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Creating Effective Titles

Creating Effective Titles. Effective Title Guidelines. Follow the principle of old before new information. An “old” word of phrase that hooks into a reader’s interest. And something “new” that forecasts the writer’s thesis or purpose. Know your audience.

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Creating Effective Titles

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  1. Creating Effective Titles

  2. Effective Title Guidelines Follow the principle of old before new information An “old” word of phrase that hooks into a reader’s interest. And something “new” that forecasts the writer’s thesis or purpose. Know your audience Detailed but brief overview of what your paper is about

  3. “Old” and “New” Information “Style as Politics: A Feminist Approach to the Teaching of Writing” “OLD” Attracts readers interested either in style or in feminist issues in writing “NEW” Promises to analyze the political implications of style

  4. Title Strategies

  5. Two Part Titles Left = key words from essay’s issues or problem or a “mystery phrase” that arouses interest. Right = the essay’s question, thesis, or summary of purpose Ex’s: Money and Growth: An Alternative Approach Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight Fine Cloth, Cut Carefully: Cooperative Learning in British Colombia.

  6. Magazine Titles that use the same strategies:

  7. Lastly......... Writing a title for your essay can help you find focus when you get stuck in the middle of a draft. Your title forces you to nutshell your ideas by seeing the bigger picture of your essay. Causes you to reconsider your purpose and to think about what’s old and what’s new for your audience.

  8. Class Activity The young soldier clambered from the back of the jeep and stretched in the hot sun before gathering together his kitbag, pack and rifle. It was still early, but the day promised to burn. The jeep driver kept his engine running, and he raised his hand silently. They had not spoken during the journey, and the driver still had some way to travel. The driver revved his engine as though in reply, and then he was gone, spinning his vehicle out in a cloud along the dusty road across the flat green grasslands towards the hills. For a moment the soldier stood and wrinkled his eyes in the sun, taking his bearings. His pale green beret and uniform marked him as belonging to the winning army - the losers' uniforms had been a pale khaki, and their berets all blue. Not that many enemy troops still wore berets. Many had been killed in the closing battles of the civil war, whilst the rest were all prisoners, or fugitives, melted away into the heat and the dust, seeking to evade roaming patrols in some forlorn hope of making their way home.

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