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To capitalise or not to captialise? That is the question! And here, the final verdict

I run into this serious conflict the first time I tried writing for Wikipedia; a significant part of the guidelines said: “On Wikipedia, we use sentence case for titles.” It was so odd! I had been so used to ‘Title Case Headings’ especially from school and other formal writing requirements that, I wondered why a world class platform like that would insist on something other than what I considered ‘the conventional’ or ‘the standard.’ But really, which one is better, and why?

Just for the avoidance of doubt, in sentence case, only the first word and proper nouns are capitalised, whereas in title case almost all the words in the phrase are capitalised (usually except for “minor” words such as articles, short prepositions of up to three letters, and some conjunctions; unless they are the first or last word). So for example, ‘Four common and very surprising habits that make life difficult‘ is sentence case, and ‘Four Common and Very Surprising Habits That Make Life Difficult‘ is title case.

A fair amount of research reveals that more argument is made for writing titles and headings in sentence case, especially as that meets most online writing objectives; the merits far outweighs the demerits. One such presentation on Stanford Univesity’s web services blog, titled ‘Writing for the Web,’ makes a very persuasive argument for sentence case.

Sentence case titles and headings are much more readable. So on this Seers App platform, and on your personal blog or similar platforms, we strongly recommend that you use sentence case for all your titles and headings; this makes reading easy and thus gets better results, which is ultimately what you desire: results!

Caveat

You will notice that on this Seers App platform, when a person clicks through to the final document, an UPPERCASE TITLE is implemented; we have designed the system to automatically do that. This may be the only exception to the rule, as that serves to give emphasis, and it’s graphically more appealing and thus enhances the results.

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To capitalise or not to captialise? That is the question! And here, the final verdict

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David K Egyir

David K Egyir

EGYIR is passionate about helping serious people like you to escape the most dangerous — common but avoidable — problem most people (rich, poor, educated, uneducated, religious, and non-religious alike) face in life. Also, he designs and builds beautiful, cost-effective and functional buildings, and graphics. And he helps executives, marketers, and business owners to make effective presentations; what you may call winning presentations. He is an Architect, a Designer, and a Life Coach. And an Entrepreneur. Especially as a life-coach, he has been popularly adjudged the best coach for excelling in education, increasing wealth, eliminating stress, and enjoying true fulfillment in life! Egyir understands life thoroughly and shares amazingly liberating insights from a uniquely empowering perspective. He has a firm conviction that, “The greatest tragedy in life is that majority of people have accepted to be less than they were born to be and are thus accomplishing far less than their true capabilities.” To that end, he authored (wrote) Purpose Compass, the exceptional life-coaching book that reveals 4 habits that are currently making your life difficult, or otherwise may soon make your life difficult, but which your parent, teacher, or pastor would dare not talk about; how to escape them and get to live a stress-free life of purpose faster! And 13 other equally amazing books that constitute the Zing4Life! Series. Egyir is also lead promoter of the electronic, trendy and amazing Smart Business Card, the only business card you’ll ever need, for the executive in you! He is a husband, and a father of two. Positionally, he is the Lead Founder and CEO of Seers, Associate of Arthro Synergeio, Lay Preacher of The Methodist Church Ghana, Global Lead Advocate of Zing4Life! and Volunteer Mentor with iMentor Ghana. To see more about him you may click here. #WeAreSeers | To get in touch with Egyir or to follow him on social media you may click here. #EgyirGuidesDaily | To support his writing & life-coaching social ministry you may click here. #SeersFoundation | To be part of Egyir's live sessions online at 20.30 GMT on Sundays you may click here. #TimeWithSeers |

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To capitalise or not to captialise? That is the question! And here, the final verdict