Titles and Abstracts in Academic Discourse

Titles and Abstracts in Academic Discourse

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This study examines the language of titles and abstracts in writing theses.The focus of this paper is two-fold; first, to investigate the rhetorical structure or styles of writing here abstracts, and second, to determine features of a good title.The results of the paper indicate that writers of theses should inculcate the skills of writing abstracts.

Employing the suggested techniques or strategies would be a step in ensuring good production of abstracts.The analysis of the papers also shows that the generality or specificity of a here title correlates with the number of lexical units in the title.That is, as the number of the lexical units increase the title becomes more specific.