Personal Statement

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At the risk of posting the lamest personal statement question on this board, here goes:

When do you capitalize the "A", and when not:

anesthesiologist
anesthesiology (the field in general)
anesthesiology (a specific rotation)

I've got my own ideas, but this is a formal essay and I don't want to take the chance of missing and looking like a dolt who slept through elementary school...

Much thanx

 

[UTSouthwestern]

At the risk of posting the lamest personal statement question on this board, here goes:

When do you capitalize the "A", and when not:

anesthesiologist
anesthesiology (the field in general)
anesthesiology (a specific rotation)

I've got my own ideas, but this is a formal essay and I don't want to take the chance of missing and looking like a dolt who slept through elementary school...

Much thanx

Only at the beginning of a sentence.

 

[spacetygrss]

Only at the beginning of a sentence.

Really? A person in my Dean's office said that it doesn't matter one way or the other as long as you are consistent (obviously, it's always capitalized at the beginning of a sentence).

Hmmm. Now I'm confused.

 

[Induc(junc)tion]

Only at the beginning of a sentence.

Is this the consensus here?

 

[UTSouthwestern]

Really? A person in my Dean's office said that it doesn't matter one way or the other as long as you are consistent (obviously, it's always capitalized at the beginning of a sentence).

Hmmm. Now I'm confused.

Shoot that person in the office:

When to capitalize:
The first word of a sentence
Names of the days of the week, months of the year
The pronoun I
Names, including initials, of individuals
Titles which precede names
All names of holidays (excluding any prepositions)
The first word and all nouns in a salutation
The first word in the complimentary closing of a letter
Family relationship names when they precede a name or are used in place of person's name, especially in direct address
All words in the names of specific organizations and agencies excluding prepositions, conjunctions, and articles
Names of languages
Names of definite sections of a country or the world
Names of nationalities
Names of religions and deities
Adjectives formed from names of geographical locations, languages, races, nationalities, and religions
The first word and all the words in titles of books, articles, works of art, etc. excluding short prepositions, conjunctions, and articles

 

[fakin' the funk]

When do you capitalize the "A", and when not:

Yeah, none of those are capitalized. Unless, you're saying "Chairman of Anesthesiology" or "Department of Anesthesiology"

...but not "I want to be an Anesthesiologist." It makes you sound German, capitalizing all those nouns!

 

[Gern Blansten]

Is this the consensus here?

Agree with UT