Comments on: #FridayFact: Informative Headings Help Readers

By: Zachary Maners

Zachary Maners — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:46:47 +0000

I agree the article is helpful in distinguishing what each heading describes. I never thought about different formats of headings and what each one could entail. I think the article is a little ambiguous in describing when to use a specific heading and when not to, but as long as you can combine elements from all the different headings defined in the article, then it should be fine.

By: Abigail+Wasson

Abigail+Wasson — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 19:10:38 +0000

Having appropriate headings in a paper can make or break your essay. Accurately labeling the sections in a paper can make it much more feasible for someone to locate information he/she is looking for. This article does a good job describing the types of headings. While generic headings are important to highlight the sections in an essay, descriptive headings allow the reader to learn what type of information is in the essay without reading the whole thing.

By: Clement+Boateng

Clement+Boateng — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 02:29:45 +0000

I do agree with Mackenzie on the opinion that one has to know what type of writing in order to use a heading type. The informative type of heading is better and more engaging. However, it does not have to be used everywhere. Some writings would require the use of topic headings because that is the acceptable one. for instance, when writing proposals in a technical report form, using informative headings will make it unacceptable.

By: Yibo+Xu

Yibo+Xu — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 22:06:55 +0000

Informative headings are very helpful for readers to read and have a brief idea about the proposal. This article is very helpful, it gives me three accurate heading formats which is very easy and good to use. Readers probably would not read through the whole long writing if the heading is not clear. This article gives me good formats. But just like the previous comment says, I think I might need more information about when is the best point to use each heading. A proper heading could give more effective reading.

By: Faizal+Zulkifli

Faizal+Zulkifli — Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:12:00 +0000

I actually agree with you on this one because I thought there would be more detailed explanation on how each of the different headings can be implemented in various types of writing. From my opinion, the most suitable one to be used for the proposals would the descriptive headings because I think it is enough for the reader to understand a little bit of the topic without giving too much away.

By: Cassie+Bienert

Cassie+Bienert — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 23:04:33 +0000

In another class we just received feedback about a recent project where we had to give a presentation. One of the points was that our headings should be more informative so that we get an idea of what the rest of the words are saying. He said instead of “Results” put a little blurb about what the results are explain such as “Results of the __ test” or “The correlation between __ and __”. Its definitely easier for the reader to find what they are looking for more quickly. I think this is more applicable for headers that aren’t standard for every proposal. Like Mariel and Mackenzie said, there is a balance to specificity. Most proposals will have an introduction and what’s included in that is pretty standard, so I don’t think its necessary to be too specific. However, if you want to highlight something or emphasize it in your report, a header is a nice way to show the audience that this topic is significant. I think a good compromise might be a header and then subheaders.

By: Moqi+Zhang

Moqi+Zhang — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:20:04 +0000

This article is really helpful to me. It explains different type of heading, and use the keyword to catch my focus. I thought heading is not really important before I read this article. However, I think if there is more example of heading will be better and easier to understand.

By: Kelvin Prempeh

Kelvin Prempeh — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:06:36 +0000

Though I always use headings I never knew there were different types. This post however, explains the two different types very well and in what scenarios they work best. I’d have to agree with Josh Detwiler that its more useful when you have a long list of chapters, sections, and subsections. The examples used to explain the types of headings also worked perfectly to help understand.

By: Yoonjin+Kim

Yoonjin+Kim — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 03:37:06 +0000

I have not thought about headings until this post. After reading the examples, I can see why headings have important rules in professional writing environment. I only have been using generic basic ones as a type of heading without descriptive headings providing general idea about topics. For generic category headings, which is the most familiar format for me, it would fit the best for most of the topics in general but not descriptive enough for professional writing such as research published papers or keynote proposal. Descriptive and informative headings are useful in certain situations, but I think generic category headings are sufficient for some of the topics and situations.

By: Zachary Cohen

Zachary Cohen — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:53:31 +0000

I really connected with what the resource said about having informative headings. I had never really thought about it before, but headings can be pretty useless if they are not descriptive. For example, there’s not much point of adding an “introduction” heading unless you make it descriptive; it’s pretty obvious that the first section is the introduction, but what we really want to know is what is being introduced. By adding these descriptive headings with proper text hierarchy the document becomes much more informative and much easier to navigate.