RESEARCH TITLE

A research title prefaces the study by providing a summary of the main idea and is usually short
and concise. Writing it may seem to be a simple task but it actually requires more consideration
on the part of the researcher. While he or she may have written the contents of the study in
great detail, researchers may find it hard to create a research title for their study that is concise
and represents all the relevant elements of the study at the same time.
A research title should have the following characteristics:
1. It should summarize the main idea of the paper.
2. It should be a concise statement of the main topic.
3. It should include the major variables of the research stud.
4. It should be self-explanatory
5. It should describe or imply the participants of the study.
In general, the researcher should avoid using words that serve no useful purpose and can mislead
indexes. Words such as “methods”, “results”, and “investigations” should not appear in the title. In
many cases, the general problem of the research even the specific question that the researcher intends
to answer, when rewritten in a statement form, can serve as a title.