Title

A title that clearly and succinctly conveys the project’s goals suggests that the authors know what they are doing. An excellent title also includes the project’s “hook,” the theory, method, content, or other innovation that makes this proposal stand out from many other similar ones. When the grant committee is sitting around the table discussing applications, proposal authors never want them to ask, “which proposal was that again?"

A title such as The Sacred Sites of Asia: A Geo-referenced Multimedia Instructional Resource certainly achieve this goal. No one asks: “which Asian, geo-referenced, multimedia resource do you mean?” But titles need not sound technical to get the job done. "Pedagogy for Non-Traditional Theological Education in Historically Black Seminaries" works too. Readers know from the title what this project intends to do, even if they do not yet know how it will be accomplished.

On the other hand, titles such as Theological Education: A New Model are less helpful. Nothing here suggests the problem requiring a solution, the audience being addressed, or the strategy being employed. If there is some unique and interesting element in the proposed “new model,” it makes sense to put that item-the proposal’s “hook” -in the title itself.

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