Title is the face of your essays and dissertations especially for research essays as it conveys about your finding and what is new about your research. It tells your audience almost everything about you or at least it’s the first impression. How your face is to your audience, so is the title of your essay to its readers. Title for your essay and dissertation should be simple but catchy, short but meaningful and above all it should represent your topic and generate the curiosity to read through. You should also consider the fact that a bad title can lose the interest of your readers to continue hence your marks.

How important is selecting good titles for your essays and dissertations? An essay or dissertation paper is not just a piece write-up for your academic performance, but it opens up scope for new research in the future. A thoughtfully written title can be an indication of how well you have researched your essay or dissertation to your lecturer.

Here are few things you need to consider when selecting titles for your research essays and dissertations. When start writing your research paper, you should not worry much about the title, but should have one. The title you choose, while you work on your essay can be called as a working title and it should help you connect points together and should give you the flexibility to change it later. The working title act as a reminder to keep you focused. On the other hand the finished title is the one that you actually choose as the title for your essay. Once you complete your essay you are much more familiar about your essay and it’s the perfect time to go for a final title. The finished title can be written considering all the possibilities to develop a catchy and attractive title. This is where you need to use the techniques to write an attention grabbing title.

Here are some tips on how to write a catchy, yet meaningful title for your essays and dissertations.

You should keep in mind that a good a title is an introduction to your introduction and convey the spirit of your research essay. You need to consider few things around you before start searching for the right title for your essay. Check how the titles of your favorite books are written, how they relate to the story of the book or why are they named so. Always think in terms of what words are famous related to your topic, think of a popular saying, irony, metaphors and names of places and people, how one of these make your topic attractive without losing the meaning.

You must read your essay repeatedly looking catchy sentences or words and always think about your audience when writing a title. You should consider what your audience would prefer to see as a title for your dissertations, would they prefer a serious or a humorous title. Include what they would like to hear the most about your topic in your title. You should also be careful not to be offensive or obscure about your title and the title can be as less as four words and not more than six words. You should try to use simple language if your essay is not about very complex scientific subjects for research.