Dialogue,Story & Article Writing Competition - Rules and Regulations

General Rules and Regulations

• No entry fee is required.
• The contest is open to all the undergraduate and graduate students in PIEAS.
• Topics for each competition will be announced at the time of competition
• Any article having excessive violence, vulgarity or religious extremism determined by the judges, will not be considered.
•   Decisions of judges will be final and unchallengeable.
• One can participate in Article writing and Dialogue writing competition  at a time or Story writing and Dialogue writing at a time, since Article and Story Writing will run in parallel. 
• Article Writing and Story Writing Competition will be in Urdu and English language as separate competitions. Whether Dialogue Writing Competition will only be in Urdu.

Rules for Article Writing

·         Initially participants will be given 7 topics for article writing.

·         Each participant will have 20 minutes to write outlines of all 7 topics.

·         After 20 minutes, 2 out of 7 topics will be selected by draw.

·         Participants will be given 10 minutes to fine tune the outlines of 2 topics selected though draw.

·         In the end, 1 out of the 2 chosen topics will be selected by draw

·         Each participant will have to write a complete article of 500 to 700 words on the final topic within 40 minutes. 

Rules for Story Writing

·         One outline will be given to participants.

·         Lead of the story will be provided.

·         Participants will have to complete the story within 50 minutes.

Rules for Dialogue Writing

·         3 scenarios will be given to participants.

·         Scenarios will be in Urdu language.

·         Participants will be given 15 minutes for each scenario.

·         Participants will have to write Urdu dialogues on all of the three scenarios

·         A dialogue should not exceed 8 switches.