Saturday 8 February 2014

Week 6 Tip - Don't Write in All Caps

All caps is where you write something in capital letters, such as 'SPIKY STINKY-TRUMPY-BEAK ACCIDENTALLY DROPPED A WATER BOMB ON GENERAL GIBBERS' HEAD.'

Please do not write in all capitals. A mixture of lower and upper case letters is important because it helps readers understand the text.

It's much easier to read: 'Spiky Stinky-Trumpy-Beak accidentally dropped a water bomb on General Gibbers' head.' than the example above.

Look at the two sentences below:
'I accidentally sat on the threatening spike.'
'I accidentally sat on the threatening Spike.'

The first one contains 'spike' in lower case, so it means an actual spike. The second one contains 'Spike' with a capital letter and we know that capital letters are used for name of people, so it must be referring to the character Spike. If you wrote the whole sentence in capitals, the reader would have no way of telling whether you were writing about an actual spike, or Spike the coolest lumipoo in town.

I have to say, I wouldn't like to sit on either!

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