OUTLINE: Step 5

Creating a Title

STEP 5 
With the CONCLUSION outlined, look to the 'release' sentence--the last sentence of the CONCLUSION paragraph.


Create a unique, catchy title from the feeling and content of this last sentence.  By making your title of the essay link to the last sentence of the essay, you have created a circular feeling for the audience.  

Your title should be clear and specific.  It will NEVER be in the form of a question.

You can review THIS handout for additional direction, or use the links below to go directly to specific content:

Titles: Creative & Captivating

• Creating a Correct Title for Your Writing

• Titles--Overview

• How Important is a Title?

• Useful Titles

• Linking the Conclusion to the Title

• Title No-Nos

The content above was written by J. Dick.  If you are looking for general guidance, the content above is standard writing information.  If you are looking for a specific style assigned by J. Dick for a specific writing assignment, be sure that you understand the argument style assigned as well as the Hamburger Method in conjunction with the content above.

If you have not read the Hamburger Method handout from this site, please take a moment to do so before continuing with this reading.  You can click on any of the sections below for detailed help in that area or work your way through the reading one topic at a time.

1. Outlines
2. Using the Hamburger Method
3. Writing Topic Sentences
4. Analyzing a Topic Sentence
5. Dividing your Argument
6. Developing Unified and Coherent Paragraphs
• Paragraph Development by Detail
• Paragraph Development by Comparison and Contrast
• Paragraph Development by Process
• Paragraph Development by Combination