Style Guide

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lady

  • Use woman.
  • See appendix 3, nondiscriminatory language.

 lecturer in

  • Lowercase and follow with subject area: He is a lecturer in economics.

 lectures

  • Capitalize the titles of lectures and put them in quotation marks. Do not italicize: Oliver Miles, distinguished visiting professor in Arabic studies, is giving a lecture, “What Ambassadors Actually Do.”
  • Do not capitalize adjectives that precede lectures: She delivered the third annual Arabic Public Lecture Series.

 less, fewer

  • Use fewer in reference to items that could be counted. Use less in reference to value, degree or amount: Fewer students were admitted this year. This winter was less rainy than last year.

 level

  • Hyphenate when level is part of a compound modifier: undergraduate-level courses.

 library

  • See names, libraries.

 lists

  • See bulleted series.