Over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. Unfortunately, conference paper titles (CPTs) have only recently begun to receive attention. The aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the text length, syntactic structure, and lexicon of CPTs in Applied Linguistics. A data set of 698 titles was selected from the 2008 ...

Over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. Unfortunately, conference paper titles (CPTs) have only recently begun to receive attention. The aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the text length, syntactic structure, and lexicon of CPTs in Applied Linguistics. A data set of 698 titles was selected from the 2008 ...

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 structures and their rhetorical functions in titles is of great significance. the current study was set to investigate these structures used in research article titles in three disciplines of applied linguistics, den...

some of the criteria for the evaluation and vetting of research articles, are the significance of the study, the need for researching the specified topic, and preparing an appropriate title. academic scholars and research authorities have research useful finding to improve research methods and have set certain standards for selecting topic and preparing appropriate titles for scholarly studies....