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Monday, 6 December 2010

Written Communication - Part 2: Capitalisation


Capitalisation is when you use an upper-case letter to start a word and the letters that follow are all in lower-case.



  • Sentance Case — The most common in English Prouse. Only the first word is capitalized, except forProper Nouns and other words which are generally capitalized by a more specific rule.

  • Title case — All words are capitalized except for certain subsets defined by rules that are not universally standardized. The standardization is only at the level of house styles and individual style manuals

  • All Caps: Only capital letters are used.

  • Small Caps: Capital letters are used which are the Size of the lower-case"x". Slightly larger small caps can be used in a Mixed Case fashion. Used for initialisms, names, mathematical entities and computer commands in printed text.

  • Lowercase only: Sometimes used for artistic effect, such as in poetry. Also commonly seen in computer commands and SMS Language (texting) for quick typing.

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