This document provides guidance on common grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors including: using advisor instead of adviser; proper capitalization and hyphenation of ethnic identifiers; correct forms for alumni/ae; periods with academic degrees; and other style points. It also notes recent changes by the Associated Press to reflect common usage of terms like email, cellphone, and smartphone as well as the name change for the city of Kolkata, India.
This document provides guidance on common grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors including: using advisor instead of adviser; proper capitalization and hyphenation of ethnic identifiers; correct forms for alumni/ae; periods with academic degrees; and other style points. It also notes recent changes by the Associated Press to reflect common usage of terms like email, cellphone, and smartphone as well as the name change for the city of Kolkata, India.
This document provides guidance on common grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors including: using advisor instead of adviser; proper capitalization and hyphenation of ethnic identifiers; correct forms for alumni/ae; periods with academic degrees; and other style points. It also notes recent changes by the Associated Press to reflect common usage of terms like email, cellphone, and smartphone as well as the name change for the city of Kolkata, India.
African-American hyphenated; Asian American (no hyphen); Native American (no hyphen) Alumnus: one male graduate Alumna: one female graduate Alumnae: two or more female grads Alumni: two or more male or mixed-gender grads; avoid “alumnae/i alumni association: capitalize only when “Union College” precedes it B.A., B.S., M.A.: include periods bachelor’s degree: lowercase board of trustees: capitalize only when “Union College” precedes it chair: not chairwoman, chairman, or chairperson Class of 2008 (not Class of ’08) Committee: capitalize only in full name, e.g., the Curriculum Committee course work: two words emeritus, emerita, emeriti: no italics; directly follows the word “professor” every day two words unless used as an adjective— e.g., “an everyday event” first-year student: hyphenated as a compound adjective freshman: when possible, avoid Latino, Latina
A FEW WORDS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY
The Associated Press recently changed its style on e-mail to email, cell phone to cellphone and smart phone to smartphone to reflect increasingly common usage. It also adopted Kolkata as its style for the Indian city formerly known as Calcutta.
Use a hyphen with other e- terms: e-book, e-business, e-commerce.