Interesting stuff.
I find a lot of titles in scientific journals utterly soul-destroying in their literalism: too many take the form "X is Y". That's not a title. That's a conclusion.
Thankfully, you do find the occasional title that's more creative; more thankfully, titles (and whole papers) in the humanities - and I spend more time reading humanities papers than scientific ones - are much less likely to be literalistic. Some are even quite jokey: there's nothing so heartwarming as a paper whose title is a good, or terrible, pun...
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:56,
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a lot of medical articles and the recent trend is for punny titles - at least in the less scholarly journals.
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 11:01,
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