Pdf Style Flashcards
Academic departments
Lowercase except for words that are proper nouns or adjectives: the department of history , the history department, dont abbreviate department
Academic degrees
Avoid abbreviation and use instead a phrase such as: John Jones, who has a doctorate in Phycology.
Apostrophe in bachelor’s degree, a master’s, etc.
Use abbreviations as A.A., A.S., B.A., M.A., LL.D., and Ph.D., only wen you need to identify many people by degree; use abbrevations only after a full name and use commas
Addresses
Abbreviate: Ave., Blvd. and St. Only with a numbered adress, capitalize wen there isnt a adress number: Pennsylvania Avenue. Lowercase and spell out wen use alone or with more than one street name. spell out and capitalize First-Ninth when used as street names. 10th and above use two letter
Use periods for
P.O. For P.O. Box numbers
Affect/effect
Affect: a verb means to influence
Effect: as a verb means to cause, As a noun means result
Ages
Always use figures for people and animals, 15 years old, 5-years-old, 30s
A.m. P.m.
Lowercase, with periods. Noon and midnight stand alone
Apostrophe (‘)
Use to show possession. If word end with S put the apostrophe after the S
California
The abbrevation is Calif. when city is included, otherwise always spell out
Died
Use died not passed away
Held/hold
Held: only in the literal sense, Dont use held wen referring to events, conerts, conversations, etc.
It’s/its
It’s is a contraction for it is or it has
Its is the possessive form of the neuter a pronoun
Months
Capitalize the names in all use
Numerals
Sped out through 9 and 10 u right
Over
Used for spatial relationships
More than
More than 20$
