Essay Title:

why i am an american patriot

Which words should be capitalized?

thanks!

Everything except "an" should be capitalized:
Why I Am an American Patriot

Why I Am an American Patriot

The following guidelines represent traditional title capitalization standards. They are especially useful in answering questions about capitalization of adverbs, prepositions, verbal phrases, and the like.

* Capitalize all nouns, verbs (including is and other forms of to be), adverbs (including than and when), adjectives (including this and that), and pronouns (including its).
* Always capitalize the first word, regardless of it's part of speech.
* Capitalize prepositions that are part of a verb phrase ("Backing Up Your Disk").
* Do not capitalize articles (a, an, the) unless an article is the first word in the title.
* Do not capitalize coordinate conjunctions (and, but, for, nor, or).
* Do not capitalize prepositions of four or fewer letters.
* Do not capitalize to in an infinitive phrase ("How to Format Your Hard Disk").
* Capitalize the second word in compound words if it is a noun or proper adjective or the words have equal weight (Cross-Reference, Pre-Microsoft Software, Read/Write Access, Run-Time). Do not capitalize the second word if it is another part of speech or a participle modifying the first word (How-to, Take-off).

All set. Thanks for the help. That is correct. Just found it on the assignment.)