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Should you begin Helium articles by repeating the article's title?

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Yes
19% 361 votes Total: 1857 votes
No
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by Marcy Hutchins

Created on: July 16, 2008

If your title is what your article is about and your thesis statement comes from your title than it should be closely worded. Some times you will find yourself repeating your title or thesis statment in order to stay on topic of your article, but other times you just find your self writing it out by accident because of how the article is set up or it's just because of the topic you are writing. If you do repeat the title of your article then put it at the end as part of your end thesis statement. If your article is well developed some times you can be able to open your writing with the title, but don't over do it. Most people who have chosen your article to read will be there for what the article is about taking their interest in the title, and that is why it's there, to grab attention. But in all means it is still up to the writer and how they see and write their articel, if they feel it more powerful to repeat the title then they have that option. I have learned a lot of this in my college english classes when I asked the same questions. When it comes to writing it is helpful to ask such questions, it may help you not only just write the article but to develop it and to arrange the phragraphs. In writing there is really no dumb or pointless question, if you don't know or need an opinion then ask it you may come out to have a better written article. I have read articles by many who are well known or respected in the world of writing that have repeated the title. They had done so in a way to not just get your attention but to make a point of how important that piece was. The information was all there, but it was in the title more so and the rest of the piece was written around it. Not over doing it is the key, don't slam your readers with the title in every paragrah; write it, make your point than move on.

But I would say in the matter of repeating the title in any of your articles, it would have to depend on the writer and the topic. And here I go repeating from the phragraph above, if the writer sees it more powerful to repeat the title in order to grab the reader taking them into what the article is about than they can do so. By the time most of us read a long written piece we soon start to forget what the article is about and why we even started reading it in the first place. In most cases it may not matter if you repeat the title because you just may find yourself doing it any way when actually writing your piece, it may just happen. Still if you are going to repeat it word for word, unless you have a strong topic and developed piece, then it should go at the end of the piece as part of your end thesis statement.

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