When writing a assignment, should all the words in the title start with capital letters?

Question

i Have an assignment for college and i just aren't sure if title shouldhave capitals at the begining of every word?

Answer 1

In the title or name of a book, a play, a poem, a film, a magazine, a newspaper or a piece of music, a capital letter is used for the first word and for every significant word (that is, a little word like the, of, and or in is not capitalized unless it is the first word). In an assigment the same rules apply, so your title may look something like this:

Discuss the effect of the Second World War on the poor people of France.

The old fashioned way was to capitalise every first letter except for the joining word like "the", "of" etc. Either way you should not be marked down for this. The best way is to ask your lecturer which they prefer and do it that way!

Good Luck!

Answer 2

The proper grammatical rules of capital letters in a sentence don't hold for the title. What you are doing with the title is making a design decision and giving your title a style.

Look at book titles to give you an idea. The previous answers were right in that usually you put capital letters to the start of all the major words and only use total lower case for small joining words.

Another style you can use is called "small caps" or "lower case caps". This is where you write the whole of the title in capital letters, but make the leading letters slightly larger (e.g. do all the letters in 14pt bold and then the leading letters in 16pt). There are also some fonts designed like this. The reference shows this.

Then use 11point Ariel or Times Roamn type on 15pt leading for your body copy and 12pt bold for your paragraph headings.

There is a real good book called "Looking Good in Print" by Patrick Berry ( which is THE book for this kind of stuff) and it's easy to read and gives good practical tips and is also relatively cheap. Any version will do as the "rules" are timeless so even old editions have the right stuff.

Answer 3

only the first letter of paper and book titles should be capital letters. All the other words in the title should start with lower case letters, unless they are the name of a language; e.g. 'Chinese' or 'English'. Journal titles should have a capital letter at the start of each word, unless the word is an article or preposition. The first word of the journal title should always start with a capital letter

Answer 4

Writing in College:
A Short Guide to College Writing
by Joseph M. Williams and Lawrence McEnerney
http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/resources/collegewriting/

A+ Research & Writing
http://www.ipl.org/div/aplus/

Answer 5

I recommend you post the title and we'll put it into the correct form. Generally as everyone says, short words (conjunctions, prepositions, definitive article) are not capitalised, except when they start the title, thus:

The Cat Sat on the Mat
Now is the Time for All Good Men to Come to Order

..and so on.

Answer 6

If you were studying journalism you would be told that only proper nouns should be capitalised. But these days it would seem anything goes. I suppose a rule of thumb is to ask yourself why you want to write each word with a capital letter.

Answer 7

As i wondered too when doing my assignments i just did all my titles in capitals and never been marked wrong on any of them.

Answer 8

Major headings should be centered. Capitalize every word in the heading except articles (a, the), short prepositions (in, by, for), and coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or).

Answer 9

It depends on wht the words are. Like if the title is "The Man on the Moon." Its pretty much all the nouns but also the but nothing such as is, as, and, or, and, linking verbs.

Answer 10

That would be appropriate or you could put the title in toggle case (Toggle Case Is Written Like This).