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What key skills are needed when writing a Title? Browsers on the Internet looking for a paper may read hundreds of titles before they select an Abstract to read. According to one of Britain’s top editors, writing good headlines represents about 50% of the skills vital to article writing. For this reason the gurus of research writing tend to dedicate more pages to discussing the importance of the title than they do to any section in the paper itself.
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Wallwork, A. (2011). Titles. In: English for Writing Research Papers. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7922-3_11
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