Informative Essay
What is an Informative Essay?
An informative essay educates your reader on a topic. They can have one of several functions:
to define a term, compare and contrast something, analyze data, or provide a how-to. They do
not, however, present an opinion or try to persuade your reader.
Examples are; animals, a country, a sport or club, cooking. Below is a list of more ideas.
1. The way homeless people survive
2. School textbooks cost
3. Childhood obesity: Causes and outcomes
4. Why does censorship on TV exist?
5. Talk about favorite book
6. The way cell phones functions
7. Useless school laws
8. The way gravity works
9. The life cycle of any insect of choice
10. Things that make bloggers popular
11. Building a wood cabin
12. What is Artificial Intelligence
Write some of your ideas here?
What do I do?
Make sure all your facts are accurate. You will need to write a topic sentence for each fact and
write a focus sentence (thesis statement) for the entire essay. Create an outline that will
organize your facts in a logical way. Then you will be ready to make your first draft.
Brainstorm to come up with the list of great topics. Conduct research to find which
of the offered topics has most of the related, credible, and up-to-date materials before
making a final decision. Think about which of the potential topics would be the most
beneficial for the reader. Example: Eating disorders are a relevant topic for the modern
society.
