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>
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