Tham khảo tài liệu 'mastering machanics 7', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Chapter 9 Hitting the Big Time Capital Letters Jn This Chapter Choosing capitals for job and personal titles Capitalizing geographical names Identifying school and business terms that should be capitalized Selecting capital letters for literary and media titles Placing capital letters in abbreviations oetry is something I love but even I have to admit that poets get away with murder. Specifically they murder the rules for capital letters whenever they want to. A poet can write i sent sally to sue and no one blinks. Unfortunately the rest of us have to conform to capitalization customs. Most people know the basics Capital letters are needed for proper names the personal pronoun and the first letter of a sentence. Trouble may arrive with the finer points of capital letters in quotations which I cover in Chapter 8 titles both people and publications abbreviations and school or business terms. Never fear. In this chapter you get to practice all those topics. Even for nonpoets the rules for capital letters may vary. The major style setters in the land of grammar yes grammar has style and no grammarians aren t immune to trends sometimes disagree about what should be capitalized and what shouldn t. In this workbook I follow the most common capitalization styles. If you re writing for a specific publication or a particular teacher you may want to check which twenty-pound book of rules also known as a style manual you should follow. The most common are those manuals published by the Modern Language Association academic writing in the humanities the American Psychological Association science and social science writing and the University of Chicago general interest and academic publishing . Bowing to Convention and Etiquette People s Names and Titles Unless you re a poet or an eccentric rock star who wants to buck the trend you capitalize your name first last and initials. Titles job or personal are a different story. The general rules are as follows 11 A title preceding and
