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534 examples and lessons to explore. Find an approach, follow the thinking, and try it in your own writing.
Should Schools Make Time for Physical Activity Every Day?
A qualified argument for daily school-based movement that weighs health and cognitive benefits against instructional time, accessibility, and the rest of a student’s day.
Online Friendship and Friendship in Person
A compare-and-contrast essay examining how online and in-person friendships provide support, enable communication, and create different limits, using teen survey findings from 2024.
Why Scientific Curiosity Needs Room for Unexpected Results
An argument that scientific inquiry should leave room for discoveries researchers cannot predict, while using evidence, peer review, and responsible choices to guide investment.
Edmund’s Rebellion in King Lear: Ambition and Injustice
A literary analysis of how Edmund turns resentment over illegitimacy into a campaign against family and political authority, and what his rise and defeat suggest about inheritance in King Lear.
Urban Trees and Housing: Why Shade Is a Neighborhood Issue
An explanatory essay on how vegetation can reduce heat exposure, why shade in shared residential spaces matters, and what national housing-cost data can—and cannot—show about access to useful public space.
European International Relations from the French Revolution to 1815
The most consequential change was the intensification of the British-French struggle for European supremacy into a prolonged series of conflicts that continued the French Revolutionary Wars. This rivalry repeatedly drew other states into a struggle over power and helped make warfare, rather than stable diplomacy, a defining feature of European relations in the period.
Nuclear Waste: A Real Tradeoff in Low-Carbon Electricity
An evidence-based explanation of why nuclear power’s low operational carbon emissions do not remove the need to manage radioactive waste, plant impacts, and long-term storage responsibilities.
UC PIQ 5: A Significant Challenge and Its Academic Effects
An illustrative first-person response showing how to connect a personal challenge to concrete actions, academic effects, support, and reflection.
GRE Issue Essay on Teacher Salaries and Student Performance
A model argument that student achievement should inform, but not determine, teacher pay. It weighs accountability against unequal conditions and the limits of performance measures.
GRE Issue Essay on When Society Should Save Endangered Species
An argument that conservation should respond to the seriousness of extinction risk and the public interest, not only to whether people caused the threat.
The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Curtain and the Hidden Portrait
An analysis of how the concealed portrait connects Dorian Gray’s public image to his private moral life and shapes the novel’s structure.
How Housing Costs Shape the Choices of American Workers
An explanatory essay on how housing expenses affect workers’ budgets, employment choices, and resilience, while examining the limits of the cost-burden measure.