A Guide for Dissertation Title Help

Completed your dissertation but struggling to find an appropriate title for your work? Wondering if your already composed title will fit in properly with the dissertation topic of your choice? Not sure if your title is interesting enough to grab the attention of the dissertation assessment committee? Here is an interesting article on dissertation title help.

Writing dissertation title can turn out to be the most daunting task for any student. The dissertation title is the most important part of your writing. This is your first opportunity to let the assessor know what your dissertation is all about. In few simple words, the title must strive to highlight the purpose of the detailed study. The title of your dissertation may or may not include the context of the dissertation, the final outcome or any other important aspects of the research.

However, a title constructed without much care or research can show your dissertation in bad light. It can also mislead the reader into thinking the study is about something far removed from reality, confusing them from the very beginning.  However to help you out there are many websites that provide dissertation title help online. In this article we will discuss in details words to capitalize on and highlight in the title and many other such relevant points to make your dissertation title attractive.

There are a number of broad rules to think about when constructing your title. Titles should be 

(a) Descriptive and Self-explanatory, 

(b) Precise and to the point, and 

(c) Consistent with the body. 

In addition, titles should avoid using 

(a) abbreviations, acronyms and initials, or 

(b) a titillating or teasing style. 

Now let us discuss the above points in details:

General titles should be avoided. Each word of your dissertation title must be meaningful. It must guide the readers to understand the area you want to focus in the body of the dissertation. 

Being precise does not simply mean that a dissertation title should be short. It means that it should be concise and crisp. 

A title can be descriptive, self-explanatory, and even precise, but fail because it fails to be consistent with the body. Simply check that each word of your title reflects the subject matter of your dissertation. Being consistent with the language in the title gives your dissertation a good start.

Leave the use of any abbreviations, acronyms and/or initials to the main body of the dissertation as this could lead to confusion, and can be interpreted differently by different people. In the main body of the dissertation, you will get ample scope to clarify the abbreviations, acronyms or initials.

A teasing or cute style of title can certainly sparks interest but should be strictly avoided as it does not go with the formal tone of the dissertation. 

The title for your dissertation can either be descriptive (e.g. ‘Effectiveness of policies on Informal police warnings to combat drug abuse among teenagers’) or can also be phrased in the form of a question (How effective are the informal policies of warnings police forces follow to combat teenage drug offences?). 

You should follow the second pattern only if you are very certain of your approach. Try to avoid simplistic questions, like ‘How do informal drug policies work?’, or ‘Why are teenagers taking drugs?’ These questions are too broad natured to be of any use for your title. Moreover they do not give us enough information about the subject matter.

You can finalize the title for your dissertation by discussing with your supervisor. You can also take help from someone with particular interests in informal policing policies or teenage drug offences.

The first thing you should keep in mind while composing your dissertation title is that the person reading your dissertation should be able to understand the main concept and focus of your research just by glancing through your dissertation title. More than often dissertation titles are composed of a number of components each of which informs the reader something about the student’s research.