Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Humanities & Communication
Document Type
Website
Publication/Presentation Date
3-24-2019
Abstract/Description
By the time you finish reading this first sentence, you’ve already started forming a first impression about this article. In fact, you really started forming it after reading the title. With the words, “How to Win Papers and Influence Professors,” a spoof on the popular Dale Carnegie book, “How to Win Friends & Influence People,” I already began establishing a tone and setting up expectations for you, the reader. Whether you realized it or not, you had a reaction to that title. This shouldn’t come as a great shock. It’s human nature to form quick first impressions; we’ve all been told early in our lives that first impressions are especially important because they tend to last a long time.
Publication Title
Writing Commons
Publisher
Writing Commons
Scholarly Commons Citation
Lamothe, J. (2019). How to Win Papers and Influence Professors: Creating Positive First Impressions through Effective Titles. Writing Commons, (). Retrieved from https://commons.erau.edu/publication/1329
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Nonfiction Commons, Other Rhetoric and Composition Commons, Technical and Professional Writing Commons
Additional Information
https://writingcommons.org/how-to-win-papers-and-influence-professors-creating-positive-first-impressions-through-effective-titles