This study aims to investigate different types and trends of information provided by research
titles published in the applied linguistics journals from 1975 to 2015. To this end, 428 …

Deducing what a paper is about, titles are considered as the most important determinant of
how many people will read the article. Therefore, studying the use of different syntactic …

Previous studies seldom investigated the evolution of research article titles in pragmatics.
Based on qualitative and quantitative analysis of 650 research article titles, this study depicts …

In this study we analyse a corpus of 300 randomly selected research paper titles written in
English and published between 1998 and 2012 in the most prestigious journals in the field …

The title of the journal article as a genre has been extensively investigated for variations
across disciplines (eg, titles in sciences vs. social sciences or in linguistics vs. medicine) …

Titles play a key role in doctoral dissertations and research articles. However, the generic
and disciplinary features of doctoral dissertation titles have received limited attention. In this …

Titles play an important role in genre analysis. Cross-genre studies show that research
paper and thesis titles have distinctive features. However, thesis and dissertation titles in the …

The study investigated whether there was any significant generic difference between the
Research Questions (RQs) and Method sections of applied linguistics research articles …

Over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of
academic publications. Unfortunately, conference paper titles (CPTs) have only recently …

The aim of the present study was to find out whether language learners' self-efficacy beliefs
affect the reading comprehension achievement of EFL learners in Iran. A convenience …