COMMON GRAMMATICAL, PUNCTUATION & SPELLING ERRORS
- Advisor, not adviser
- African-American hyphenated; Asian American (no hyphen); Native American (no hyphen)
- Alumnus: one male graduate
- Alumna: one female graduate
- Alumnae: two or more female grads
- Alumni: two or more male or mixed-gender grads; avoid “alumnae/i
- alumni association: capitalize only when “Union College” precedes it
- B.A., B.S., M.A.: include periods
- bachelor’s degree: lowercase
- board of trustees: capitalize only when “Union College” precedes it
- chair: not chairwoman, chairman, or chairperson
- Class of 2008 (not Class of ’08)
- Committee: capitalize only in full name, e.g., the Curriculum Committee
- course work: two words
- emeritus, emerita, emeriti: no italics; directly follows the word “professor”
- every day two words unless used as an adjective—
e.g., “an everyday event” - first-year student: hyphenated as a compound adjective
- freshman: when possible, avoid
- Latino, Latina
