Essay Topic Selection Tips That Will Kick-start Your Essay Writing

       January 1, 2012    1626

 

Many students get stuck on the very first step of essay writing that is "topic selection". Here I m going to reveal the strategies which will provide immense essay writing help by making your topic selection real easy and fast.

Define the Purpose of Essay

The first step towards topic selection is to define the purpose of the essay that must be written. Your purpose can be:

? To persuade people to believe on something ? To explain about the completion of a particular task ? To educate people about some person, place, thing or idea OR something else entirely!!!

Whatever topic you choose must fit that purpose!

i) Brain Storming

After determining the purpose of your essay, write down some subjects that interest you. No matter what the purpose of your essay is, an endless number of topics will be suitable. You may also go through the following resources in order to brainstorm:

? Newspapers ? Current periodicals ? Internet ? Current magazines ? Recent articles ? Television news

If you have trouble thinking of subjects, start by looking around you. Is there anything in your surroundings that interests you? Think about your life. What occupies most of your time? That might make for a good topic.

ii) Focusing

The next vital step to select an essay paper topic is to focus and narrow down the idea. While brainstorming, you will come across general essay paper topic. Having decided your essay paper topic, you should analyze it critically to narrow down the topic.

iii) Do's

The topic should present vast scope and chance to discover more and more about it. It should make a debatable issue or controversy or persuasiveness.

iv) Don'ts

Don't choose a topic which does not have much information available about it, because you may land in trouble when you start collecting data and write on it. Don't select a topic which is too controversial that it becomes difficult for you to sum up the controversies. Don't pick a topic which is ordinary and worn out.

I really hope that the above pointers will provide enough essay help to set you up for quick topic selection.


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