{"id":131,"date":"2015-01-07T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/?p=131"},"modified":"2015-01-19T23:20:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T23:20:03","slug":"spelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/2015\/01\/07\/spelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Lethbridge follows Canadian Press Stylebook and the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. However, there are exceptions that are unique to the University of Lethbridge.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u00a0A<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Aboriginal<\/li>\n<li>advisor<\/li>\n<li>alma mater<\/li>\n<li>alumna: a female graduate<\/li>\n<li>alumni: more than one graduate<\/li>\n<li>Alumni Association \u2013 capitalize if you\u2019re referring to the U of L Alumni Association (ULAA)<\/li>\n<li>alumnus: a male graduate<\/li>\n<li>analyse (not analyze)<\/li>\n<li>Applied Studies program (only capitalize the official full program name)<\/li>\n<li>applied studies coordinator (only capitalize if it\u2019s a job title preceding a name)<\/li>\n<li>applied studies course<\/li>\n<li>applied studied office vs. Faculty of Arts &amp; Science Applied Studies office<\/li>\n<li>applied studies placement<\/li>\n<li>applied studies student<\/li>\n<li>* The full name is Faculty of Arts &amp; Science Applied Studies\/Co-operative Education and Internship programs or Faculty of Arts &amp; Science Applied Studies\/Co-operative Education and Internship Office<\/li>\n<li>archeology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>B<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>BA<\/li>\n<li>BASc<\/li>\n<li>bachelor of management degree<\/li>\n<li>Bachelor of Management program<\/li>\n<li>bachelor\u2019s degree recipient<\/li>\n<li>BEd<\/li>\n<li>beta, beta testing<\/li>\n<li>BMgt<\/li>\n<li>BMgt certificate<\/li>\n<li>Board of Governors, the Board<\/li>\n<li>Board of Governors member (avoid Board of Governors representative)<\/li>\n<li>BSc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>C<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Calendar \u2013 the U of L Calendar states\u2026 According to the Calendar\u2026<\/li>\n<li>(references to other universities\u2019 calendars are not capitalized)<\/li>\n<li>centre<\/li>\n<li>centred on (not centred around)<\/li>\n<li>Chair \u2013 this title should always be capitalized so it\u2019s not confused with the chairs used for sitting!<\/li>\n<li>continuing education programs<\/li>\n<li>convocation ceremonies<\/li>\n<li>Co-operative Education program (full proper name)<\/li>\n<li>co-op coordinator (unless used as a job title preceding the name)<\/li>\n<li>co-op degree designation<\/li>\n<li>co-op office vs. Faculty of Arts &amp; Science Co-operative Education and Internship office<\/li>\n<li>co-op placement<\/li>\n<li>co-op student<\/li>\n<li>co-op work term<\/li>\n<li>course<\/li>\n<li>credit\/non-credit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>D<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>department \u2013 Capitalize the proper names of departments (History Department), but don\u2019t<\/li>\n<li>capitalize \u201cdepartment\u201d when it\u2019s standing alone.<\/li>\n<li>doctoral degree, doctoral student (avoid doctoral candidate) * note \u2013 \u201cdoctoral\u201d is an adjective, but doctorate is a noun. (She has a doctorate. vs. She has a doctoral degree.)<\/li>\n<li>doctorate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>E<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>email<\/li>\n<li>enrol<\/li>\n<li>enrolled<\/li>\n<li>enrolment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>F<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>faculty member<\/li>\n<li>Faculty of Arts &amp; Science<\/li>\n<li>Faculty of Arts &amp; Science Applied Studies\/Co-operative Education and Internship<\/li>\n<li>office<\/li>\n<li>Faculty of Education<\/li>\n<li>Faculty of Fine Arts<\/li>\n<li>Faculty of Management<\/li>\n<li>fall (winter, spring, summer)<\/li>\n<li>fall semester, Fall 2004 Semester<\/li>\n<li>fieldwork<\/li>\n<li>focused, focusing<\/li>\n<li>fundraiser, fundraising, fundraise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>G<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>governors<\/li>\n<li>graduand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>H<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>home page<\/li>\n<li>honour, honourable, honorary<\/li>\n<li>honorary degree \u2013 \u201cTom Jackson is an honorary degree recipient.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>I<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>internet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>L<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>LINC \u2013 avoid. 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However, there are exceptions that are unique to the University of Lethbridge. \u00a0A Aboriginal advisor alma mater alumna: a female graduate alumni: more than one graduate Alumni Association \u2013 capitalize if you\u2019re referring to the U of L Alumni Association (ULAA) alumnus: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/print-standards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}