Capitalization Rules

During the second half of class, we reviewed capitalization rules, which you can see below:



A few rules not listed: you also capitalize regions such as the South, the Midwest, etc. You would also capitalize the adjective forms of these terms, such as "Southerner." You should also capitalize acronyms such as R&B, NBC, and USA. 


Using these capitalization rules, we then applied our knowledge to a couple of sample essays that have all capitalization removed. We highlighted or circled all the words in the essay that are supposed to be capitalized. These practices are due at the beginning of class on Tuesday, January 9th.

HINT: There are 38 words that should be capitalized on page 1 and 27 words that should be capitalized on page 2.