Titles
For Research Assignments
Titles
Good titles make favorable first
impressions.
 Don’t underline your title.
 Don’t put your title in quotation marks.
 Do capitalize all but small connecting
words.
 Do skip one line between your title and
the body of your paper.
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Titles
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Should describe the content of the
paper, not the assignment.
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Bad Titles:
– Career Project Evaluation Essay
– First History Paper
– Essay #1
Titles cont.
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Should be professional rather than personal.
Should not be statements of fact. Should not
leave the reader wondering what the essay is
all about.
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Bad titles:
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Why I choose Nursing
I want to be a Biologist
My goal: Rocket Scientist
Why it’s Difficult for me to Decide
Titles cont.
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Should indicate the tone/approach of the
essay.
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Good titles:
– Nursing: A Financially and Spiritually Rewarding
Career
– The Time is Worth it: Taking the High Road to the
Ph.D. in English
– Career Options for Extroverts with Strong Math
Skills
25 Titles
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1. Backseats
2. Praying in the Backseat
3. Now I'm waiting for the end of Time . . .
4. Here comes the Mack Truck!
5. Jesus and Me -- Backseat Buddies
6. Ford Falcons, Chevy Impalas and other things
7. Sin, Sex, and the Saviour
8. Jesus Loves Me?
9. In the Family Way
10. Love, Love Me Do
11. Down the Highway of Life: A View from the Backseat
12. The Things I've Prayed For
13. Holding Death At Bay -- Prayers from the Backseat
14. Death and Sex
15. Surprise, It's the Minister!
16. Ring Around the Rosary
17. Now I Lay Me Down
18. Lay it all Down
19. Blood, Sweat and Tears: a Story from the Backseat
20. The Lord is With Me?
21. Thinking about Religion: Backseat Meditations
22. Love and Death: Backseat Buddies
23. Stories from the Backseat at 6 and 16
24. Deaths: The Big one and the Little one
25. A Rear View Mirror Story
25 more
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1. Sacrifice
2. The Altar of my Love
3. Altered States: Backseats at Six and Sixteen
4. Ruminiations of a Catholic in the Backseat
5. Catholic Girl Grows Up
6. How Cars affected my Religious Faith
7. Backseat Catholic
8. Blood Bearing Fruit
9. Religious Ecstacy
10. Growing up in the Backseat
11. Praying by the Light of the Moon
12. Crucifixes and Crusades: Backseat Chronicles
13. Backseat Yarns: Or, The Tangled Web I Wove
14. I don't want to Die!
15. Damned for All Time!
16. The Rosary and the Radio
17. Now and at the Hour of our Death (of course)
18. Mad Woman in the Backseat
19. Guilty, as Usual/Always: A Backseat Catholic
20. I want to sit up front!
21. What I need is a little sports car without a backseat
22. Death Traps
23. Roll up the Windows and Lock the Doors
24. Bailing out of the Backseat
25. Backseat Blues
Some Reflection . . .
Okay. There are 50 titles. When I look them over, I see
that some of them are awful, corny, unwieldy. Others
are not so bad. I like, for example, "Death Traps" and
"Backseat Blues". I also like "Now I Lay Me Down"
because it's kind of a pun. It plays on the prayer we
prayed as kids and the idea of getting or being laid,
which is important to the second half of my essay.
The tone of these three seems about right for me,
too. Not too serious, not to flippant. I mean, this
essay is funny, but it also has a serious side to it. I
think what these titles would do for my essay is insist
that somewhere in it I do some narrating or
commenting about the situations. Right now, I've just
presented them, laid them out there. Now I need to
write a little bit about what they mean or fill in some
context that will make their impact stronger.
Academic Titles
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Reevaluating and Redefining Empathy: Or, How
Whiteness Studies is Useful in a Multicultural
Literature Course
Rewriting Racism: Whiteness Studies in the
Composition Classroom
Questions as Tools For Two Kinds of Invention:
Imitation and Inspiration
Kenyan Women Building Nation -- Bridging
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Marjorie Oludhe
Macgoye's The Present Moment
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Authoring Nation in Kenya: Ngugi,
Ogola and Macgoye
Un-Becoming White:
Navigating the Swamp:
Fact and Fiction in Rosario Ferré’s The
House on the Lagoon
Creating a Liminal Space for Readers in
Margaret Laurence's The Fire Dwellers:
Carnival at Work in the Middle of
Things
More Academically Speaking
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Un-Becoming White: Identity Transformation in Louise
Erdrich’s The Antelope Wife
Becoming Indian, (Un)Becoming White: A Postcolonial
Reading of Louise Erdrich's The Antelope Wife
Whiteness and Indianness in Louise Erdrich's The
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What White People Can Learn from Louise Erdrich's The
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What Louise Erdrich Teaches White People in The
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Good Indians and Bad Indians: Defining "Indian"
through White Cultural Lenses in Louise Erdrich's The
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Antelope Wife
Antelope Wife
Antelope Wife
Antelope Wife
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Influences of White Culture on the Characters in Lousie
Erdrich's The Antelope Wife
White-Washing the Indian: The Battle with Cultural
Identity in Louise Erdrich's The Antelope Wife
Part 2
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Guilty as Charged: White Cultural Dominance in Louise
Erdrich's The Antelope Wife
Ain't Misbehaving: Cultural Imitation in Louise Erdrich's
The Antelope Wife
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The Good, the Bad and The Ugly: Representations of
Whiteness in Louise Erdrich's the Antelope Wife
Is White always Wrong: Representations of Whiteness
in Louise Erdrich's The Antelope Wife
White and Wrong: Identity Troubles in Louise Erdrich's
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Identifying Stereotypes of Whiteness in Louise Erdrich's
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Interpreting Whiteness: White Stereotyping in Louise
Erdrich's The Antelope Wife
Switching Codes: Seeing Red and White in Louise
Erdrich's The Antelope Wife
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The Antelope Wife
The Antelope Wife