To Attract or to Inform: What are Titles for?

James Hartley Keele University

Abstract

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 titles in two areas—sentence structure and reader comprehension—and the article concludes with brief comments on the effectiveness of book titles.

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Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
Published
2005-04-01
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10.2190/nv6e-fn3n-7ngn-twqt
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