I capitalize proper nouns, BRTD.
But the 90s emo writing style is to never use capital letters, ever.
I change my writing style for no man. actually, this isn't true, I haven't stirred up the gumption to write a typed academic assignment* without capitalizing the first letter of a sentence and adhering to other trivialities. I plan to, though. perhaps next semester.
*this is excluding some of the more useless (and un-graded) assignments I've had. one that was notable had us write in 350 word paragraphs in response to a prompt. the thing is actually hosted online, here, I'll get it for you.
ok, this one is one of the little things I'm proudest of in my almost 7 semesters now. the prompt was:
you can imagine some of the things people write in response:
and so on. here is my piece.
note: I made a few typos and have declined to add [sic] to the above. fend for yourselves.
http://alcoholoncampus.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/leadership/note 2: this has been a waste of time, I just realized I used proper grammar in the above. damn. ah, but here it is, I didn't on the last assignment:
http://alcoholoncampus.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/reflections-on-drinking-norms-on-campus/my memory is failing due to alcohol abuse but it's still capable of being correct in spirit if not in fact.
