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professional
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All professional titles, including the following, are to be used
lowercase except when immediately preceding a proper name:
dean (all ranks)
chair
chancellor
professor (all ranks, except named chairs)
trustee
Always capitalize titles of named chairs (e.g., the James S. McDonnell
Distinguished Professor). Always use the correct current title,
such as Associate Professor John T. Gleaves, on first reference;
do not simply use “Professor” if the faculty member has not attained
that rank. Also, use academic titles rather than “Dr.” in publications.
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honorifics
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the Rev. Dr. |
Maj. |
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the Rev. Mr. |
Lt. Col. |
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the Rt. Rev. Mr. |
the Hon. |
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Rabbi |
Mr. |
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Father (See AP stylebook.) |
Ms. |
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Sister (See AP stylebook.) |
Mrs. |
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Gen. |
Miss (if requested) |
magazine titles, books, newspapers, movies, operas,
long poems, television series, plays, paintings, sculptures, art exhibits,
compact disc titles, computer game titles
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Put in italics (e.g., Time, The Chicago
Manual of Style, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Casablanca, The Ring, The
Waste Land, Lost, The Death of a Salesman, Mona Lisa, Rodin’s
The Thinker, Paris in Japan, Sarah McLachlan’s Mirrorball,
Pac-Man). |
articles, chapters, short poems, television episodes,
songs, lecture titles, dissertation titles
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Use quotation marks (e.g., “Containing
Japan” in The Atlantic Monthly, “Elementary Rules
of Usage” in The Elements of Style, Howard Nemerov’s
“Grace To Be Said at the Supermarket,” the “Chuckles
Bites the Dust” episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show,
“The Star-Spangled Banner,” William Bowen’s lecture
on“Teaching, Learning, and Technology: Issues for Higher Education,”
Anne Craver’s dissertation on “The Persistence of Vision
in Andrée Chedid’s Poetry”). |
ships, planes, spacecraft
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Names of specific vessels are italicized
(but not such abbreviations as SS or HMS preceding them): HMS Frolic,
Spirit of St. Louis, Voyager 2. Designations of class or make,
names of trains, and names of space programs are capitalized only:
U-boat, Boeing 707, Broadway Limited, Project Apollo. |
course names
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In general, use capital letters only for official course titles
(e.g., Plants and Civilization). Do not use quotation marks around
the course name.
In undergraduate recruitment materials, however, official course
titles should be italicized.
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