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To type the subject line in all lowercase is the worst of all options as it gives off a perception of laziness. For a casual email to a friend or family member, that is probably fine but if it is to a coworker for official business or, worse yet, your supervisor/boss, it makes you look very unprofessional.

Typing the subject line in all capital letters will often call attention to your email and implies urgency but if what you discuss therein has no urgency or significant importance about it, it generally makes you look foolish.

Typing in what is called Camel Notation (capitalizing every word whether appropriate or not) does not help your cause either. It gives the appearance that you cannot discern what is a significant word from insignificant for proper writing of a title and implies a lack of proper education.


A subject line that has an initial capital only (similar to standard sentence structure) or that has the significant words capitalized (similar to the writing of titles: Treatise on the Instability of Natural Wormholes, for example) shows formality, respect, proper consideration, and education, thus allowing you to have an air of professionalism and has the potential to set the reader into the right frame of mind to give consideration to what you convey.


In my emails, I tend to use the Title method but I have my father to blame for that. (He was a Professor of English for 30 years and he burned the rules of English usage into my brain from the time I was old enough to start forming sentences.)


If you have other questions, feel free to drop me a line. I'm always glad to help.

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