<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>On the style sheet for report preparation guidelines (<a href="http://web.mit.edu/annualreports/stylesheet.html">http://web.mit.edu/annualreports/stylesheet.html</a>), the Capitalization section explains it:</div><div><h2 style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Verdana, Lucida, sans-serif; margin: 40px 0px 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">Capitalization</h2><p style="margin: 15px 0px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In running text, follow the <i>Chicago Manual of Style</i> <i><a href="http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch08/ch08_sec001.html" style="color: rgb(3, 71, 162); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">down</a></i><a href="http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch08/ch08_sec001.html" style="color: rgb(3, 71, 162); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; "> style of capitalization</a>: President Hockfield, the president; the provost; the chancellor; the dean; Department of Physics, the department; the Departments of Biology and Chemistry, the departments; Center for Real Estate, the center. <br><br><i>But note the following exceptions: </i>the Institute, the School (where the context clearly establishes the identity of the school), the Association (i.e. the MIT Alumni Association), the Corporation (i.e. the MIT Corporation), the Faculty (i.e. the voting MIT Faculty), the Libraries (i.e. the MIT Libraries), the Press (i.e. the MIT Press), Institute Professor, and MacVicar Faculty Fellow.</p><p style="margin: 15px 0px 0px; font-family: Verdana, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">Names of <a href="http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch08/ch08_sec084.html" style="color: rgb(3, 71, 162); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">academic fields</a> are capitalized only when they appear as part of a department or program name: he majored in biology; he earned a PhD in biology; he was a student in the Department of Biology; he was a student in Biology (department implied).</p></div><div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; ">Hope this helps!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; ">-Kris</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; ">---<br>Kris M Mattera<br>Communications Assistant, Social Media <br>School of Architecture + Planning | School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences | Arts at MIT<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology <br>Mail: MIT 7-231 | Office: MIT 9-422<br>o: 617-324-8469 | c: 617-652-0829<br><br><br><br></span>
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<br><div><div>On Jul 30, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Patricia Sampson <<a href="mailto:patsys@MIT.EDU">patsys@MIT.EDU</a>></div><div> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>As we finish up our section of the MIT Presidents Report, we are having discussions about the word 'department'... to D or d is the question. Most of our faculty here want to capitalize throughout. The AP Stylebook clearly suggests only capitalizing when used with a formal name such as MIT Department of...</div>
<div><br></div><div>When referring to the MIT catalogue about EECS (from whence this discussion has come), here is an example sentence:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204)"><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Lucida,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:17.77777862548828px">More information about the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and its programs can be obtained from the department's website at </span><a href="http://www-eecs.mit.edu/" style="color:rgb(51,51,153);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Lucida,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:17.77777862548828px" target="_blank">http://www-eecs.mit.edu/</a><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Lucida,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:17.77777862548828px">. </span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Arial,Lucida,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.333333969116211px;line-height:17.77777862548828px;background-color:rgb(204,217,236)"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:17.77777862548828px;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">What are 'your' rules?</font></span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:17.77777862548828px;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height:17.77777862548828px;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Just thought I would check though this has probably been circulated more than once!</font></span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:17.77777862548828px;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height:17.77777862548828px;font-size:13.333333969116211px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Patsy</font></span></div>
<div><br></div>-- <br>Patricia A. Sampson<br>Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department<br>EECS Headquarters Room 38-409G <br>tel: <a href="tel:617%20253.4642" value="+16172534642" target="_blank">617 253.4642</a><br>
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