New answers tagged capitalization
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Should I capitalize the main topics of my degree?
It is conventional to capitalize. See for example:
Cambridge University
Courses by subject
Archaeology and Landscape History
Biological Sciences
Business and Entrepreneurship
Creative Writing and ...
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Pluralising abbreviations ending in S
In my version of The Chicago Manual of Style (14th ed.), the relevant guidance (from section 6.16) is:
So far as it can be done without confusion, single or multiple letters . . . form the plural by ...
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Should all words be capitalized when separated by an ampersand in a bullet list?
The ampersand is merely an abbreviation for the word "and". In your example "Physics" and "Chemistry" would normally be capitalised regardless of the ampersand. Consider ...
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