AP Style Rules

Question 1

Capitalization

Answer 1

Capitalize:

• proper nouns
• key words of composition titles like books
• Beginning of sentence
• a course name (official name - i.e. Algebra I), but not a generic course reference (I’m taking an algebra class.)
• Class of 2018, or Senior Class, not senior
• formal title before a name: Principal Victor Serna but teacher Bridget O’Neill.

Question 2

Titles

Answer 2

• Don’t use courtesy titles (note: this is the rule, but Seton always uses them).
• Use Dr. for medical doctors (note: this is the rule, but Seton always recognizes scholastic PhD and PhEd titles).
• Long titles preferred AFTER the name separated by comma
• If possible to omit title for brevity, do so.
• Composition titles are in quote marks. No italics or underlines.