This one struck a chord, apparently.
"A colleague in my department thinks that if he uses a colon in the title of an article he is writing then the article will be accepted more readily, and cited more frequently, than if he does not. Where has he got this notion from? A once carefully qualified statement in some research paper has now become a blind article of faith. True enough there is research on the effectiveness of such colonic titles, but it is not that convincing. But rumour and hearsay are powerful things."
— “Titles are the hardest thing: How can we make them more effective?” via the LSE
I’ve been waiting a stupidly long time for the chance to use this joke.
Thanks to @proctor for making it an even 2,000 followers and to the rest of y’all for playing along.
Happy Easter and Passover, fellow scholars.
Posted last night.
![This popped up on my radar this morning courtesy of @jonbecker, an assistant professor of ed leadership at VCU. I appreciate the link more than the endorsement (though I’m certainly glad for the latter), even if it is a little more mean-spirited than what I go for.
Becker tweeted to make the case that we should make our research more accessible, and I think most in the academe would agree (save for Deleuzians, perhaps), though I’d be remiss to point out that if all scholarship was more accessible, transparent, and plainly titled, it would significantly affect my crop of [real] titles to harvest from each conference and journal.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ni8a89Rq1rsxqweo1_500.png)
This popped up on my radar this morning courtesy of @jonbecker, an assistant professor of ed leadership at VCU. I appreciate the link more than the endorsement (though I’m certainly glad for the latter), even if it is a little more mean-spirited than what I go for.
Becker tweeted to make the case that we should make our research more accessible, and I think most in the academe would agree (save for Deleuzians, perhaps), though I’d be remiss to point out that if all scholarship was more accessible, transparent, and plainly titled, it would significantly affect my crop of [real] titles to harvest from each conference and journal.
