Final Blog Entry

Headlines are one of, if not, the most important parts of a story. A headline can either make or break whether a reader will read the story or not. I feel that a clever or witty headline is more effective than one that sacrifices cleverness or "personality." I think the clever headline or the headline with "personality" is what draws the reader in. For example, if a speaker were to come into a classroom and start off with a joke, he is most likely able to gain the students' attention by telling that joke rather than simply just stating his purpose in the classroom.

I think it is possible to combine both the cleverness and the facts into one phrase that will hook the audience. One rule to go by is to try to fit a pun or play on words in the headline, but to also state a who, what, when, where, why, or how component in there as well. That way the audience can have some kind of sense of what the story is about while being drawn into it with the cleverness of the headline.