When to capitalize? This handy guide can help
Print and post this cheat sheet to give you the lowdown on what to uppercase.
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This post outlines the basic, most common guidelines for capitalization, with examples.
Academic degrees: Lowercase—”bachelor’s degree”; capitalize entirety of most abbreviations (with a few exceptions, including PhD and DLitt)
Academic disciplines: Capitalize only proper names—”Asian studies” (except as part of a full name of an entity (“the School of Business,” “the Department of Philosophy,” “the Commission on the Liberal Arts,” etc.)
Acronyms and initialisms: Capitalize most abbreviations of proper names—NATO, FBI (but some style guides and writing handbooks call for using initial capitalization only for extensive and established acronyms, as with Nasdaq); most abbreviations for units of measurement are not capitalized, but check a dictionary or style guide for exceptions
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