Paraphrasing means formulating someone else’s ideas in your own words. To paraphrase a source, you have to rewrite a passage without changing the meaning of the original text. Paraphrasing is an alternative to quoting, where you copy someone’s exact words and put them in quotation marks.

In a quotation in running text that is already enclosed in double quotation marks, use single quotation marks to enclose quoted material.”

The difference between paraphrasing and quoting is that when quoting you use the author’s exact words, and when paraphrasing you use the author’s ideas but put them in your own words.

According to most style guides, nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs are the only words capitalized in titles of books, articles, and songs. Prepositions, articles, and conjunctions aren’t capitalized (unless they’re the first or last word).

The days of the week are: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. When we write the days of the week, we always use a capital letter. Common nouns are the names of things. These don’t use a capital letter unless they are at the start of a sentence.

Months (January, February) and days of the week (Sunday, Monday) are also treated as proper nouns. You should capitalize titles of people when used as part of their proper name.

Why should we capitalize days of the week? Simple, all days of the week are proper nouns and any proper noun like your name, name of a place, or event must start with a capital letter. So, when writing, you use the day of the week as a proper noun to emphasize the day.

Seasons, such as winter, spring, summer and fall, do not require capitalization because they are generic common nouns. Some people may confuse these words as being proper nouns and try to capitalize them using that rule of capitalization.

The seasons—winter, spring, summer and fall—do not require capitalization. Some people think these words are proper nouns and capitalize them using the capitalization rule for proper nouns. But seasons are general nouns, so they follow the capitalization rules that apply to other general nouns.

The D is capitalized, and the s in syndrome is lower case. Autism Spectrum Disorder is also called autism (lower case a), or ASD. When a child or adult has both DS and ASD, we say they have a “co-occurring” diagnosis, or “co-occurring Down syndrome and autism”.