Symbols

$
%
&
(s)he

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
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.
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
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
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