining his/her attitude.
  • Some attitudes that I admire in my friends.
  • How I would rank Attitude, Knowledge and Skill in crash-free driving and why.

Those are just some of the themes that your essay might take, but certainly not the only ones.

Scoring

Essays will be scored on a 10 point scale with 30 points for each aspect on the scale, total 300 points. While we will not reveal the entire scale you can be sure that originality will be there along with imagination, style, grammar, vocabulary, content, humor, facts, and so on.

 

Essays must be limited to 800 words plus or minus 20.

Disqualification

Essays will be disqualified for vulgarity, foul language, personal attacks, plagiarism, or political statements (like “the stupid fuzz busted me….”)

 

So Ladies and Gentlemen….start your word processors. Let’s go racin’.

 

 


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