The document provides guidance on writing a community service essay by suggesting five groups of questions to narrow the topic according to personal interest and experience. It offers specific types of essays to consider, such as reflective, persuasive, comparative, cause and effect, and problem solution, along with tips on structuring the essay effectively. The document emphasizes the importance of quality in community service and discusses potential solutions to improve it, including setting high volunteer standards and educating children about responsibility.

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2. If you have to write a community
service essay, we recommend you to
narrow this topic according to your
interests.
To narrow the topic, look through
these five groups of questions we
have prepared for writing a
community service essay.

3. 1. Have you ever been a volunteer? Have you
ever been a member of a voluntary organization?
Can you write about your own experience?
2. What is your personal opinion on the
following questions:
Should school teachers discuss community
service issue with the students? Should parents
teach their children to be helpful? Is it an
important character trait in our modern world?

4. 3. Can you compare the personality traits of
volunteers and those people who do nothing
to help others?
Can you compare the quality of a voluntary
work and well-paid work (according to your
own experience or experience of your
relatives, friends and old acquaintances)?
4. What are the main reasons of being a
volunteer? What would be the consequences
if all the people were volunteers?

5. 5. How can we be sure in the high quality
community service?
How can we increase the amount of people
who are ready to work without being paid?
How to bring up a young volunteer?
Choose one of these five groups of question
which is the most interesting namely for you.

6. 1. If you have ever been a volunteer (a member
of a voluntary organization) and can share
your own experience with your potential
readers, you may write a reflective essay
concerned with community service issue.
2. In the case if you have a gift to persuade
other people, you can write a persuasive essay
on community service topic.

7. 3. If you want to make a comparative analysis,
write a compare and contrast essay on
community service topic.
4. In the case if your choice is the fourth group
of questions, write a cause and effect essay
concerned with community service issue.
5. If you have chosen the last group of
questions as the most interesting for you, you
may try to write a problem solution essay
about community service.

8. Suppose you have chosen the question “How
can we be sure in the high quality community
service?” to write a community service essay.

9. 1. An Introduction Paragraph
You may start your essay with a
statement like this: “It’s not a secret
that some people do so called
“voluntary work” not with the best
motives, but mainly for hyping about
it. That’s why a community service
sometimes may be a clumsy
assistance…”

10. 2. Supporting Paragraphs
As you write a problem solution essay,
you have to offer the possible ways of
solving the problem in the body
paragraphs of your essay.

11. 2.1. The First Way of Solving the Problem
You may say that one of the possible ways
of solving the problem of poor quality
community service is high requirements
and strict selections of potential
volunteers.
However, it may cause another problem
which is reducing the amount of
volunteers.

12. 2.2. The Second Way of Solving the Problem
The second way of solving this problem is
more durable. Write that parents should teach
their kids to be responsible for their actions.
The disadvantage of this method is its
duration in time.
Add your own ways of solving this problem
and describe their pros and cons.

13. 3. A Conclusion Paragraph
You may make a conclusion that we have
combine different ways of solving the
problem of poor quality community
service for the best result.

14. Good luck in writing your
community service essay!