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This title explicitly states the essay’s subject and offers a positive connotation about the subject to the reader. While it may not address the topic explicitly, it does provide a subject and a direction that the essay will develop. | This title explicitly states the essay’s subject and offers a positive connotation about the subject to the reader. While it may not address the topic explicitly, it does provide a subject and a direction that the essay will develop. | ||
Every noun and verb should be capitalized in your title. Do not enclose your title in quotation marks | Every noun and verb should be capitalized in your title. Do not italicize, underline or enclose your title in quotation marks. | ||
Title of the following should be either underlined or italicized: | Title of the following should be either underlined or italicized: | ||
• books | |||
• magazines | |||
• newspapers | |||
• pamphlets | |||
• long poems | |||
• plays | |||
• films | |||
• television programs | |||
• radio programs | |||
• musical compositions | |||
• choreographic works | |||
• works of visual arts | |||
• comic strips | |||
• software | |||
• web Sites (Hacker 323) | |||
Quotation marks are used around the following titles of short works: | Quotation marks are used around the following titles of short works: | ||
newspaper and magazine articles | |||
• newspaper and magazine articles | |||
• short poems | |||
• short stories | |||
• songs | |||
• episodes of television and radio programs | |||
• subdivisions of books and web sites (Hacker 302) | |||
A strong titles should also be used to grab the reader's attention as well as asserting the author's opinion. As a person is looking over a blog or article, the title is what will draw the reader to the article otherwise the reader will simple skip to the next passage if the reader is not entice by the title. Descriptive word that give clear, crisp images will make a strong title and also help lure readers. | A strong titles should also be used to grab the reader's attention as well as asserting the author's opinion. As a person is looking over a blog or article, the title is what will draw the reader to the article otherwise the reader will simple skip to the next passage if the reader is not entice by the title. Descriptive word that give clear, crisp images will make a strong title and also help lure readers. | ||
=='''Work Cited'''== | |||
Hacker, Diana . [[Rules for Writers.]] 5th ed. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004. 302, 323. | |||
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