IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Jan 2001

Characteristic features of research article titles in computer science

L. Anthony

Abstract

Previous researchers have given conflicting views as to what makes a "good" research article (RA) title. In this paper, characteristic features of research article titles, including length, punctuation usage, word frequency, and preposition usage are investigated using a corpus of 600 research articles from the six journals of the IEEE Computer Society. Results show, while some of the intuitive observations made in the literature about title writing are accurate for computer science journals, other observations have ignored the effects of discipline and field variation. Subsequently, these observations are either unjustified or misleading.

Journal
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
Published
2001-01-01
DOI
10.1109/47.946464
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Open Access
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Topics
digital rhetoric grammar and mechanics
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