Title

The title of your report should be concise and informative. It should not be vague and general but should encapsulate the essence of the research.

For example:

Haemolysis of red blood cells in response to salt concentration

The limits of selective attention in tachistospcoic recognition

Social and economic consequences of homelessness for women in Sydney, Australia (1998-2001)

The progress of arthritis in the retained compartments after medial unicompartmental knee replacement

Memory for explicit and implicit information in picture stories

Antibiotic resistance of various Escherichia coli strains

A title like the one below is inappropriate because it is uninformative about the research contained in the report:

An investigation of a physical stimuli

A title like the one below is slightly more informative

An investigation of memory for sentences

but could be improved by increasing the specificity of the information it contains; for example,

Sentence memory: A constructive versus interpretive approach

Your title should be no longer than 15 words (O'Shea, 1996). The title is generally given on a separate page together with your name, course and instructor details.