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The names of English academic authors normally consist of the first (given) and last (family) names, the given name always being placed before the last name (but, certainly, not in bibliographies), for example, "Richard Winkler." Sometimes a middle initial is added, e.g. "Dwight K. Stevenson." Academic names are considered to be formal, although shortened versions of the first names may sometimes be met, e.g. "Bob Jordan" (instead of "Robert Jordan") or "Liz Hamp-Lyons" (instead of "Elizabeth Hamp-Lyons"). Such a naming practice may not be acceptable for Ukrainian academics accustomed to a more formal style of self-presentation. On the other hand, the Slavic tradition of using patronymics is not generally known to English and international audiences. Ukrainian authors writing in English may be advised, therefore, to use their full first and family names with the observation of appropriate rules of transliteration.
Titles
Titles are important components of academic and research writing, "responsible" for gaining readers' attention and facilitating positive perceptions of any kind of written research.
Titles may have quite different syntactic structures. The main structural types of English titles are as follows:
1. Nominative constructions, that is titles with one or more nouns as principal elements. E.g.:
Non-verbal Communication and Language Teaching
A Script of Today's Russian Feminist Biography
2. "Colon"-titles consisting of two parts separated by a colon. E.g.:
Gossip and Insecure Workplace: Look before You Speak
Academic Writing for Graduate Students: What Do They Really Need?
3. Verbal constructions, that is titles containing a non-finite form of a verb as a principal element. E.g.:
Analyzing and Teaching Research Genres
4. Titles in the form of complete sentences. E.g.:
Language is not a Physical Object
Proxemics is Relevant in Foreign Language Teaching
There are also some other types of titles, which are, however, less widespread in English academic discourse (than, for example, in Ukrainian and Russian ones):
1. Titles beginning with the prepositions on, to, toward(s):
Toward a Sociocultural Theory of Teacher Learning about Student Diversity
On the Reproductive Behavior of the Seal in Atlantic Canada
2. Nominative titles with the conjunction as:
Writing as Language
Political Speech as Discourse
Sometimes, articles in the titles may be omitted, e.g.:
Clinical Aspects of Modeling Cancer Growth
Titles of books, plays, movies, music should be capitalized. But do not capitalize articles, conjunctions, or prepositions unless they are the first word of the title, e.g.:
How English Works (a book)
The New Yorker (a magazine)
The Marriage of Figaro (an opera)
My Fair Lady (a movie)
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