[Stylist] Grammar question: capitalizing a word for emphasis

[Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter]

Traditionally, yes, italicizing is used when emphasizing a word; similarly,
it's also used to denote a character's thoughts when a dialogue tag is not
provided at the end. But nowadays, writers use a lot more experimental ways
to indicate emphasis. Essentially, old rules are meant to be broken, smirk.
However, if the instructor wants you to follow more traditional rules, do
that for the class so you're not docked points for arbitrary rules, grin.

Bridgit

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From: Stylist <stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Vejas Vasiliauskas
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Subject: [Stylist] Grammar question: capitalizing a word for emphasis

Hi everyone,
I'm currently taking an awesome short story class. We have to write one
short story a week, loosely based off of each week's assigned short story.
The final copies are then due as a collection later in the semester, but the
drafts are workshopped.
In my most recent short story, two college friends who have been very close
in the past meet up for a very, very awkward catch-up, and one of them asks,
"Who made THAT rule?" I thought that capitalizing "that" would make it
obvious just how incredulous the speaker was. However, my teacher said to
italicize the word "that" rather than use all-caps. Of course, I will do as
he asks for this class... but is capitalizing words, in general, appropriate
for emphasis?
Thanks,
Vejas   
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