Gram Post- Capitalization

In every paper I've gotten back so far this summer I have misused a capitalization at one point or another. So I decided, it would be fitting for my last grammar post to be about the proper use of Capitals. According to the Owl at Purdue, these are the rules regarding Capitalization.

*The first words of a sentence

*The pronoun "I"

*Proper nouns (the names of specific people, places, organizations, and sometimes things)

*Family relationships (when used as proper names)

*The names of God, specific deities, religious figures, and holy books
-Exception: Do not capitalize the non-specific use of the word "god."

*Titles preceding names, but not titles that follow names

*Directions that are names (North, South, East, and West when used as sections of the country, but not as compass directions)

*The days of the week, the months of the year, and holidays (but not the seasons used generally)
-Exception: Seasons are capitalized when used in a title

*The names of countries, nationalities, and specific languages

*The first word in a sentence that is a direct quote

*The major words in the titles of books, articles, and songs (but not short prepositions or the articles "the," "a," or "an," if they are not the first word of the title)

*Members of national, political, racial, social, civic, and athletic groups

*Periods and events (but not century numbers)

*Trademarks

*Words and abbreviations of specific names (but not names of things that came from specific things but are now general types)


The URL of the site I got these rules from is: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/592/01/