Instructors
We invite you to send us your students' best essays to be considered for publication in future editions of Readings Online. Research has shown that students' writing skills improve when they study the efforts of writers at similar skill levels.

Rules of the Contest
Essays must focus on the topic of the Internet and be related to one of the eight thematic chapters in Paul Amore'sReadings Online: A Virtual Common Place:internet communities, electronic literacies, hypertext fiction, gender and identity, intellectual property, politics on the Internet, censorship, and the New Millennium.

Essays must be from five to ten typed pages long, double-spaced. All entries must be received by December 31, 2000.

Prizes
Entries will be judged by an editorial panel led by Paul Amore.

Up to ten essays will be chosen for publication. In addition to being published in Readings Online,each winner will receive $100.

Up to ten essays will be selected for honorary mention. Writers of these essays will receive $50.

All instructors who submit essays will receive their choice of a Houghton Mifflin trade book as a token of our appreciation.

For More Information
To learn more about the contest or to submit an essay, please write to Janet Young, Houghton Mifflin Company, 222 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116-3764. Or send an email to csweb.Janet_Young@cengage.com.