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You Asked Me This Question / Should we capitalize all job titles?
« on: July 04, 2013, 10:28:13 PM »
I'd like to know what grammar rules are saying about capitalizing job titles.
I the other day had a 'fierce' argument with my Australian professor, who apparently felt demeaned that I wrote her title as 'dean of faculty' rather than as 'Dean of Faculty' in one line of my letter asking for permission to attend the wedding ceremony of a relative in a distant town. She refused to approve the letter unless I modified the phrase. But confident I hadn't committed any grammar mistake, I wasn't comfortable about making the change she wanted, challenging her to show me one grammar rule demanding all job titles be capitalized. Reddened and shaking with rage, she crumpled the letter in her hand and tossed it in a dustbin, forcing me out of her office while shouting ''I am not available to disputant students.''
Do we really have to capitalize every job title in sight as the professor suggested?
I the other day had a 'fierce' argument with my Australian professor, who apparently felt demeaned that I wrote her title as 'dean of faculty' rather than as 'Dean of Faculty' in one line of my letter asking for permission to attend the wedding ceremony of a relative in a distant town. She refused to approve the letter unless I modified the phrase. But confident I hadn't committed any grammar mistake, I wasn't comfortable about making the change she wanted, challenging her to show me one grammar rule demanding all job titles be capitalized. Reddened and shaking with rage, she crumpled the letter in her hand and tossed it in a dustbin, forcing me out of her office while shouting ''I am not available to disputant students.''
Do we really have to capitalize every job title in sight as the professor suggested?