Symbols

$

%

&

he/she, (s)he, his/hers

a lot

a.m.: abbreviating

abbreviations: addresses

abbreviations: articles

abbreviations: commonly used expressions

abbreviations: defining

abbreviations: group or organization names

abbreviations: periods

abbreviations: plural form

abbreviations: states

abbreviations: time designations

abbreviations: titles

abbreviations: United States

abbreviations: weights and measures

abbreviations: zip codes

academic departments: capitalizing

accept/except

accessible/assessable

acknowledgment

acronyms

acronyms: articles

acronyms: plural form

Act: capitalizing

active voice

additional information: commas

addresses: abbreviating

addresses: commas with

adjectives: commas between

adverse/averse

affect/effect

African American

age

age discrimination

ages: writing

agreement: subject and verb

AIDS

alignment

alot

alterations in quotations: brackets

alterations in quotations: ellipses

American Indian

among/between

ampersand

and also

and/or

and: comma with

and: comma with in a series

AP Stylebook

apostrophe with indefinite pronouns

apostrophe: placement

apostrophes

apostrophes in nouns with two or more parts

apostrophes with plural nouns

apostrophes with possessive pronouns

apostrophes: showing joint ownership

appositives: commas with

appraise/apprise

apprise/appraise

argument

articles

as

as best as

as per

as to whether

as well as

assessable/accessible

assure/insure/ensure

attribution

averse/adverse

awards: capitalizing

bachelor's degree

basically

being as

being that

between/among

biannually/semiannually

billion, trillion, million

bimonthly/semimonthly

Black

blind

brackets

brand names: capitalizing

building names: capitalizing

capitalization: academic departments

capitalization: awards

capitalization: brand names

capitalization: circuit

capitalization: Code

capitalization: Commonwealth

capitalization: Congress

capitalization: Constitution

capitalization: Court

capitalization: defined terms

capitalization: departments in an organization

capitalization: descriptions of people

capitalization: directions

capitalization: Earth

capitalization: events

capitalization: Federal

capitalization: first word of each item in a displayed list

capitalization: first words in titles and headings

capitalization: first words of direct quotations

capitalization: first words of sentences

capitalization: geographic regions

capitalization: God

capitalization: Government

capitalization: government agencies

capitalization: headlines

capitalization: highways

capitalization: holidays

capitalization: hyphenated proper names

capitalization: Internet and Web

capitalization: Judge

capitalization: nationalities

capitalization: nicknames

capitalization: nouns preceding numbers

capitalization: party designations

capitalization: person's title

capitalization: points of the compass

capitalization: political parties

capitalization: positions and titles

capitalization: proper names

capitalization: races

capitalization: religions

capitalization: roads

capitalization: sacred writings

capitalization: seasons

capitalization: seasons of the year

capitalization: signs and notices

capitalization: State

capitalization: television shows

capitalization: Term

capitalization: titles

capitalization: titles and headings

capitalization: wars

capitalization: word after a colon

capitalization: words derived from proper nouns

capitalizing: Act

capitalizing: Capitol

capitalizing: people in high offices

capitalizing: specific people or agencies

capitalizing: specific people, places, and things

Capitol: capitalizing

captions

captions: tense

car pool

catalog

catalogue

censor/censure

censure/censor

Central American

checklist for proofreading

Chicago Manual of Style

Chicana

Chicano

Circuit: capitalizing

citation

cite sources

city of

Code: capitalizing

collective nouns: agreement with verb

collective nouns: pronouns referring to

colon: capitalizing first word after

colons

comma: between two adjectives

comma: in a series

comma: joining sentences with and, but, or, or nor

comma: setting off a word or phrase renaming the noun

comma: with appositives

commas with quotation marks

commas: between unrelated numbers

commas: in numbers with four or more digits

commas: separating transitional expressions

commas: setting off additional information

commas: to avoid confusion

commas: with contrasting elements

commas: with dates and addresses

commas: with introductory words and phrases

commitment

common/mutual

commonly used expressions: abbreviating

Commonwealth: capitalizing

complement/compliment

compliment/complement

compound adjectives

compound words

compose/comprise

comprise

comprise/compose

comprised of

computations

confusing word pairs

Congress: capitalizing

consecutive/successive

consensus

consequently joining sentences

considered to be

Constitution: capitalizing

continual/continuous

continuous/continual

contrasting elements: commas with

convince

copyright: Web

Court: capitalizing

dash

dash and hyphen

dash: em dash

dash: en dash

data

data base

database

dates

dates: commas with

days

days or months: abbreviating

decimals: write in numbers

deductible

defined names

defined names

defined names: checking

defined names: using consistently

defined terms: capitalizing

defined terms: spelling consistently

degrees

deletions in quotations: brackets

deletions in quotations: ellipses

departments in an organization: capitalizing

dependent

descriptions of people: capitalizing

diabetes

disabilities

disabled

disc

discrete/discreet

discrete/discreet

discrimination: sexual orientation

diseases

disk

distinct/distinctive

distinctive/distinct

doctor

doctor's degree

documenting sources

dollars

double quotation marks

Dr.

due to the fact that

e.g.

each and every

Earth: capitalizing

effect/affect

ellipses

ellipsis

em dash

e-mail

E-mail

e-mail addresses

embarrass

emminent/imminent

emphasis: italics

en dash

ending direct questions

ensure/assure/insure

equally as

essentially

etc.

ethnic groups: hyphenation

ethnic names

events: capitalizing

every day

everyday

ex officio

exceedingly/excessively

except/accept

excessively/exceedingly

existence

fax

federal

Federal: capitalizing

fewer/less

figuratively

firstly

font

foreign words and phrases

foreign words: italics

foreword

foreword/forward

format: proofreading

forward/foreword

fractions

fragment sentences

full time

fund-raising

gender neutrality

generic names

gentleman

geographic regions: capitalizing

gerunds: pronouns before

God: capitalizing

got

government agencies

Government: capitalizing

gray

grey

group names: abbreviating

had ought

hadn't ought

harass

hard copy

he/she

headings: capitalization

headlines

high school

highways: capitalizing

his/hers

Hispanic

holidays: capitalizing

home page

however joining sentences

however: commas with

hyphen and dash

hyphen: ex officio

hyphen: high school

hyphen: high tech

hyphen: Mexican American

hyphenated proper names: capitalizing

hyphenation: ethnic groups

hyphens: African American

hyphens

hyphens: nationalities and races

i.e.

if/whether

imminent/emminent

impediment/obstacle

imply/infer

in house

in order to

in regard to

in terms of

inadvertent

indefinite and round numbers

indefinite pronouns: apostrophe placement

indentation

indenting quotations

indexes/indices

Indian

indices/indexes

indispensable

infer/imply

information superhighway

inserting corrections

insure/assure/ensure

interdisciplinary

interesting

Internet

internet

Internet: capitalization

intranet

introductory words and phrases: commas with

irregardless

Islam

italics or quotation marks

italics: abbreviations

italics: acronyms

italics: books and periodicals

italics: ex officio

italics: foreign words and phrases

italics: foreign words, titles, emphasis

italics: movie names

its: apostrophe

joining sentences: semicolons

Judge: capitalizing

judgment

just

justification

kind of

lady

landmark

Latin American

Latina

Latino

less/fewer

letter format

liaison

license

list items: semicolons

lists: capitalization of items

literally

lowercase

mankind, man

margins

marketplace

master plan

master's degree

media

medium

metric

Mexican

Mexican American

Mid-South

Midwest

million, billion, trillion

MLA Style Manual

money

money: writing

Moslem

Mother Nature

movie names

Muslim

mutual/common

names: first and last

names: spelling out

nationalities

nationalities: capitalizing

Native American

nature

necessitate

newspaper names

nicknames: capitalizing

non-

non-discrimination statement: longer

non-discrimination statement � one-line version

non-sexist writing

noon

notices of events

nouns preceding numbers: capitalizing

numbered items: proofreading

numbers beginning sentences

numbers: ages

numbers: commas between

numbers: commas with

numbers: indefinite and round

numbers: street

numbers: sums of money

numbers: telephone

numbers: trillion, billion, million

numbers: with symbols and abbreviations

numbers: writing decimals

numbers: writing out one through nine

objective case for pronouns with infinitives

objective case when pronoun is object of a preposition

objective case with pronouns

obstacle/impediment

occasion

occurrence

on account of

online

only

onscreen

or or nor: verbs with

ordinals

organization names: abbreviating

orientate

otherwise joining sentences

ownership: showing

p.m.: abbreviating

page numbers

paragraphs: indenting

parentheses

parentheses: enclosing numbers

part time

party designations: capitalizing

passive voice

per

percent

periodicals

periods with quotation marks

periods in abbreviations

periods: United States

perseverance

personal style sheet

person's title: capitalizing

persuade

Ph.D.

phone numbers: punctuation

plural nouns: apostrophes

plurals of abbreviations and acronyms

plus

point in time

points of the compass: capitalizing

political parties: capitalizing

positions: capitalizing

possessives before gerunds

post-

pre-

precede/proceed

prepositions ending sentences

prerogative

previous

prime ' and double prime "

principal/principle

principle/principal

prior to

privilege

problem solving

proceed

proceed/precede

pronoun is object of a preposition: objective case

pronoun: following form of to be

pronoun: subjective case

pronouns with gerunds

pronouns: collective nouns

pronouns: objective case

pronouns: objective case with infintives

proofreader's marks

proofreader's role

proofreading

proofreading area

proofreading errors

proofreading for format

proofreading in stages

proofreading mindset

proofreading tools

proofreading: comparing documents

proofreading: computer screen

proofreading: letters and numbers

proofreading: numbered items

proofreading: omitted words or sentences

proofreading: preparing for

proofreading: procedure

proofreading: spelling

proofreading: style manual

proofreading: transposed letters

proofreading: typing errors

proofreading: using a checklist

proofreading: using dictionaries

proper names: proofreading

publications: quotation marks or italics

published work titles

punctuation: type style

quarters

question marks

quite

quotation marks

quotation marks or italics

quotation marks: around words or expressions

quotation marks: books and periodicals

quotations

quotations: indenting

race names

races

races: capitalizing

re-

really

reason is because

reason why

religions: capitalizing

roads: capitalizing

rooms: capitalizing

round numbers

sacred writings: capitalizing

seasons

seasons of the year: capitalizing

secondly

semiannually/biannually

semicolon with therefore, however, otherwise, consequently, or thus

semicolons in lists

semicolons: joining sentences

semimonthly/bimonthly

sentence fragments

separate

set up

setup

sexist language: mankind, man

sexual orientation

shortened names

showing ownership

sic

signs and notices

since

single quotation marks

so as to

sort of

sources: documenting

South American

spacing

spacing after colons

spacing before the first parenthesis

spacing between sentences

Spanish

spans of decades

spell checker

spelling proper names: proofreading

spelling: names

spelling: proofreading

split infinitives

state abbreviations

state of

State: capitalizing

states: abbreviating

stereotypes

streets

Strunk and White

style manual

style sheet: personal

stylebook sources

subject/verb agreement

subject/verb agreement with or or nor

subject/verb agreement: collective nouns

subject/verb agreement: with there or here

subjective case with pronouns

subjects joined by or or nor

subjects joined by and: number

successive/consecutive

supersede

suppose to

symbols with abbreviations

symbols with numbers

telephone numbers

television shows

tense

Term: capitalizing

the: in books and periodicals

theater

theatre

their for singular

theirs: apostrophe

there or here: subject/verb agreement

therefore joining sentences

thirdly

thru

thus joining sentences

thusly

til

time designations: abbreviating

time of day

time zones: abbreviating

time, date, place

titles (people): capitalizing

titles: abbreviating

titles: capitalization

titles: italics

titles: published works

totally

toward

trademarks

transitional expressions: with commas

transposed letters

transpositions

try and

type style of punctuation

United States

uppercase

URLs

used to

USPS abbreviations

utilize

verb when subjects are joined by and

verb with or or nor

very

wars: capitalizing

Web

Web addresses

Web site

Web: capitalization

website

weights and measures: abbreviating

who and whom

whoever and whomever

whether/if

whether/whether or not

withhold

word division

word division: abbreviations

word division: acronyms

word division: addresses

word division: contractions

word division: dates

word division: deciding where

word division: numbers

word division: person's name

word division: proper names

word division: words that must be read together

word processor

words derived from proper nouns: capitalizing

workforce

workload

workplace

workstation

World Wide Web

would of

writing out one through nine

zip codes: abbreviating