Essay Library Topics

Stuck for a topic to write your essay on? Here are a few ideas.

This list is not exhaustive - you may write on any topic that is related in some way to Taekwon-Do. Do you have some ideas you would like to have added to this list, so other people can write about them? Send them to the webmaster. 

• A database or categorised list of creative training ideas

• Procedures for opening a club (including detailed advice for what to seek in a venue, how to advertise, etc)

• Emergency procedures for a club

• New Instructor's Pack: what should an instructor receive when they first open a new club? What advice? What documents? Put together a suggestion for a full New Instructor's Pack.

• Bookkeeping for clubs

• Legal options for setting up a club: unincorporated club, incorporated society, company, etc; advantages and disadvantages of each; how to do it.

• Gaining new members - how to do it

• Retaining members - how to do it

• Students with disabilities - how to teach them (maybe for a specific disability)

• Club advertising pack - advertisement templates for clubs, using the ITFNZ Taekwon-Do brand (under supervision of Marketing Committee)

• Do we want NZQA recognition?  How do we get NZQA recognition?

• Procedures manual for the International Taekwon-Do Foundation (NZ) Inc - overview; specific parts (multiple theses)

• Tournament sparring

• Eating to win

• Dynamic destructions

• Dynamic demonstrations

• Who's who in New Zealand Sport - key people and key organisations in New Zealand sport

• Teaching kids

• Moral culture explained

• Communication in ITFNZ Taekwon-Do - how do we improve?

• Taekwon-Do and hepatitis - dealing with blood

• Fundraising - ideas, techniques and methods

• Understanding sine wave

• The composition of Taekwon-Do

• Conditioning - what is it all about?

• Pick a tenet and write an essay about what it means in daily life

• Developing instructors - how do we turn today's black belts into tomorrow's instructors?

• The future of ITFNZ Taekwon-Do - using scenario envisioning or another technique to paint a few possible futures

Hints

For many essays, a good starting point is the Encyclopaedia of Taekwon-Do. There may be earlier essays on similar topics in the black belt essays section.. Search the internet. Visit your local library. Make sure you list all of the sources you use at the bottom of your essay, including title, author, year, and publisher or website URL.