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1. CAPITALIZATION
An Academic presentation by
Dr. Nancy Agnes, Head, Technical Operations,
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2. Down style Up style
The President announced
The Truman administration
After the secretary of state left
The President Announced
The Truman Administration
After the Secretary of State left
• Proper nouns and adjectives are generally capitalized, but there are two rules for
dealing with words that are not unquestionably proper.
• Down style favours a minimal use of capital letters; up style capitalizes much more
nouns and adjectives:

3. • Some newspapers and periodicals utilize the up style, although
the down style is more common in book production.
• Capitalization is more than just an orthographic convention; it
holds the power to transform a simple word into something
significant.
• With the stroke of a pen or the tap of a keyboard, the use of
capital letters can elevate meaning, emphasize the importance,
and lend a sense of Proofreading authority to our written
language.

4. • You can save a lot of time if you ask your copyeditors coordinator or the author about
capitalization after you've skimmed the manuscript and before you start working on it.
• "Most authors.do not feel strongly about capitalization," according to Chicago 14,
although the editor of the Cambridge University Press style handbook advises the
opposite: "Many authors have strong feelings about capitalization."
• Do not go too far with logic because you will end up with too many or too few capitals"
(Judith Butcher, Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbook, 2nd ed. [Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1981]).

5. • The reality may lay somewhere in the middle: most authors do not
have strong feelings about capitalization; for others, capitalization is
more than just a typography question; it is a matter of granting or
denying significance to a phrase.
• Some academic, professional, and technical norms deviate from
the down-style choices demonstrated in Chicago and WIT.

6. • As a result, while your style manual should serve as a starting point, you should always be
prepared to accept existing standards in the author's profession.
• It is more vital to make sensible, consistent decisions than to follow every preference indicated
in a general-purpose style guideline.
• You should always document your capitalization selections on your style sheet so that you and
others can keep track of them.

7. Here are some pointers about the most common headaches that
arise in the area of capitalization.
• Personal Names and Titles
• Geographical Names
• Racial and Ethnic Groups
• Company Names, Trademarks and Brand Names
• Cyberjargon
• Titles of Works
• Names of Plants and Animals

8. • In the realm of grammar, capitalization is employed to mark the beginning of sentences, proper
nouns, and titles.
• It grants identity and individuality to people, places, and things.
• Pubrica acknowledges its unique presence in our years by capitalizing on a research area. By
capitalizing the name of a city or country, we recognize its distinct character and history.

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