Style & Grammar Guide

Which is right?

  • Internet or internet?
  • Email or e-mail?
  • United States, U.S., or US?
  • Website or web site?
  • 7am, 7AM, 7 a.m., or seven ante meridian?

A Style Guide helps! You don’t have to rethink your choices for the myriad of minute decisions you might make while designing and writing for the web. A style guide helps you to stay consistent, no matter how huge the project. Style Guides spell out exactly how to write and punctuate words, phrases, abbreviations, numbers, etc., that you might question.

Students at Platt College agree on the following style guidelines.

7 vs. Seven

Affect vs. Effect

All Right vs. Alright

Among vs. Between

Criterion vs. Criteria

Data vs. Datum

Dates and Telephone Numbers

Dashes, Hypens and Colons

Google (verb)

Internet

Internet Lingo

Latin Phrases

login

Numbers: 7 vs. Seven

Swear Words in Text

Telephone Numbers and Dates

There, Their, They’re

Twitter vs. Tweet

Students at Platt College agreed not to accept the following as guidelines. However, the author of the guideline gave an excellent argument for his stance.

apostrophe sux

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