Re: English 101

Subject: Re: English 101
From: Barry Campbell <barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:00:51 -0400


On 5/18/05, John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> I don't know how to capitalize words in a title
> There, I said it.

John,

Here's my two cents. This is not a matter of hard-and-fast rules,
grammatical or otherwise, but a question of style--that is to say,
something that your house style guide or the Authoritative Style
Manual of Your Choice should be able to answer.

Personally, I prefer sentence-style title capitalization, in which you
capitalize only the first word (and any proper names.) This appears
to be the usual British standard, is increasingly popular in the US,
and seems to be popular in technical and scientific literature.
Capitalizing other words in a title seems rather archaic to me.

The Chicago Manual of Style, if memory serves, recommends capitalizing
most words in a title (but not conjunctions or the "to" in an
infinitve, etc.)

Does this help at all?

- bc

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Barry Campbell <barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com>
AOL IM: bcampbellnyc
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