Does a research paper's title page have to be in statement or question form?

Answer 1

mine's usually a fragment/phrase...

think statement is better than question form...

Answer 2

Many papers seem to have compound nouns for titles, e.g., "Distribution of N-values Across Dynamically Scoped Pooter Whistles". After all, whatever conclusion you make is not likely to be even this terse. You'd probably want to avoid anything like "All Foos are Bars". Right or wrong, the tendency is to qualify your conclusions; somewhere in the body of your paper, you might write "We have shown that in our study, every Foo examined appeared also to be a Bar."

I would avoid asking a question in your paper's title. "Do Widgets Wump?" makes it look as though you still don't know -- so why are you publishing?

When you get past the title and write your paper's abstract, you definitely want to confine yourself to a paragraph of short, declarative statements.

Answer 3

it has to be a statement about the main idea

Answer 4

depends on your teacher