Colloquia: Novel Rules for the Post-Genomic Era
I’ve decided that there are a few standard rules for making good titles for talks at small symposia:
- The title must be short. No more than six or seven words. These can be exceedingly long, compound words, but please keep it to six or seven.
- Use a colon.
- It must not communicate anything concrete about the actual contents of the talk.
- Don’t let the title pin you down; talk about whatever you feel like. Change the title/topic without prior notice, if you wish.
- The title can be either grandiose and far-reaching or short and quirky, but keep in mind rule number 3.
- Puns are optional.
- Include some form of “new”, “novel”, “super-fantastically cool”, etc. This goes after the colon.
Any other rules that you all can think of?
