Lower- or uppercase letters
When to use lowercase and uppercase letters in your academic writing?
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1. Subject and research areas Subject and research areas such as ’strategic management’, ’big data’ and ’business analytics’ are common nouns and do not usually take a capital letter:
Note: In English, there are two ways of using uppercase letters in titles and headings: 1) Capitalise the first letters of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and subordinating conjunctions, or 2) treat the heading as you would treat a sentence; you capitalise the first letter:
2. Degrees, programmes and courses When referring to degrees and study programmes in general, lowercase letters are used:
Course names are usually written with lowercase letters in Danish, whereas in English, the first letters of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and subordinating conjunctions are capitalised:
3. Job titles and academic degrees In Danish, most job titles are written with a lowercase initial letter:
In English, it is a little different. Here, titles are written with capital initial letters if the title is preceded by a name and with a lowercase initial letter if it follows the person’s name:
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