summarize main ideahave concised statement of main topicidentify primary variables and the relationship between themidentify theoretical issues under investigation and the relationship between them (also include theory name)indentify population(s) used in researchare free of jargon and abbreviationsdo not include the words "method and results" (put them in the abstract)do not have redundancies such as "study of" or "an experimental investigation of" at the beginning of a titleavoid using a "yes-no" question as a titleonly include words that provide important information about the research in both the main title and subtitle are used, both should provide important information about the research
