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- Adviser: Use adviser not advisor. Alumnus, singular male; alumna, singular female; alumni, plural for all alumni or male alums; alumnae, plural female.
- Use a.m./p.m. Not AM or PM, nor am or pm.
- Annual: an event is not annual until it has been held at least two successive years. There is no first annual event.
- Catalog: Use catalog not catalogue.
- Chair: Use chair, not chairman, chairwoman, chairperson. Capitalize before a name.
- Colleges, schools and departments are capitalized: College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities; Alumni Association, etc.
- Course titles are capitalized and italicized, i.e., COMM101: Fundamentals of Speech Communication . Do not abbreviate course titles (exceptions: Intro. or Fund).
- Daylight-saving time: Not savings. Note the hyphen. Lowercase in all uses.
- Degrees: Readers are usually familiar with degrees. Avoid abbreviations depending on your material and target audience. Use a phrase such as โJane Doe, who has a doctorate [or, PhD] in entomology…..โ rather than โJane Doe, PhDโ Use an apostrophe in associateโs degree, bachelorโs degree, masterโs degree. Use BA, BS, MA and PhD only if the preferred form is cumbersome.
- Email: not e mail, e-mail, E-mail
- Festivities: Great Lake State Weekend, Hall of Fame, Parentโs Weekend are all capitalized. Internet: Always capitalize Internet.
- Lake Superior State University: first reference always in its entirety, then LSSU or Lake Superior State. Do not use L.S.S.U. (with periods).
- Laker hockey: not Laker Hockey, Laker Basketball, etc.
- Laker Log: the alumni magazine. Capitalize and italicize, but do not put in quotation marks.
- Mackinaw vs. Mackinac: it is always Mackinaw Trail (the highway in the Eastern Upper Peninsula), Mackinaw City and the icebreaker U.S. Coast Guard Mackinaw . A specific style of winter coat is a Mackinaw. All other uses of the word are spelled Mackinac , including the island, the bridge, the county and The Mackinac Center.
- Numerals: spell out one through nine; beginning with 10, use numerals. Exception: when referring to someoneโs age, always use numerals.
- Seasons: fall, winter, spring, summer (no caps). Semesters: fall semester, spring semester (no caps).
- State/federal: state not State government, and federal not Federal government (unless used in a proper noun, i.e., Federal Bureau of Investigation).
- Theater: Use theater not theatre (unless part of a proper name).
- Titles: lower case, and spell out titles when not used with an individualโs name: โThe dean provided a list of students.โ Capitalize and spell out titles when they precede a name: โDr. Thomas Pleger, the president at LSSU.โ Use the lower case when the title appears a ft er a name: โThomas Pleger, president.โ
- University: use an initial capital โUโ when referring to Lake Superior State University, e.g., โThe University issued a strategic plan.โ
- Upper Peninsula: Always capitalize Eastern Upper Peninsula or EUP after the first reference.
- Web/Internet: When posting the LSSU home page, the address should appear as: www.lssu.edu