Capital Letters In Personal Statement

Very Quick Question! Does Anyone Know If In Your Personal Statement You Need A Capital 'p' For Physiotherapy & 'b' In Human Biology??? My Teacher Seems To Think I Do.. Im Sure I Dont:| Anyone???

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Reply 1

rottcodd

I don't know about that, but what I do know is that you don't have to capitalise every single word on an internet forum :smile:

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10184281#post10184281

Reply 2

euphoria_18

LMAO that actually was because i wrote in caps and they capitalised it all for me:| i didnt do it :|:| but thanks for the help.. NOT :|

Reply 3

rottcodd

I did help. Follow that link and there is a whole discussion of it. Or if you bothered to use the search function you would have seen that there have been lots and lots of threads about this.

Reply 4

James

When referring to the course title you should use capital letters.

For example:

I am applying for Mathematics because...

but:

I have always loved mathematics.

Reply 5

euphoria_18

rottcodd

I did help. Follow that link and there is a whole discussion of it. Or if you bothered to use the search function you would have seen that there have been lots and lots of threads about this.

alrite calm down i was joking:| thankyou for ur help very much appreciated :|

Reply 6

PS Reviewer

James Gurung

When referring to the course title you should use capital letters.

For example:

I am applying for Mathematics because...

but:

I have always loved mathematics.

Personally I don't agree with that but I have a problem with Random capitalisation Syndrome in all it's forms - PSs and elsewhere.

(and anyway "I'm applying for mathematics because" doesn't scan right - should be "I am applying to study mathematics because" :wink:

)

Reply 7

euphoria_18

James Gurung

When referring to the course title you should use capital letters.

For example:

I am applying for Mathematics because...

but:

I have always loved mathematics.

THANKS!

Reply 8

euphoria_18

My passion to study Physiotherapy stems from my enthusiasm for Human Biology

Is this ok?

Reply 9

PS Reviewer

euphoria_18

My passion to study Physiotherapy stems from my enthusiasm for Human Biology

Is this ok?

the NHS doesn't capitalise physio: http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/details/Default.aspx?Id=281

Reply 10

James

euphoria_18

My passion to study Physiotherapy stems from my enthusiasm for Human Biology

Is this ok?

No, I think my example was bad. In this case you are passionate about the subject, as opposed to a specific course.

Contrast:

My passion to study physiotherapy...

I am interested in your Physiotherapy course...

That's just my opinion, though. As PQ says it's largely a matter of opinion.

Reply 11

euphoria_18

lol now what do i do?? :s-smilie:

.. how about the human biology bit is that ok? im confused :| my teacher told me to capitalise it.. but hes old so you know makes mistakes :smile:

what do you advise?

Reply 12

Cowards

Oh who really cares anyway.

Reply 13

euphoria_18

uhhhhhh me:| otherwise i wouldnt be asking:|

Reply 14

Good bloke

<Loses the will to live>. Just read the thread that was linked by Rottcodd.

Reply 15

musicbloke

Good bloke

<Loses the will to live>. Just read the thread that was linked by Rottcodd.

lol

MB

Reply 16

generalebriety

euphoria_18

lol now what do i do?? :s-smilie:

.. how about the human biology bit is that ok? im confused :| my teacher told me to capitalise it.. but hes old so you know makes mistakes :smile:

what do you advise?

Jesus.

Right, here's the best advice you'll get: it doesn't matter one tiny little bit to anyone. Capitalise, don't capitalise, whatever, no one will care; just make sure you're consistent, otherwise it looks like you don't know what you're doing. Make a conscious decision to do it one way or the other and stick with it. I found it easiest (and most aesthetically pleasing) not to capitalise at all.

Reply 17

Good bloke

generalebriety

I found it easiest (and most aesthetically pleasing) not to capitalise at all.

And that is the answer that is most likely to follow grammatical rules that will be recognisable to literate admissions tutors.

Reply 18

generalebriety

Good bloke

And that is the answer that is most likely to follow grammatical rules that will be recognisable to literate admissions tutors.

Well, exactly. I couldn't be doing with just capitalising random Nouns in my Sentence. It all looks rather Germanic.

On t'other hand, plenty of people do talk about Physics and Chemistry, and good luck to 'em, no admissions tutor is actually going to care as long as they don't talk about physics one line, Physics the next and pHySiCs the next.

Reply 19

PS Reviewer

Good bloke

And that is the answer that is most likely to follow grammatical rules that will be recognisable to literate admissions tutors.

And generally fewer capitalised words in a passage of text is easier on the eye than regular capitalisation where it isn't strictly necessary.

And generally Fewer Capitalised words in a passage of text is easier on the eye than Regular Capitalisation where it isn't Strictly necessary.

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