Titles for academic papers
January 24, 2011
Jeff Ely, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Economics at Northwestern, offers interesting advice--it would be nice to test it using important papers--on titling academic papers.
One piece of his advice is widely, and I would guess increasingly, flouted: he advises that the "worst thing you can do with your title is to insert a colon into it". Why do I guess "increasingly"? Because when I download papers as .pdf files, more and more, I encounter Window's refusal to include colons in file titles.
Link via The Browser ("Writng Worth Reading"). If you haven't seen it, you might want to take a look.