Writing a Persuasive Essay Topic - Using the New York Times

Many people find themselves in a tight spot when they have to write a persuasive essay topic, for many reasons. Perhaps it is because you have not written a persuasive essay topic in a while, or maybe it is because you have written too many, and it seems that you cannot remember which ones you wrote last week, let alone the previous week.

In fact, the New York Times, in a recent poll, revealed that ninety-seven percent of all their recent articles were written by writers that they had hired at a job fair. It is quite amazing when you consider that at these job fairs, the article writers are completely unqualified, and are considered unreliable. After that poll was conducted, the Editor of the New York Times made an important change to their hiring process, and now they use a technical quality control checker, and a soft-copy editor.

You may be thinking that this makes sense, but in actuality, it is not a good thing, because you might be hiring writing from someone who has not actually written an essay topic, and who was only assigned an essay topic. So, how do you find someone who has not written an essay topic before? Well, you need to do some research. If you go to your local library, or your local college library, and find reference books that cover persuasive essay topics, you will have quite a bit of information to work with.

But you do not want to rely on just one book, as this will not help you locate these powerful essay topics. A comprehensive reference book on persuasive essay topics is required. You can search online, but you need to keep your eyes open for references that cover much more than what your local library has to offer. After all, if you do not have any reference materials, you will not be able to find these types of essays.

The best resource to use when you need to get these types of essay topics is the New York Times, and other major newspapers that specialize in persuasion, such as the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. Most of these news outlets have articles on their front page, and you can usually find some on the inside pages, if you are lucky.

As you learn more about old persuasive essay topics, you can use that information to put together a sample of your own, so that you can make changes in order to make it even more persuasive. For example, if you wrote about the group of women at the theater, and you learned that the group of women loved the talk show, you can rewrite that paragraph as follows:

'The former lover of a woman in a distinguished history class got so mad at her that she confronted her as she was leaving the classroom, denouncing her for the rest of the class period.' Now, it could be said that all you have done is recycled an old argument, and you have started your reader off thinking that they already know what you have in mind. Or you can replace that particular paragraph with something like this: 'After the woman in the distinguished history class got so mad at her, she confronted her as she was leaving the classroom, denouncing her for the rest of the class period.'

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