A good topic for writing a piece that is about to go into a competition and is 2000 words or less?
613244
How about something about what it would be like if every city or town took care of their own?  \n\nIt would be a "what if" paper and you could let your imagination go with it.\n\nWhat if churches took collections to help the poor, hungry, homeless ect and not collect money to build a new million dollar church for themselves?\n\nWhat if school children sold candy bars etc to make money to help the needy in their own town and not to earn prizes for themselves?\n\nWhat if we took care of our own first before we took care of the rest of the world?  \n\nWhat should towns and / or cities do when they have citizens who have more money than most?  Should they give more?  \n\nAnyway, it's something to think about? and it will leave the competition graders with something different to think about also.
1117487
Hi there, Go to   writing.com  It is an awsome site and will surley answer any question you may have..
610734
Try to incorporate their experiences with the assignments. And leave competition out of it. Try grading them on length, creativity, simplicity, structure, etc. Some subjects could be scariest, funniest, saddest, best experiences with family, friends, neighbors, and in what area of life that they occurred. Like sports, vacations, camping, swimming, zoo, museums. They could write about thier favorite electronic game, animal, celebrity, colors and numbers, name and so forth.
733737
it depends what you need to write about. Is it school events, world events. Could it be current, or a recap?\n\nYou need to be more specific!
929842
The most important part of college is to attend and to turn SOMETHING in on the deadline. Even if it's not quite 500 words it will be just one grade if it's not an "A" you have time left in the semester to bounce back. Also, if you can clearly make your point (depending on the subject, if it's a writing class then you should probably type the appropriate number of words), if your essay covers your topic completely and is supported by original thought and support from your text, then you should be good. It's not your fault you can write in a condense and concise form and cover your topic thoroughly with 150 less words then the rest of his/her students.
752570
ask some classmates to teem up and do a short play :) employ some symbolical costumes and scenes.. that would be fun\n\n\nedited.. oops! spiegy200 came up faster with the same idea! :)
103582
Try to think of things that really interest you and you will find the paper a lot easier to write and enjoy it a lot more. If you are interested in basketball then you could write about the different nationalities that play in the NBA and how they seem to progress through the league. If you like hip-hop then you could do a piece on this and talk about the successes of black rappers versus white rappers, and also the difference between the successes of male and female rappers.\nThose are just a couple of ideas but I would try to think of something that interests you personally.
339951
Decide what your story is going to be about.  Choose a topic about which you know something.  Quite often, an event in your own life as c child can be used as the core basis of your story.  \n\nHow old will your readers be?  This will determine how large your vocabulary is. (If they are very young, important words should be repeated in the telling of your story.)\n\nChoose your characters.  Often one stands for good, and the other one creates problems.  \n\nWhat is the must exciting secion of your story?  Choose a clever title.  You must have colorful pictures. \n\nPicture yourself climbing a mountain.  Imagine what happens as you climb up the mountain.  When you get to the top of the mountain, you are at the most exciting point.  What do you see and feel as you come down the mountain?  Your last paragraph should sum up the story and give the reader "good all over feelin".   You write your story with your points or examples in the story in the same order as if you were climbing the mountain.
353484
A scientific journal (like "Science" or "Sky and Telescope"). I do suggest, however, that you let a professor read it before you submit it. Even if you have a brilliant idea, they will throw it away if it's not properly presented.
122954
I would tell a story, a passage in time, an anecdote which changed my life. Give details, describe as though people can actually visualise it. Put adjectives, move around a bit, mimic (OK not everybody can do that but it calms your nerves at the same time).. Make it very lively, don't use long and big, elaborate sentences and go straight to the point.
789237
I would be cautious.  If your teacher only wanted 1000 words, they could take off points for going over the limit.    Since its a guidance, you could go over a little, but 5x over is quite a bit.  I think you should try to give the main idea, without going in to too many details.  They probably just want to check to make sure that you understand what you're doing, without having to read 10 pages.
36141
Well, a good topic for public speaking would be the problems facing the world at the moment with a possible bird flu (avian flu)pandemic and the shortage of fresh water. Either of those topics would be interesting. Good luck.
992159
One of the other answers hinted at the key: start general....what is the broad topic you want to write about (e.g., academic achievement, drug abuse, accounting scandals) and then get more specific (e.g., racial differences in academic achievement, social causes of drug abuse, ways to avert accounting scandals), and then even more specific.....but start general, then get specific.
192899
Write about something you know, and dont try to use big words if they aren't necessary.  Use a great hook at the beginning but it's just an essay dont get carried away, just stay away from "Have you ever heard about......Well I'm going to tell you about...." or stupid introductions like that.  Make sure you use transitions in between paragraphs.  the last sentence of a paragraph should relate to the first sentence in the next paragraph.  \ndepending on the college, most have a writing center that have people there to help you get your ideas out on paper.  I suggest going there if you need help in the technical aspect of how to write it, if it is ideas on an open essay (you pick the topic) then just think about something you truely enjoy or are knowledgable about.
534054
First of all, u need to know exactly what ur gonna write about, set the exact content and organization for it. Start by a catchy intro, a question, anecdote, quotation and so on. Write the intro from general to specific and only mention the exact topic of urs in the last sentence after having talked about the history or such. For every body paragraph, try to do ur best in unfiying the topic about it and metnion it generally in the 1st sentence. Write a good conclusion by giving a suggestion, recommendation, advice or even summarize what u have mentioned in the body par. \nThru doing this u have to take PERFECT care of ur grammar and ur choice of Vocabulary.\nEvery par should not beless than 6 sentences MINIMUM to be of a decent content.
137720
Not bad for a first attempt.\n\nDo a search for similar sites and get an idea of what your competition is doing.
617751
i am an editor a a pretty good one (acording to my friends and stuff) and i wrote a mini story for homework. i'm writing a story if i get some time over summer. i hope it gets published