A literature search can also provide you with an abundance of links to journals and books that document how to do what you want in a general way. With due respect to all of this, a request for this forum to give you the "simple and facile" answers (i.e. do your homework assignment for you) is a bit bold.
For normal MgKa XPS you have to take the spectra with low pass energy until you obtain a really good S/R ratio. The resolution will be in the range of .8 eV, which means the valenceband edge will be a convolution of the resolution and the DOS. In addition in most cases you will have contributions of Ti3+ defects in the band gap. To check this take Ti 2p spectra with good resolution and S/R and check for shoulders at the low bindig enegy side. Be shure to take care for the X-ray sattelites stemming from the 2p1/2. As a rough guide fit a straight line into the top of the valence band and look where it intersects with the baseline. You can try to subtract the sattelite spectrum from your X-ray source to obtain a better baseline. Take the spectra well beyond Ef.