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The gmat writing skill 5

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the gmat writing skill 5', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE WRITING 2. Capitalize proper nouns. A proper noun is the name of a specific person place or thing as opposed to a general person place or thing . CAPITALIZE SPECIFIC DON T CAPITALIZE GENERAL Jennifer Johnson specific person the woman Business Law specific class my law class Main Street specific street on the street Frosted Flakes specific brand good cereal Caspian Sea specific sea deep sea ocean Lincoln Memorial specific monument impressive memorial monument U.S.S. Cole specific ship naval carrier Dade Management School specific school my graduate school Precambrian Age specific time period long ago Data Corporation specific company that company Exceptions Do not capitalize words such as river street and so on in plural proper nouns as they are generic the Pacific and Indian oceans. 3. Capitalize the days of the weeks and months of the year but not the seasons. It was a warm spring day in May. Wednesday is the first official day of autumn. 4. Capitalize the names of countries nationalities languages religions and geographical locations but not geographical directions . He has traveled to Brazil and Tunisia. She is half Chinese half French. She is from the South. Drive south for five miles. We speak Spanish at home. He is a devout Catholic. 258 ------------------------------ GUIDE TO EFFECTIVE WRITING ----------------------------------------- 5. Capitalize titles that come before proper names. Judge Lydia Ng Lydia Ng judge in the Fifth District Professor Lee Chang Lee Chang professor of physical science Vice President Tilda Stanton Tilda Stanton vice president 6. Capitalize titles of publications including books stories poems plays articles speeches essays and other documents as well as works of art including films paintings and musical compositions. Pablo Picasso s painting Guernica captures the agony of the Spanish Civil War. Read Susan Sontag s essay On Photography for class tomorrow. The Declaration of Independence is a sacred document. .