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I read [this
question](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/63001/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%81%A8%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E3%82%92%E5%8B%89%E5%BC%B7-studying-
with-marie-is-this-right) and realised that I don't know what the natural way
to make a title/section heading is.

Supposing I had a section in a science report which was "Designing the
experiment". What would be natural ways to write this? Here are some guesses:

1) 実験を設計している  
2) 実験を設計していること  
3) 実験の設計

1) feels wrong to me. I'm not at all sure about 2). 3) Seems okay but it only
works because I used a する verb.

Presumably the context is important too. Adding こと in 2) sounds formal. I
guess I wouldn't see that in a magazine headline. What about "Eating in fancy
restaurants" as the title of a magazine article. Would the verb be 食べている, 食べる
or some other conjugation?

In summary, how do you write "Doing X" as a headline/title/section heading in
formal and informal contexts?
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grammar
Verb form for titles and section headings
Suru-verbs are also nouns, so something like 実験計画 or 実験の計画 should be enough.
(設計 is usually for product design.) Non-suru-verbs are uncommon in scientific
articles in the first place. You should use 摂取/摂食/食事 instead of 食べること, 睡眠
instead of 寝ること, 閲覧/観察/確認/etc instead of 見ること, and so on. In addition, some
established [nouns formed from masu-
stem](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/32311/5010) are suitable in
technical contexts, too.
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