Persuasive Essay Topics

Looking for a topic? Here are some ideas:

• When you moved to this town, it was relatively small. Now that it’s expanding, your parents consider moving to a calmer place. You, however, have friends here that you don’t want to leave. Talk to your parents about the necessity of staying.
• A friend of yours, a skinny girl, thinks that she needs to lose a few pounds. Tell her why losing more weight will only damage her health.
• Think and prove that living in a big city is better than living in a small town (and vice versa).
• Your friends want to go dancing; however, all this week you’ve been thinking about bowling. Try to persuade them to go to a bowling club.
• Take any common fallacy (like the one that wolves attack people all the time), and prove why it is wrong.
• The effect of cell phones on society
• The effect of iPods on society
• The amount of television and other media used by middle school students