Capitalisation Rules

Introduction to
Academic Writing
AREN 105
Kittinata Rhekhalilit
Faculty of Liberal Arts
MU
Capitalisation Rules
Calendar Divisions: names of days
or months: Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, March, June, etc. and

Holiday or special days; Songkran,

Christmas, Easter, Boxing Day, etc

Do NOT capitalize names of season;

fall, spring, summer, winter.
Capitalisation Rules
The first word
Capitalize the first word of the
sentence after the full stop.
Capitalisation Rules
Geographical Terms
Capitalize the names of
countries, territories, regions,
etc.
Ex. British Columbia, the Seine
River (but the river Seine), the
North Pole, the Sahara Desert,
the Far East
Capitalisation Rules
Government Terms
Capitalize the names of the
administrative, organisation, or
departments
Ex. The House of the
Representatives, the Senate, the
Department of Labour, the British
Embassy, etc

 Capitalisation Rules
Names of specific groups of people,
languages, and religions.
Ex. Buddhism, Christianity, Caucasian,
Nordic, Eskimo, Indian, Chinese,
French, Trukese, Ponapean, etc
and the course subject with numbers;
English 105, Chemistry 101, Anatomy
102, etc
Capitalisation Rules
Abbreviations and acronyms
Ex. SEA, UN, USA,
Capitalisation Rules
Proper nouns (with title)
Ex. Chulalongkorn
University,
Mahidol University,
Chiang Mai University,
Chomsky, Shakespeare,
Einstein
Mr. Smiths, Mrs. Dorothy
Capitalisation Rules
. The pronoun I

The title of writing

Ex. Love Actually, Saturday
Evening Post, The Post, The
Journal of Religion, etc
Capitalisation Rules
The best general rule to
follow is this: use the capitals
only for a specific purpose
and in accordance with a
clearly recognised principle.
EXERCISE
- Her major is business.

- Thanksgiving is a holiday in
both Canada and the United
States, but it is celebrated on
different days in two countries.
EXERCISE
- It is celebrated on the fourth
Thursday in November in the
United States and on the
second Monday in October in
Canada.
EXERCISE
Istanbul is a seaport city in Turkey.

Greenhills College is located in

Boston, Massachusetts.

I am taking four classes this

semester: American history,
Sociology 32, Economics 40, and
a computer science course.
EXERCISE
I read a good book last weekend by
Earnest Hemingway called The Old
Man and the Sea.

My roommate is from the south, so she

speaks English with a southern
accent.

The two main religions in Japan are

Buddhism and Shintoism.
 EXERCISE
A Future Businessman

I would like to introduce my classmate

Roberto Sanchez. He is from the beautiful
island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean
Sea. Roberto is twenty-one years old.
 EXERCISE
He was born in San Juan, the capital city.
His native language is Spanish. He
studied English in elementary school and
in high school, too. Roberto comes from
a large family.
 EXERCISE
He has three older brothers and two
younger sisters. He likes to play the
electric bass. He and some friends have
a small brand.
 EXERCISE
Sometimes they play on Saturday nights
at the Fantasia Club on Fourth Street in
downtown San Jose. Baseball is his
favorite sport. The San Francisco Giants
are his favorite team.
 EXERCISE
Now he is studying English at Greenhills
College. In September of next year, he will
begin to study business and computer
science at a university. After graduation, he
wants to work for a large tech company
such as Intel or IBM.
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