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TITLES AND AUTHORS (Titles (Types of Titles (Titles that emphasise the…
TITLES AND AUTHORS
Titles
Purpose
Designed to stimulate the readers interest
Characteristics
Should attract and inform the readers and be accurate(reference)
Need to tell the readers what the paper is about
It needs to stand out to compete/get for the reader’s attention
Include in it some of the key words relating to the topic of the paper
Types of Titles
Titles that emphasise the methodology used in the research
Titles that suggest guidelines and/or comparisons
Titles that announce the thesis
Titles that bid for attention by using startling or effective openings
Titles that indicate that the answer to a question will be revealed
Titles that attract by alliteration
Titles that just state the findings
Titles that attract by using literary or biblical allusions
Titles that indicate the controlling question
Titles that attract by using puns
Titles that particularise a specific theme following a general heading
Titles that mystify
Titles that announce the general subject
Things to avoid
Irony, puns, humour, and literary and cultural references
Acronyms – abbreviations accepted as words
Authors
Rules in writing author name
The name of the principal contributor should come first, with subsequent names in order of decreasing contribution
Mere possession of an institutional position on its own
The sequence of names of the authors to an article must reflect the relative scientific or professional contribution of the authors, irrespective of their academic status
A student should be listed as a principal author on any multi-authored article that is substantially based on the student’s dissertation or thesis
Nurmala Hayati
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English Academic Purpose II