This video explains how to use headings and subheadings to alert the reader of important points and their subtopics.
Source: Diana Hacker, Melissa Stephenson
This video explains how to properly format headings and subheadings in a document.
Source: Diana Hacker, Melissa Stephenson
Appropriate Language for Headings and Subheadings
Appropriate language
-ing phrases
Phrases beginning with gerunds to indicate action so they are appropriate headings for documents that focus on solving problems
Maintaining parental control
Decreasing the national budget
Increasing your savings
Noun phrases
Phrases that are usually concise and work well in professional and academic contexts and are appropriate for documents that survey a variety of persons, places, or things.
International results
Bypass method
Sales projections
Questions
Questions can generate interest in a document by drawing the reader’s personal interest into the document. Question headings are useful in research essays.
How do I earn more interest?
How can I lose ten pounds?
What exemptions can I claim on my taxes?
Imperative phrases
Phrases whose purpose is to give advice to readers; usually begins with a verb because the subject is an understood You
Drink eight glasses of water
Exercise at least twenty minutes
Eat five servings of fruit and vegetables
Source: diana hacker