OPINION ARTICLE DIVISION
an opinion-writing and poster-designing competition open for undergraduate
(Diploma/Bachelor's/Sarjana's Degree) students across ASEAN countries and the globe.
AVISOC 2021 is a competition that challenges university students to express their best
opinion on world issues in the form of article or poster.
AVISOC 2021 holds 2 (two) divisions for concerned participants to choose:
Their active status as student will be acknowledged by attaching a photo of their Student ID
during the registration process.
1. Opinion Article Division
2. Poster Division
An Opinion is an article, usually published in a newspaper or magazine, that mainly reflects
the author’s opinion about a subject. It aims to explain to the reader the author’s
perspective on a certain issue. The perspective can be analytical or persuasive.
Choice of Issues
Participants of Opinion Article Competition may choose one issue that is of best interest to
them. For each issue, the AVISOC Committee will take best three articles to be the winners.
Therefore, in total, there will be 15 winners for this division. The issues to choose is the
following:
1. Issues in educational practices and management
2. Issues in business administration
3. Issues in taxation, accounting, and finance
4. Issues in public administration, public policy, politics, and social trends
5. Issues in digital literacy and information and technology
Requirements
The followings are the things that you need to know before start working on your article.
Please learn carefully.
The article is written by 1 (one) person only.
Every participant is allowed to send maximum 1 (one) article.
The article should consist between 500 words at the most.
Type the article by following these rules:
o Paper size : A4
o Font type : Arial or Times New Roman
o Font size : 12
o Line spacing : 1.5
Quotation from other sources are embedded within the text, so there is no need to
provide a special Reference section below the article. For example: “In developing
countries, energy use from industry rises proportionally to gross domestic product
(GDP), according to the 2017 report from the International Energy Agency or IEA.”
The opinion article should be original and has never been published elsewhere.
Author must fill in and sign Plagiarism Statement provided below.
Note that the organizing committee strongly welcomes very least politicizing pieces
of opinion.
Also note that failing to comply with the above guidelines will result in rejection
in the initial screening phase.
Scoring Criteria
Your article will be scored under the following guidance:
No. Indicator Criteria Weight
1. The content conforms to the chosen
issue.
2. The idea is authentic.
3. The analysis and solution are deep,
1 Content based on data and/or facts, and positive 35%
(prentive, promotive, curative, or
persuasive).
4. Educative (giving positive impact to
readers)
The good flow of the article really
Organizational
2 captivates the reader’s mind, from the 30%
Structure
beginning until the end.
1. Selected dictions are suitable for
3 Language Use general readers. 20%
2. Very little or no grammatical error.
1. The number of words is no more than
4 Mechanics 500 words. 15%
2. Correct and proper use of punctuation.
POSTER DIVISION
Theme
The theme of the Poster Division is: “Tourism Campaign for Living in the Covid19
Pandemic”. The Committee will take the best three posters as the winners of this division.
Requirements
The followings are the things that you need to know before start working on your poster.
Please learn carefully.
Your poster has never been seen or published elsewhere.
The poster can be designed by an individual, or a maximum of 3 (three) persons in a
group of participant with all persons come from the same institution.
Every participant is allowed to send only 1 (one) poster.
The poster is created on an A4-size paper (21 cm x 29.7 cm), in PNG format, with
minimum resolution of 300 ppi.
Put on the logo of your institution on the top side of the poster, along with the
name(s) of the creator(s) on the bottom.
Scoring Criteria
Your poster will be scored under the following guidance:
No. Indicator Criteria Weight
1. The idea is authentic.
1 Originality 2. The poster has never been seen or 20%
published elsewhere.
1. Positive campaign (preventive, curative,
promotive, or persuasive)
Conformity with the
2 2. The depth of exploration to the topic 30%
topic
3. Factuality
1. Composition of content and pictures
(readability and colors)
2. Attractiveness (use of symbols,
3 Visualization 30%
illustration, and others)
3. Esthetics
1. Educative (giving positive influence)
4 Benefits 20%
2. Providing values (wisdom words)
