1.5.1 Thesis Title
i. Thesis title should be a concise description of the main focus and contribution of the research. It should not contain more than 15 words excluding grammatical words such as articles, conjunction and prepositions.
ii. To avoid redundancy, titles should not contain phrases which reflect research exercise such as “An investigation of …”, “A preliminary study of …”, ” A study of …”, “Analysis of …”, “On the …”, “Theory of …”, “Some …”, and “Toward a …”.
iii. Thesis title should not contain formulas, symbols or subscripts, Greek letters, or other non-alphabetical symbols. Word substitutes should be used instead.
iv. Thesis title should not contain acronyms or even acronyms in brackets unless the term is commonly used in the field of the study (eg: DNA, GPS). For example, “GIS” should be written as “Geographical Information System” and should not be written as “Geographical Information System (GIS)”.
v. Thesis title should not contain punctuations such as colon “.”, semi-colon “,”, etc. except commas “,” when necessary.
(extract from UTM Thesis Guideline)
