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245 months ago

Ines (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	Rope courses/title of a text i
Context:	my question is general / Do I
Keywords:	general question

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245 months ago

Prabir Mudaliar wrote:

Capitalise all words except articles,prepositions and conjunctions.

My comment:

I quote from The Longman Writer's Companion (Anson, Schwegler, and Muth) p240 :

"In titles, capitalize the first word, the last word, and all words in between except articles (a, an, and the), prepositions under five letters (in, of, to), and coordinating conjunctions (and, but). These rules apply to titles of long, short, and partial works as well as your own papers" ).

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245 months ago

Prabir Mudaliar wrote:

I should clarify: "capitalise all words" means that the initial letter of each word is a capital letter.

245 months ago

Prabir Mudaliar wrote:

Sorry for these extra comments, but I thought a few examples might help: A Tale of Two Cities, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Jouney to the Centre of the Earth, etc.

245 months ago

Prabir Mudaliar wrote:

General question

My comment:

You do not necessarily have to write in capitals. But if you want to highlight the title you could try writing the entire word in capitals, as in "GENERAL QUESTION'

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245 months ago

Charles Warcup wrote:

Yours is the freedom, but also the responsibility ...

My comment:

Recommendation of the SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, University of St Andrews:
"Different authors (and publishers) follow different conventions when capitalising titles."
Have a look at the references below. The Economist Style Guide sums up the situation perfectly:
“a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds” (Emerson)

My references:

http://www.proz.com/post/87968#87968
http://www.economist.com/research/styleGuide/index.cfm?page=738525

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245 months ago

www.buero-garisch.de wrote:

see below

My comment:

It is not a MUST to use capital letters in headlines but a habbit which is changing today. In newspapers and magazines you mainly find capital-letter wordings tp stress those particular words, no matter if headline or not. So you find those Words in the Middle of Sentences ... and all over the place. So, decide yourself.

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245 months ago

Nicola Devlin wrote:

If it's a title, then both capital letters

My comment:

In a title you could also write every letter capital.

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