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  • W. Trevor King's avatar
    README.md: Change headers ("Students" -> "For leaners") · a3144899
    W. Trevor King authored Dec 17, 2014
    This is based on swcarpentry/workshop-template@5451fb9c1 (Enumerating
    setup/run instructions for installation test scripts, 2014-12-17).
    Greg suggested he switch from "Students" to "Learners" because some
    professors attend workshops as students but don't feel comfortable
    being called students [1]?  Or something like that.  I don't mind
    either way, so we'll just go with Greg's preference.
    
    The addition of a "For" in the section headings seems like a good
    change though, since it makes it clear that the noun in the heading
    marks the intended audience for that section, not the intended
    subject.
    
    I went with 'Sentence case' titles because I think they're more
    readable and it's easier to be consistent.  There are a number of
    folks who agree with me [2,3], including (apparently) the Oxford Guide to
    Style [4] (I'm ok with title case for book and organization titles ;).
    Although the American Psychological Association perfers 'Title Case'
    for the first two levels of headings as well [5].
    
    [1]: https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/pull/89#issuecomment-67718126
    [2]: http://www.snappysentences.com/sentence-case-v-title-case/
    [3]: http://www.stickycontent.com/blog/are-you-team-title-case-or-team-sentence-case.php
    [4]: http://ux.stackexchange.com/a/48620
    [5]: http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2012/03/title-case-and-sentence-case-capitalization-in-apa-style.html
    
    
    
    Based-on-patch-by: default avatarGreg Wilson <gvwilson@third-bit.com>
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