Interuniversity Style Guide for Writing Institutional Texts in English

Abstract

The Interuniversity Style Guide for Writing Institutional Texts is designed for use by the administrative, teaching and research staff and language professionals who are responsible for writing institutional texts in English. Loosely modelled on existing style manuals, this guide is organised into sections dealing with spelling, punctuation, capitalisation, abbreviations and symbols, numbers, gender, singular and plural, translation, writing in English, tools for digital text production and model documents. It also contains three appendices: common abbreviations, unusual plural forms and Latin terms with English equivalents.

We trust that the guidance and recommendations provided within these pages will be of help to anyone who has the task of preparing English-language texts and that this guide will become part of daily working life for many.