Good Persuasive Essay Topic Ideas
Original twists on common term paper topics for great college essays
Jan 30, 2007
Looking for a great persuasive essay topic? Finding the right topic for a term paper is one of the most important (and most difficult) parts of learning how to write a term paper. For help with, here's an article about how to choose a topic for a term paper.
Need some more persuasive essay ideas? Here's a hint for writing persuasive essays: avoid persuasive essays topics about "big issues." These topics are unoriginal and have been used by college students over and over again, and therefore they don't make good topics for research papers. Also, these topics can be too broad to be covered well in a college essay.
However, this doesn't mean you ought to avoid the "big issues" altogether. For an original twist on these overused term paper topics, write about a smaller part of a big issue. This way, your topic will be less broad and more original.
Here are a list of "big issue" topics that have been overused-- and smaller parts of these issues that can make great persuasive essay topics. (You can use these ideas for persuasive speech topics as well!)
Instead of ABORTION, write about one of these related issues:
- Partial birth abortion
- Parental notification laws
- Laws regulating protests at clinics
- Mental and physical risks of abortion
- Public funding of abortions
- Violence against abortion providers
- Adoption issues
- State challenges to Roe vs. Wade
Instead of THE DEATH PENALTY, write about one of these related issues:
- The death penalty for minors
- The death penalty for mentally retarded people
- Televised executions
- The death penalty as a deterrent
- The relationship between race and the death penalty.
- Women and the death penalty
- The long appeals process for death row inmates
- Death penalty methods, such as lethal injection
- The Constitutional question of "cruel and unusual punishment"
Instead of GAY MARRIAGE, write about one of these related issues:
- Same-sex adoption and access to reproductive technologies
- Immigration rights for gay partners of citizens
- Sodomy laws
- Partnership benefits at state and federal institutions
- Health care benefits and gay couples
- Property rights and gay couples
- Inheritance law and gay couples
Instead of PRAYER IN SCHOOL, write about one of these related issues:
- Public displays of the Ten Commandments
- Religious after school clubs at public schools
- Secular and religious holiday decorations in schools
- School vouchers for religious schools
- A mandatory moment of silence in schools
- The Pledge of Allegiance
- Religious music sung in school choruses
- School days off for non-Christian holidays
Get the idea? Be creative. If you have some ideas for persuasive essay topics, please contribute them to the discussion! And for more help on writing a college essay, check out these related articles:
- Persuasive speech topics about student issues
- Fun persuasive essay and speech topics
- How to write a college term paper
- Common term paper mistakes
