上海交通大学：《学术英语写作与演讲 Academic Writing and Presentation in English》教学资源（课件讲稿）04 title（Good titles clearly identify the field of the research）

Titles Good titles clearly identify the field of the research Title:Bird use of rice field strips of varying width in the Kanto Plain of central Japan What information can your get from the title? What is the possible research question? 1.The focus is on birds in relation to rice fields. 2.The research took place in central Japan. 3.The width of rice field strips was varied in the study. Question:How is the width of strips correlated with the number and species of birds using them?

Titles Good titles clearly identify the field of the research Title : of of in the Kanto Plain of What information can your get from the title? What is the possible research question? Question: Bird use rice field strips varying width central Japan

③ Titles Possible questions 1.Why was the width of the strips an important variable? 2.Did the width of the rice field strips affect which birds used it? 3.If so,which field strip width was used most by which birds?

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熟 Titles Tasks Find information and ask questions about the following two titles 1.Large-Scale Psychological Differences Within China Explained by Rice Versus Wheat 2.Origins and Functional Evolution of Y Chromosomes Across Mammals

Titles Tasks : Find information and ask questions about the following two titles

熟 Titles Now,repeat Task for the title of your selected article. 1.Title: 2.Information: 3.Questions:

Titles Now, repeat Task for the title of your selected article

③ Titles Use noun phrase,statement or question Traditional way:noun phrase Food expenditure patterns in urban and rural Indonesia Systems of weed control in peanuts Iron uptake by symbiosomes from soybean root nodules

Titles Use noun phrase, statement or question

熟 Titles Use noun phrase,statement or question A statement can give more explicit information about the result of the study Task:Change the noun-phrase title into a statement Effects of added calcium on salinity tolerance of tomato Calcumaddition improves salinitytoerance of tomato

Titles Use noun phrase, statement or question Task: Change the noun-phrase title into a statement

⑧ Titles When there is no simple answer,it can be effective to write title as a question. Can Automated Writing Evaluation Programs Help Students Improve Their English Writing? Which Insect Introductions Succeed and Which Fail?

Titles Can Automated Writing Evaluation Programs Help Students Improve Their English Writing? Which Insect Introductions Succeed and Which Fail?

⑧ Titles Use a verb phrase to replace the noun phrase Example The Effect of Muscular Contraction in Achatina Fulcia Snails Inducing Muscular Contraction in Achatina Fulcia Snails

Titles Use a verb phrase to replace the noun phrase Example

③ Titles Use key words:Online Role-Play,Teacher experiencing,Collaborative Argument Example A Study on the Use of Online Role-Play Understanding the Use of Online Role-Play for Teaching Collaborative Argument

Titles Use key words: Online Role-Play, Teacher experiencing, Collaborative Argument Example

熟 Titles Demonstrate the logical relationship within each noun phrase in the title Example Selection Bias and the Heterosexual HIV-1 Transmission Bottleneck Selection Bias at the Heterosexual HIV-1 Transmission Bottleneck

Titles Demonstrate the logical relationship within each noun phrase in the title Example