INTERNAL - Faculty of Education Style Guide

Faculty of Education Style Guide 

Titles, Degree, and Class Citations 

• ConEd, BEd, DEd, MEd, PhD are the accepted abbreviations. Queen's doesn't use periods in degree abbreviations - we have changed our style guide to be consistent with the degrees across Queen's. 
• Plurals: ConEddies, ConEds, DipEds, MEds, PhDs
• The following are the correct ways to refer to alumus of the programs: 
  • Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education — Artsci/Ed’XX or ConEd’XX —  BA, BEd
  • Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Education — Artsci/Ed’XX or ConEd’XX — BSc, BEd
  • Bachelor of Education — Ed’XX — BEd
  • Concurrent Education — ConEd’XX  — BA/BEd, BSc/BEd, BMus/BEd
  • Doctor of Philosophy — PhD
  • Graduate Diploma in Education — GDE’XX — GDE
  • Graduate Diploma in Professional Inquiry — GDPI’XX — GDPI 
  • Master of Education — MEd’XX — MEd
  • Professional Master of Education — PME’XX — PME

Acronyms 

Acronyms can be alienating to an unfamiliar audience. As a result, we are working to remove acronyms from our website and communications. Please write out full names/titles. 

If you must use an acronym (e.g., in the case of documents aimed at an internal audience), write out the full name in the first reference, and in subsequent references use the acronym with no periods. 

• Write out Primary-Junior and Intermediate-Senior in all places. 
• In all external communications, write out the name of our programs every time. 
   

Capitals 

• “teacher candidate” is lowercase
• “summer, fall, winter, spring” are lowercase
• “Faculty” capitalized refers to the Faculty of Education, “faculty” in lowercase refers to faculty (as in faculty and staff).
• Capitalize full degree names; lowercase general terms (i.e. Bachelor of Education; bachelor’s degree; Master of Science; master’s degree)

Grammar 

• No double spaces at the beginning of a sentence.
• Use Canadian spellings (i.e., honour, colour, favourite)
• Use the Oxford comma (i.e., “One, two, and three” and not “One, two and three”.)
• The possessive apostrophe should only be used in cases where it shows ownership (i.e., “The TCs ate lunch.”  is correct – should NOT be: “TC’s”)