Persuade 2.0 available from https://github.com/scrosseye/persuade_corpus_2.0. It contains essays from students covering topics among:

• Online course/classes.
• Student summer projects.
• Cell phone use in school.
• School policy for sports participation.
• Asking advice/opinion for decision making.
• Cell phone use while driving.
• Student extracurricular activities.
• Student community services.
• Driverless cars safety cost and legal issues.
• Emotions/facial expressions recognition.
• Solar planets exploration (Venus, Mars).
• Voting/Election.
• Limiting car usage for cleaner air.
• Experience as seagoing cowboy.

Provided as CSV format.