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  • How to Use This Style Guide
  • Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • Academic Degrees
  • Bullets
  • Capitalization
  • Fonts
  • Formatting
  • Numbers
  • Punctuation
  • Titles
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  • Acronyms Commonly Used in the College of Engineering
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Table of Contents

  1. Abbreviations and Acronyms
  2. Academic Degrees 
    1. In Text
    2. In General Reference
    3. In Specific Reference
    4. In Parenthetical Reference
  3. Bullets
    1. Shape
    2. Capitalization
    3. Punctuation
  4. Capitalization
    1. University
    2. College
    3. Department
    4. Plurals
    5. Internet
    6. Web
    7. Titles
  5. Fonts
    1. In Computer-Generated Manuscripts
      1. For body copy
      2. For headings
    2. In Print
      1. For body copy
      2. For heads, subheads and, occasionally, very short blocks of text
  6. Formatting
    1. Address blocks for Letters and Envelopes
  7. Numbers
    1. Above or below 10
    2. In tables, charts and graphs
    3. In proper names
    4. Percent
      1. In text
      2. In tables, charts and graphs
    5. Dates
      1. In text
      2. In tables, charts and graphs
    6. Ordinals
    7. Comma
    8. Time
      1. Noon and midnight
      2. Hours and minutes
      3. Redundancy
  8. Punctuation
    1. Apostrophe
      1. In dates
      2. In Plurals
      3. With "s"
    2. Bullets
      1. Shape
      2. Capitalization
      3. Punctuation
    3. Comma
      1. Serial Comma
    4. Dashes and Hyphens
      1. In compound title
      2. To avoid confusion
    5. Period
    6. Slash
    7. Telephone Numbers
      1. Format
  9. Titles
    1. Capitalization
    2. Abbreviation
    3. Placement
    4. Plurals
    5. Honorary titles
      1. Italics
      2. "The"
  10. General Grammar and Usage
    1. A
      1. Alumnus, alumni, alumna, alumnae
      2. Affect, effect
    2. E
      1. Effect, affect
      2. Email
      3. Emeritus, emeriti, emerita, emeritae
    3. F
      1. Faculty
    4. G
      1. Grade Point Average
    5. I
      1. I and Me
    6. O
      1. Online
    7. S
      1. Seasons
    8. T
      1. That and which
    9. U
      1. Use, utilize
    10. W
      1. Website
  11. Acronyms Commonly Used in the College of Engineering
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