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 The Basic Structure: Title
 
     

Title

A title is the fist part of an essay and care should be taken in coming up with a good one. Creating an appropriate descriptive or informative title for an essay is often not such an easy task. At times you may find it difficult to formulate a good title on starting an essay. Do not worry much because you can come back to it after you have finished writing all other parts of the essay. At that time, having worked through your essay and revising it several times you will definitely find it easy to now formulate an appropriate one. Be careful in formulating titles, because they are not just topic statements, but should reflect the content of the essay. For example a good title should be:

  1. short
  2. informative (tell the reader what the essay is about)
  3. reflective of the writer's attitude towards the topic

Example: Look at the following titles :

A good title: * "How to Pass your Examinations".

The student who wrote this essay gave tips on examination techniques and how to prepare for examinations(study tips).

This title is not only clear and concise, but it also reflects the writer's attitude in that the essay puts forth his ideas about careful examination preparation. Remember that the appropriacy of the title should be reflected in the content of the essay.

A bad title* " A Breath-taking Scene at the Corner of my Street in Broadhurst"

The student who tackled this essay went on to describe a very horrific scene, a car accident in which a mother and child were trapped. Now the title is not only irrelevant but also very long. This scene was not breath taking, obviously the student did not know the meaning of "breath-taking". Never attempt to guess the meaning of a word in an examination or use one when you are not sure what it means. The whole theme gets lost. It would be quite good to have a title that reflects the wording of the question you are responding to, but not necessarily echoing the exact words.

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