Writing Guides
Choosing and Refining Topics
Strategies for Finding Topics Appropriate to Particular Types of Assignments
Sometimes your ways of generating topics will depend on the type of writing assignment you have been given. Here are some ideas of strategies you can use in finding topics for some of the more common types of writing assignments:
- Essays Based on Personal Experience
- Essays Responding to or Interpreting Texts
- Essays in Which You Take a Position on an Issue (Argument)
- Essays Requiring Research
- Essays in Which You Evaluate
- Essays in Which You Propose Solutions to Problems