[Taxacom] Ornamental flourishes

[Michael A. Ivie]

I did one "How We Love Our Specimens: Notes on Curatorial Dedication,
Synonymy and Biology in the Platydascillinae (Coleoptera: Byturidae)."
received very positive feedback.

Mike

> Lena to my knowledge has to date worked with very sober titles, so I shall
> be interested in this new departure. :)
>
> There is a bit of investigation on this topic for pyschology papers
> [http://jis.sagepub.com/content/34/5/680], and it was found that "articles
> with highly amusing titles (2 standard deviations above average) received
> fewer citations".  Bad news for punsters.
>
>
> Geoff
>
>
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 2:21 pm, Elena Kupriyanova wrote:
>> Geoff,
>>
>> Why not? We (mostly) have fun doing our research, why don't we reflect
>> in
>> in our paper's title
>> (A confession - I am guilty as charged because I currently work on two
>> manuscripts with embellished titles)
>> Lena
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Geoff Read
>> Sent: Tuesday, 22 May 2012 12:00 PM
>> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
>> Subject: [Taxacom] Ornamental flourishes
>>
>> Do taxacomers approve of paper titles which preface the nitty-gritty of
>> the descriptive part with an adaption of a cliche phrase such as those
>> below?
>
>
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