The title of your paper is the first part of your introduction. Because the title contains the first words that all readers see, as editor Richard Leahy points out, it “often works in concert with the opening paragraph,” and inasmuch as “the purpose of the opening paragraph is to get the reader interested and show where the essay is going, the title usually does the same”(516).Tomakeyourtitleworkmorecloselywithyourintroduction— and by extension, the whole essay—Leahy suggests the following exercise as a way to discover what might become the best title for your paper:
1. Copy out of your draft a sentence that could serve as a title.
2. Write a sentence that's not in the draft to use as a title.
3. Write a title that is a question beginning with What, Who, When or Where.
4. Write a title that is...