Titles are a key part of every academic genre and particularly important in research papers. Today, online searches overwhelmingly based on articles rather than journals which means that writers must, more ever, make their titles both informative appealing to attract readers who may go read, cite use research. In this paper we explore the features 5070 leading six disciplines human physical sci...

A research article (RA) title is the first and foremost feature that attracts the reader's attention, the feature from which she/he may decide whether the whole article is worth reading. The present study attempted to investigate syntactic structures and rhetorical functions of RA titles written in English and Persian and published in journals in three disciplines of Electrical Engineering, Psy...