Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

article title

English answer:

Government and Parliament Should Not Interfere With Affairs of SOEs

Added to glossary by mockingbird (X)
Mar 24, 2005 09:24
19 yrs ago
English term

article title

English Bus/Financial Journalism
is this sentence below effective for an article title?

The Government and Parliament’s Intervention should be Kept Away from the SOE

Discussion

Non-ProZ.com Mar 24, 2005:
State owned enterprises
Mikhail Kropotov Mar 24, 2005:
What is SOE?

Responses

+7
5 mins
Selected

Government and Parliament Should Not Interfere With Affairs of SOEs

Articles "the" and "a" should be omitted in titles.

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Note added at 8 mins (2005-03-24 09:32:28 GMT)
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or

briefly \"No Government Interference\"
Peer comment(s):

agree Mikhail Kropotov : maybe strike the "and Parliament" altogether?
8 mins
Yes, since Government usually refers to both executive and legislative branches, "Parliament" may be omitted. Thank you Mike! :-)
agree JeffFish (X) : Don't thank me - I'm just a fish!
8 mins
Thanks a lot, Jeff! :-)
agree Dina Abdo
18 mins
Thanks a lot, Hera! :-)
agree Robert Donahue (X)
1 hr
Thank you Negdevezde! :-)
agree Can Altinbay
1 hr
Thank you Can! :-)
agree zaphod : Parliament is redundant
2 hrs
Yes, I agree. See my note to SirReaL. Thank you Zaphod! :-)
agree mportal
7 hrs
Thank you mportal! :-)
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5 mins

explained below

For headlines in a newspaper and/or other publications it is best to keep it as short as possible. For one thing I would drop the articles from the sentence. How about:

Government and Parliament’s intervention must be seperated from SOE

Without further context I cannot gaurantee that the headline I provided is factually correct, but it is based on the headline provided.
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+1
6 mins

Restricting Governmental and Parliamentary Intervention ....[see)

Restricting Governmental and Parliamentary Intervention Vis- a- Vis the SOE....

Or something like this constructed more tightly (e.g.,with more nouns, etc.)
Peer comment(s):

agree Shane London : Yes. I like this. Words like 'not', 'should' and 'with' don't look right in a long title, all spelled with capitals.
1 hr
thx Shane
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+5
21 mins

Keep Government away from SOE

Hands off SOE! (tabloid newspaper version)

For a more scholarly title (in a magazine), try

Government and Parliament should avoid interfering in SOE.

I'm a bit surprised that SOE is already plural. It would seem more natural to write "the SOE" or "SOEs" or "SOE sector".

In any case, to make titles punchy, avoid passives.
Peer comment(s):

agree Mikhail Kropotov : good advice
3 mins
agree Shane London
59 mins
agree juvera
1 hr
agree NancyLynn
2 hrs
agree mstkwasa
2 hrs
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