What are some tips on creating a title for an essay?

For an essay, the title should be factual. Here are some ideas:

• Look at your list of facts that you used to write the essay, and see if any of them stand out as a good title
• Read back over your introduction and conclusion and see if anything there stands out as a good title
• Look up your topic on a search engine and see what sorts of titles other people have used for that topic - don't copy them, but use them to give you ideas for your own title
• If nothing else comes to you, just use a factual statement like "Why Animals Have Backbones" or "How To Multiply Two Numbers"