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Style Guide
L lay, lie – The action word is lay. It takes a direct object. Laid is the form for its past tense and its past participle. Its present participle is laying. Lie indicates a state of reclining along a horizontal plane. It does not take a direct object. Its past tense is lay. Its past participle is lain. Its present participle is lying. Lancers – the official name of Worcester State College’s athletic teams Languages and Literature Department/Department of Languages and Literature Latino Education Institute – may also use: Latino Education Institute, home of the Worcester Working Coalition for Latino Students Learning Resources Center – be sure to use the s
M master's degree - See academic degrees magazines/newspapers - Capitalize the name but do not place it in quotation marks. Lowercase magazine unless it is part of the publication’s formal title: Harper’s Magazine, Newsweek magazine. (Check the masthead if in doubt) Use italics to distinguish, i.e. I believe we were listed in College Bound magazine. See newspapers/magazines millions, billions - Use figures with million or billion in all except casual cases (I'd like to make a billion dollars). Decimals are preferred, but do not go beyond two decimals (7.51 million persons; 7,542,500 persons). Do not mix millions and billions in the same figure (2.6 billion not 2 billion 600 million). months - When a month is used with a specific date, abbreviate Jan., Feb., Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec. Spell out when using alone. (Jan.1, 2001; January 2001.) Multimedia Auditorium – located on the first floor in the Ghosh Center. Not Ghosh Auditorium.
N newspapers/magazines – Capitalize the name but do not place it in quotation marks Use italics to distinguish, i.e. The professor was quoted in the Telegram & Gazette. none – It usually means no single one. When used in this sense, it always takes singular verbs and pronouns: None of the orders was ready. Use a plural verb only if the sense is no two or no amount. None of the consultants agree on the same thing. North/South Auditorium – also use Student Center Auditorium numbers - Spell out one through nine, except in percentages (2 percent; .06 percent), money (6 cents, $2) and in millions (6 million). Spell out numbers at the beginning of a sentence. There is one exception - years: 1492 was the year Europeans discovered the Americas. Plural forms: Numbers like 3s get the s but no apostrophe. (The same rule applies to decades: The 1920s)
O office titles - No apostrophe (Dean of Student Development Office, Dean of Graduate and Continuing Education) on-campus/off-campus – when used together: The events will be held on- and off-campus. one time/one-time She read it one time. This is a one-time opportunity. on-line/online – use hyphen, unless used to mean connected to the Internet. off-line/offline – use hyphen, unless used to mean disconnected from the Internet. oriented – Do not use orientated. over, more than - Use over for spatial relationships; more than for amounts: There were more than 500 people in attendance. The banner will be over six feet.
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