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A small practice for the competing headings

A practical exercise: Compare what each title promises to the intended reader.

Original practice · Optional exercise · Useful disagreement

Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.

  1. Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: Two editors prefer different titles for the same article.
  2. Compare what each title promises to the intended reader.
  3. Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
  4. Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.

Try a question

What is the smallest visible change that would make this situation easier to understand?