Colons play a hidden but important role in the planning and writing of effective titles for
academic articles. This paper presents three studies of current practices in using colons and …

This research focuses on the structural construction of scientific titles in English and Spanish
in research papers (RP) and review papers (RVP) in the biological and social sciences. The …

Title of an article can be descriptive, declarative or a question. It plays important role in both
marketing and findability of article. We investigate the impact of the type of article titles on the …

Introducing English for Academic Purposes is an accessible and engaging textbook which
presents a wide-ranging introduction to the field, covering the global and institutional …

To prevent a paper from being discarded and ensure that it addresses the right audience, it
must have a proper title that satisfies certain requirements. Writing the titles to scientific …

Much has been written about titles in scientific journal articles but little research has been
carried out. We aimed to assess in two studies how factors like the length of a title and its …

Titles are a key part of every academic genre and are particularly important in research
papers. Today, online searches are overwhelmingly based on articles rather than journals …

Despite the rich literature on disciplinary knowledge construction and multilingual scholars'
academic literacy practices, little is known about how novice scholars are engaged in …

This article critiques some titles in journal articles for being misleading and it argues that
titles need to be informative. Examples are given of work on measuring the effectiveness of …

Readers now scan keyword-generated search results from online databases to select
articles rather than browse tables of contents, increasing the importance of titles in isolation …