The essay is a notice issued to the whole society by publishing houses, newspaper editorial departments, organizers of large-scale exhibitions, organizing committees of large-scale commemorative activities and various groups or departments to solicit a special manuscript or calligraphy, painting and photography works. If the collection object is limited to the scope of the manuscript, it can also be called "essay notice"
Essays can be used for publishing houses to collect manuscripts of a series of books, such as Essays for Contemporary Writers in China. It can be used for a special activity of newspapers and magazines, such as "essays commemorating the 50th anniversary of the victory of the anti-fascist struggle"; It can be applied to the preparation of calligraphy exhibitions, such as "essays for calligraphy and painting exhibitions of veteran cadres"; You can mobilize the masses to carry out a special study or special investigation, such as "special investigation essay on teaching reform in primary and secondary schools".
Writing of essay notice
1. Title
The title of the essay consists of series name plus language, or activity name plus language. For example, the title of the essay for the first Antique Cup China Prose Competition is the name of the activity, and the essay is the language. Sometimes it can be abbreviated as "essay" or "essay"
2. Text
The text of the essay notice includes the following aspects:
I. Purpose and significance of soliciting contributions. For example, "In order to fully display the outstanding achievements of contemporary prose creation and a strong author camp, expand famous writers, introduce new people, and promote the prosperity of literature in the new century ..... we are now collecting papers from home and abroad.
Second, the content and genre of the essay. For example, "series selection, collection of novels, prose, poetry, drama and other genres of personal albums (not less than 4 volumes of about 90,000 words), with special emphasis on novellas with good themes and high taste."
Third, the method of manuscript selection. For example, "our department will hire experts to form an evaluation committee to select excellent manuscripts for publication".
Fourth, publishing or publishing procedures.
For example, "Wen Cong" is published in series according to the manuscript fee, with each series of 10 volumes, and the publication period is three months. After the manuscript is submitted for review, a publishing contract will be signed (any manuscript that fails to pass the review will be returned). The author does not charge fees for topic selection, editing and publishing management. "
legal ground
Copyright law of the people's Republic of China
Article 2 Works of China citizens, legal persons or unincorporated organizations, whether published or not, shall enjoy copyright in accordance with this Law.
The copyright enjoyed by the works of foreigners and stateless persons in accordance with the agreement signed between the country to which the author belongs or the country of habitual residence and China or the international treaties to which * * * is a party shall be protected by this Law.
Works of foreigners and stateless persons first published in China shall enjoy copyright in accordance with this Law.
The works of authors and stateless persons from countries that have not signed agreements with China or participated in international treaties shall be first published in the member countries of international treaties to which China is a party, or published in both member countries and non-member countries at the same time, and shall be protected by this Law.
Article 3 The term "works" as mentioned in this Law refers to intellectual achievements that are original and can be expressed in a certain form in the fields of literature, art and science, including:
(1) Written works;
(2) Oral works;
(3) Music, drama, folk art, dance and acrobatic works;
(4) Artistic and architectural works;
(5) Photographic works;
(6) Audio-visual works;
(seven) engineering design drawings, product design drawings, maps, schematic diagrams and other graphic works and model works;
(8) Computer software;
(9) other intellectual achievements that meet the characteristics of the work.