Sectioning, Titles, and Headings

When I coach students writing long technical reports for a senior design project or business plan course, I find that there is a tendency to write overly long sections that are not broken up into subsections. This is a mistake because it makes it harder for busy business-technical readers to skim the text and find what they need. A key element of good business writing is to break up documents into reasonably sized pieces with appropriately chosen headings or titles. 

The art of choosing titles for a document or headings for a subsection may be best understood if we recognize two key dimensions or characteristics of titles or headings  

Two elements are needed at the end of a piece of writing, and they are usually covered under a pair of headings  

There is a good bit of confusion between the two, and here we examine each 

A summary is concisely summarized in the advice offered to Army officers 

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Create an outline using section titles and heads. 

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