Titles in research articles

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 sciences identify typical structural patterns content foci. addition proposing model title patterns, show there major disciplinary differences can be traced different characteristics fields topics themselves. Our findings have implications for EAP ERPP teachers working with early career writers.