150 Topics to Draft an Effective Persuasive Essay

1. 150 Topics to Draft an Effective Persuasive Essay

2. Introduction A persuasive essay, as you may know, is a type of writing that aims to persuade the readers into believing that the argument or claim made in the essay is correct. Even though there are quite a few similarities between an argumentative essay and a persuasive essay, the latter one tends to be a bit kinder and gentler. While in an argumentative essay, you need to discuss and contradict the alternate views, a persuasive essay takes a more lenient approach to convince the reader that the writer has made a believable argument.

4. In terms of the primary objective, both persuasive and the argumentative essay tries to utilize logic and reason to prove that the mentioned idea or argument is better than any other existing idea or argument. Even though there are several other ways to establish one’s point, persuasive essays must always make proper reason by stating facts, providing solid evidence and logical reasoning, using relevant examples and mentioning a few significant quotes from the experts. If you are planning on writing a persuasive essay, you need to consider of a few significant thumb-rules.

5. Pick a Topic Whether you realize it or not, the topic of an essay often determines how interesting your essay is going to be. Due to this reason, it becomes quite important to pick a topic that not only pokes the interests of your audience but also adds more value to your career (academic or professional). You can either brainstorm and come up with a topic that fulfills the aforementioned requirements or refer to some of the sample topics which we shall discuss later in this blog.

6. Know Where you Stand Once you have selected a topic for your persuasive essay, your second objective should be to identify your position. In simpler words, you need to acknowledge which side of the issue you are going to write about. Some of the essay topics can be too vague and broad to fit in a five-paragraph-long essay. So, it’s more convenient to explore a particular aspect of the topic rather than covering it entirely. Also, before you start writing the essay, you need to understand what will be your stand in the essay.

7. Understand your Audience This is perhaps the most significant step that you need to consider while drafting a persuasive essay. You can write a remarkable essay on a particular topic, but if your audience (or reader) does not receive it well, all the efforts will go in vain.  As a matter of fact, you need to analyze and acknowledge your audience before you can start working on the essay.

8. Do your Research As mentioned before, a persuasive essay must offer some precise and convincing pieces of evidence to support the claim or argument that is mentioned in it. So in order to gather those valuable pieces of the puzzle, you need to look beyond your personal experience and knowledge and explore other potential sources of information. If possible go through all the available documents on the particular topic, including both printed and digital sources of information.

9. Be Organized When you are working on the essay, you can’t just haphazardly state your arguments and randomly use the pieces of evidence to prove your point. You need a structured outline which will tell you what should be placed where. Present your arguments and evidence in an orderly fashion so that readers don’t get confused while going through your essay.

10. Remember to follow these unbeatable thumb-rules while approaching a persuasive essay. As mentioned before, finding a perfect topic that meets all the requirements (audiences’ preferences, own interests, relevance, uniqueness and precision) can be harder than it sounds. To make this simpler for you, we have assembled some interesting persuasive essay topics that can help you accelerate the topic selection process for your pending persuasive essay.

11. Do Facebook and other social media isolate you from the reality? • Do children benefit if everyone in the team receives a reward (even for participation)? • Are we too dependent on technology? • Should the minimum wage be increased? • Is it a good idea to make childhood vaccinations compulsory? • How are security cameras invading our privacy? • Should citizens be allowed to pet exotic animals? • Is it necessary to have a formal dress code at the workplace?

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