You are starting college and your parents have just dropped you off. You are excited to be finally on your own with no adult directions, rules, and such. Or, you are a returning students having spent the summer at home with all of your old friends – what fun! Now you are here, and the realities of college life begin to creep in – you are away from family and friends; the work is getting hard; and you are beginning to feel somewhat helpless and alone.

Choosing a topic for a cause and effect essay is not as easy as you might think. The biggest issue with topic selection is manageability, because choosing a topic that has too many causes or too many effects will create an organizational nightmare for you, not to mention a horrible mess as you attempt to write the essay.

One would think that space exploration is not an extremely controversial topic, but it is. What’s not to like about exploring space – our “final frontier” as one popular TV series called it. There are many social, political, and economic aspects to space exploration.

If you are currently enrolled in a political science, a modern world history, or an international relations course, you will eventually address the civil war in Syria. And, to be certain, this is a hugely complex topic with many factors that play into the horrific conflict that has now lasted for three years

Students often think that interview essays might actually be assigned in a journalism class and that the essay will actually be in the form of a news article. Actually, there are many opportunities for an interview essay to be assigned, in many diverse courses, and it is highly likely that you will receive such a task at some point in your academic career.