Title

The сurrent tsunami of journal publications requires researchers to invent informative and easy-to-understand titles if they want their work to be read and cited by their colleagues. This approach to titles is increasingly important if authors want to attract lay readers, who might lack an understanding of acronyms or field-specific terminology. Clearly formulated article titles in plain language may well enhance readability and subsequent shareability, bridging the gap between academic and general audiences.

To make evidence-based knowledge more available for disseminating, it is suggested to use declarative or informative titles that present the main findings or results of the research. As they are more direct, they make research to be more possible shared in social media.

Examples

Come rain or come shine, the species richness will decline in the Moroccan mountains

Graphene combines computer logic and memory in a single device

Meta’s AI translation model embraces overlooked languages

Father’s diet influences son’s metabolic health through sperm RNA

If you do decide to use a declarative title and it is not prohibited by the journal, bear the following in mind:
✔️ Effective titles are typically 10–15 words long
✔️ Use a subject-verb structure in your title
✔️ Be very careful about overstating findings

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Warmly,
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Dr John Morley, an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, has created the Academic Phrasebank, which is very popular with academics, researchers, and students across the world. Here, you can find some phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of writing that are organised according to the main sections of a research paper or a dissertation.

We suggest a more resonant approach to the phrasebank. Take a sceenshot and use ❤️

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FANBOYS is a handy acronym for remembering the seven most common coordinating conjunctions: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so. When these conjunctions join two independent clauses, they require placing the comma in front of them. Placing one of FANBOYS between two independent clauses without a comma as well as joining independent clauses with a comma alone results in a comma splice error.

Example:

👍 Detecting spontaneous oscillations does not rely on any advanced detection and tracking algorithms, and our spectral analysis should provide a readily applicable tool to anticipate the uncontrolled and self-sustained motions in dense crowds.

❌ Detecting spontaneous oscillations does not rely on any advanced detection and tracking algorithms and our spectral analysis should provide a readily applicable tool to anticipate the uncontrolled and self-sustained motions in dense crowds.

❌ Detecting spontaneous oscillations does not rely on any advanced detection and tracking algorithms, our spectral analysis should provide a readily applicable tool to anticipate the uncontrolled and self-sustained motions in dense crowds.