Persuasive Essay Topics

Persuasive Essay Writing

Persuasive essay writing refers to the form of writing where a writer presents his or her viewpoint and analysis in the light of analytical argument, factual data and previous studies.

The format of a persuasive essay normally follows a standard five paragraph essay structure, comprising of introduction, body text and conclusion paragraphs.

List of Topics for Persuasive Writing

Following is a list of topics for persuasive essay writing. You can use these essay prompts for your own essay writing or edit them to your liking.

Persuasive Essay Topics for Kids

• Are school uniforms important enough?
• How much homework is too much homework?
• Why should kids go on field trips.
• Why do we love our parents?
• Why do children prefer television to playing out?
• Pets should be allowed in school.
• I’m old enough to stay at home alone.
• We should all grow our own vegetables.

Persuasive Essay Topics for Elementary or Primary School

(1st, 2nd,3rd, 4rth & 5th Grade)

• Why should people have pets?
• How can we get rid of pollution?
• Milk or sweets
• Sesame Street is a great watch
• Why is war bad?
• Exercising daily is important

Persuasive Essay Topics for Middle or Secondary School

(6th, 7th & 8th Grade)

• Why is proper sleep so important for health?
• Smoking should be banned in public places
• Education should be completely free
• Greenhouse effect due to deforesting

Persuasive Essay Topics for High School

• Cigarettes should be more expensive.
• Smokers should be levied with a health tax.
• Child support dodgers should go to jail.
• Negative influence of fast food on health
• Violent Video Games Should be Banned
• Anorexia is because of obsessiveness with weight loss.
• Negative effect of divorce on children

Persuasive Essay Topics for College

• Was Saddam Hussein’s execution an essential point in establishing democracy in Iraq?
• Bad effect on ecology of air pollution in your city
• Ban on carrying weapons
• College graduates should go off for the travels for a year before getting the job.
• Responsibility of the mothers when raising the child.
• Should mothers work or take care of the children and house.
• Teachers should not interfere into the private lives of student
• The production and sale of cigarettes should be legally prohibited.
• People have become overly dependent on technology.
• Censorship is a justifiable act.
• Privacy is not the most important right; security is.
• Drunk drivers should be imprisoned on the first offense.

Persuasive Essay Topics for University

• Is Health Insurance the Right of all Americans?
• Nuclear Proliferation: Will Development of Nuclear Weapons Fuel a Third World War?
• Is Death Penalty Inhuman?
• Euthanasia: The Right to Die?
• Some Thoughts About Human Cloning.
• Pros and Cons of Adoption.
• The Grim Reality of Climate Change.
• Use of Mobile Phones in Schools.
• Should human cloning be legalized?

Funny Persuasive Essay Topics

• Shouldn’t Russians finally bury Lenin?
• Better naked, than in furs?
• Should men be allowed to have more than one wife?
• Plastic surgeries: a way to become more beautiful, or someone’s unhealthy idea? 
• Puerto Rico should be an empire.
• Kissing in public should be banned
• Men should be sent to another planet.
• Women should be fined every time they scream.

Popular Argumentative Topics and Ideas

• Euthanasia
• Animal Testing
• Drug Abuse
• Child Abuse
• Women’s Rights
• Gay Rights
• School Uniforms
• Death Penalties