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| Abbreviations |
- Streets, avenues, roads,
boulevards
- Days of the week,
months of the year
- Acronyms
- City and state
- Pluralizing lowercase
single-letter abbreviations
- Beginning a sentence
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| Academic Calendar/Terms |
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| AD/CE |
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| Addresses |
- Addresses in copy
- Full mailing addresses
- Separating elements with commas
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| Advisor |
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| Affirmative Action Statement and other Required Information |
- Long Form
- Short Form
- ROTC
- Job Number
- Disclaimer
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| African American |
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| Age |
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| Alumnus, Alumni |
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| Ampersand |
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| Apostrophe |
- Plurals of figures, years, or abbreviations
- Plurals of letters and
academic grades
- Possessives of abbreviations
- Degrees
- Year of graduation
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| Art |
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Articles
(in newspapers, magazines, etc.) |
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| Avenue |
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| Awards, Prizes |
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| BC/BCE |
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| Black |
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| Board of Trustees |
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| Books, Book Chapters |
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| Buildings |
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| Campuses |
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| Cannot |
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| Capital Campaign |
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| Capitalization |
- Hyphenated compounds
- Parts of the world and regions of a country
- Compass directions
- Seasons
- Legislative, executive, and administrative bodies
- Corporate, professional, and governmental titles before a name
- Nonspecific noun and adjective references
- Political organizations, members
- Political and economic systems
- Numerical designation of
historical time periods in a proper name
- Nouns in major reference headings
- Nouns in minor reference headings
- Genus names
- Geological eras, periods, epochs,
and strata
- Titles of books, long poems,
magazines, newspapers, plays,
movies, pamphlets, CDs,
long musical compositions, radio
and TV programs, and works of art
- Titles of short poems and stories, essays, lectures, dissertations, book chapters, articles, grant
proposals, and songs
- Titles of book sections
- Philosophical, literary, musical, and artistic movements, styles, and
schools from proper nouns
- Acronyms
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| Carnegie Mellon University |
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| Cathedral of Learning |
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| CD |
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| CE |
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| Centers, Institutes, Laboratories |
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| Cents |
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| Century |
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| Chancellor |
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| Chapters (of books) |
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| City of Pittsburgh |
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| Class |
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| Collective Nouns |
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| Colons |
- Capitalization of first word after colon
- Colons in titles
- Colons with quotations marks
- Space after colons
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| Commas |
- In a series
- With Jr., Sr., or numerals in a name
- Nonessential/nonrestrictive clauses
- Essential/restrictive clauses
- Between two adjectives
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| Commonly Misused Words |
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| Commencement |
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| Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
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| Company Names |
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| Computer Terminology |
- Terms
- E-mail
- Breaking Web sites on two or more lines
- Web addresses at the end of sentences
- Web addresses in text
- Pitt e-mail addresses
- Using http
- Login/log in
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| Conferences |
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| Courses, Classes, Majors |
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| Dashes |
- Em dashes
- En dashes
- Hyphens
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| Dates, Years |
- Days of the month
- Commas with dates
- BC/AD and BCE/CE
- Inclusive years
- Plurals of years
- Referencing dates
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| Days |
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| Degrees (academic) |
- Abbreviations
- Doctorate
- Honors
- Certificates
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| Degrees (temperature) |
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| Departments, Offices, Programs, Schools |
- Academic departments, offices, programs, schools
- Administrative departments and offices
- Schools of the health sciences
- University of Pittsburgh Police Department
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| Directions |
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| Dissertations |
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| Dollars |
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| Ellipses |
- Within quoted material
- At the end of quoted material
(full and incomplete sentences)
- At the beginning of a sentence
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| E-mail |
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| Endowed Chairs, Professorships |
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| Ethnicity and Race |
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| Fellowships, Scholarships |
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| Forms |
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| Fundraiser/Fundraising |
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| Gender Sensitivities |
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| Genus Names |
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| Grades |
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| Grant Proposals |
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| Greek |
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| Health Care |
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| Health Sciences |
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| Homecoming |
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| Hospitals |
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| Hyphens, Compounds |
- Two-word compound adjectives
before a noun
- Compound adjectives of three
or more words before a noun
- Adverbs ending in -ly before an adjective
- Compound adjectives where the
second word ends in -ed
- Nouns that represent different and equally important functions
- Prefixes
- Self- and ex- compounds
- Suffixes
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| Institutes |
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| Italics |
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| Jr., Sr., Numerals in a Name |
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| Laboratories |
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| Latin Terms |
- Latin terms in text
- Emeritus, emeriti
- Résumé, curriculum vitae, vita, CV
- Plurals of Latin terms
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| Lectures, Lecture Series |
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| Lists (vertical, numbered, bulleted) |
- Commas and periods
- Commas and periods with complete sentences
- Semicolons and periods with complete sentences
- Periods with series items that are complete sentences themselves
- Punctuating letters or numbers used to enumerate a list
- Capitalization of first words
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| Magazines |
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| Majors |
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| Money |
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| Months |
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| Musical Compositions and Terms |
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| Newspapers |
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| Numbers |
- General rule
- Beginning a sentence
- In a list
- Age
- Percentages
- Dollars and cents
- Numerical amounts equal to or greater than 1 million
- Temperature, degrees
- Other exceptions
- Use of numerals for the sake of consistency
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| Offices |
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| Organizations |
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| Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of; Orthopaedic |
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| Percent |
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| Phone Numbers |
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| Pittsburghese |
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| Plurals, Possessives |
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| Poems |
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| Police |
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| Prefixes |
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| Professorships |
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| Proved/Proven |
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| Quotation Marks |
- Placing commas and periods
- Placing colons and semicolons
- Placing a question mark, exclamation point, or dash
- Single quotation marks for quotations within a quotation
- Several paragraphs of a quotation
- Topics of talks, papers, or presentations
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| Race |
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| Radio Programs |
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| Referencing People |
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| Regional Campuses |
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| Road |
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| Scholarships |
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| Schools |
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| Seal/Signature |
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| Seasons |
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| Semicolons |
- General rule
- In a series
- With quotation marks and parentheses
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| Series |
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| Social Security |
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| Songs |
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| Spacing |
- Between sentences in copy
- Abbreviations in names
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| Special Events |
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| Street |
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| Student Terminology |
- Academic years (freshman, sophomore, graduate student, etc.)
- Racial, linguistic, religious, and other groups
- Greek(s)
- Years of graduation
- Punctuating years of graduation
- The word class when used with a year
- Officers of a class, social organization, etc.
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| Television Programs |
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| Temperature |
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| Terms |
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| Tests |
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| That/Which |
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| Theses |
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| Times |
- Hours of the day, a.m. and p.m., noon and midnight, use of :00
- When used with o’clock
- Precise times
- Numbers of hours or minutes
- No commas between time and day or date
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| Titles of Persons |
- General rule
- Courtesy titles and academic and professional degrees within text
- Standing alone without a name
- First, subsequent references
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| Titles (other) |
- Books, television shows, movies, radio programs, plays
- Articles in magazines or newspapers
- Academic papers, dissertations, grant proposals, theses
- CDs, musical compositions, songs
- Lecture series, conferences, lectures, speeches
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| United States |
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| University |
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| University Publications |
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| University Seal/Signature |
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| Washington D.C. |
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| Way/Ways |
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| Web Site, World Wide Web |
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| Who/Whom |
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| Years |
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Appendices
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Appendix 1:
Commonly Misused Words |
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Appendix 2:
Commonly Misspelled Words |
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Appendix 3:
School, College, and Campus Abbreviations |
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Appendix 4:
Postal Information and State Abbreviations |
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Appendix 5:
UPMC Hospitals |
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Appendix 6:
Department of University News and Magazines Exceptions |
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| Top Tips for Good Writing |
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| Official list of names for
University departments, offices, programs, and schools |
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