Title Writing

Title Writing

Which words do you CAPITALIZE?

Book titles, headlines, and first-level headings are capitalized using title case, in which the first, last, and all major words are capitalized

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Lower-level headings are generally capitalized using sentence case, in which only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized.

• The curious incident of the dog in the night-time

In title case, capitalize all words except articles, prepositions, coordinating conjunctions, and the word to. In sentence case, capitalize only the words you would in a sentence.

• Title case: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

• Sentence case: The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Multiple Choice

Which type of title is this?

How to Be a Better Writer

• sentence case

• title case

Multiple Choice

Which type of title is this?

How to be a better writer

• sentence type

• title case

Here are the general rules for capitalizing headlines and titles of books, movies, reports, articles, and other works:

• Capitalize the first word and last word of a title.

• Capitalize all major words, which are all words except articles (a, an, the), prepositions (e.g., on, in, of, at), and coordinating conjunctions (and, or, but, and nor; also for, yet, and so when used as conjunctions

Multiple Choice

Should you capitalize articles and prepostions?

• yes

• no

• who cares

• Always lowercase the word 'to'.

• Capitalize the first element of a hyphenated word. E.g The Evil Mother-in-law Comes to Town

• Break a rule if you need to—for example, if a preposition is emphasized in a title, capitalize it.

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct answer

• long-term

• Long-term

• long-Term

Fill in the Blanks

Change this to title case

the idea of perfection

Multiple Choice

Which word is incorrect?

How the Grinch stole christmas

• Grinch

• christmas

• stole