Length:  About 15 minutes, including a minute or two for questions

Purpose:

 

Rules for titles:

Titles should suggest the essay’s point/thesis

Titles should catch readers’ attention

Titles should suggest the essay’s attitude or mood

Titles should be creative

Some ideas for creating titles:

One-word titles:  Gardening 

Two-word  and Three– Word titles: Gardening Success;              The (In)competent Gardener

 “And Me” titles: Gardening and Me

Thesis: No Pain, No Gain in the Garden

 Question word title: What Gardening Has Taught Me about Success; The Quest for the Perfect Tomato

Question title:  Why Garden?  How Do Gardeners Know When They’ve Succeeded?

 “ing” title:  Harvesting Joy; Spending Money and Having Fun in the Garden; Eating—and Living—Better

Playing with a well-known title, proverb, or line from a movie, poem, song, etc:  I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine; Three for the Blackbird; Two for the Crow; Only 4,000 Hours to Go

Alliteration: Grateful Gardenin

Two Part Title:

Recipe for Gardening:

Two Parts Failure, One Part Joy