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Capitalization in Essay Writing

Capitalization in Essay Writing. Narváez Pilar English Language II Prof. Mariana Mussetta UTN Villa Maria 2010. Capitalization. Rule 1. All the first letters in the headings of the movies, plays and novels. Exception: Do not capitalize little words within titles

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Capitalization in Essay Writing

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  1. Capitalizationin EssayWriting NarváezPilar English Language II Prof. Mariana Mussetta UTN Villa Maria 2010

  2. Capitalization • Rule 1. All the first letters in the headings of the movies, plays and novels. • Exception: Do not capitalize little words within titles • Articles: a, an, the. • Prepositions, including: against, between, in, of. • Conjunctions: and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet. • Infinitive: to.

  3. Examples: • ATale of Two Cities Rule 2. Capitalize a proper noun. Example:Golden Gate Bridge Rule 3  The first letter of every new sentence is capitalized. • Example: My mother is from Seoul.  My father grew up in Taegu.

  4. Capitalization • Rule 4  The pronoun I is always capitalized. • Example: Robert and I are going to discuss the political situation. • Rule 5.Capitalize the first word of a quoted sentence. • Examples:He said, "Treat her as you would your own daughter.""Look out!" she screamed. "You almost ran into my child."

  5. Rule 6 The names of individuals, companies, organizations as well as different historical periods and some events: UN, White House, State Department, Winston Churchill, the Republican Party. • Rule 7.The names of all geographical places as well as the names of continent, districts, rivers, oceans and lakes. Great Britain, London, Persian Gulf, Pacific Ocean. You should capitalize the compass points, except in cases when the specific region is mentioned.

  6. Rule 8. Capitalize words derived from proper nouns.   Example:I must take English and math.English is capitalized because it comes from the proper noun England, but math does not come from Mathland. • Rule 9 After a sentence ending with a colon, do not capitalize the first word if it begins a list.   Example:These are my favorite foods: chocolate cake, spaghetti, and artichokes.

  7. Rule 10. Biblical names as well the names of sacred places and works: the Koran, Mathew, Jesus. • Rule 11. The names of the days of the week as well as months and holidays (including religious ones): Monday, April, Christmas.

  8. OUTLINE

  9. Rule 12: Topic Sentence: Begin with capital letters and end with a period. • Although a general course of study may allow students to more fully explore their educational options, the advantages of specialization in college are many.

  10. Rule 13: Headings: Capitalize only the first letter of the word beginning the heading (and all proper nouns) Except for proper nouns, the words in the heading are not capitalized Do not put any punctuation at the end because these headings are not complete sentences. A. In private industry B. In government projects

  11. "Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish." John Jakes

  12. Works Cited Sosa Revol and Kofman. "The Written Process of Argumentation." LenguaInglesa IV. Facultad de Lenguas.. (2009) Print. Straus Jane . The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation. 10 edition. United States of America: Jossey-Bass , 2008. Print. Ruszkiewicz, John J., and Jim W. Corder. Handbook of Current English. 8th Edition. United States of America: HarperCollins Publishers, 1989. Print.

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