Editorial/Style Guide/Glossary

  Glossary     

To ensure consistency, accuracy, and clarity, the following spelling and standardized terminology lists have been developed.

 Standardized TRU-OL Spelling List 


 * acknowledgement
 * aging
 * anaesthetic
 * analyze
 * appendices
 * archaeology
 * audiovisual
 * axe
 * backup (n.)
 * behaviour
 * benefited
 * biased
 * birthdate
 * Blackboard
 * Blackboard Collaborate (not Elluminate)
 * cacti
 * café
 * catalogue
 * CD-ROM
 * cellphone
 * centimetre
 * centre
 * cheque
 * chlorophyll
 * clamour
 * colour
 * co-operate
 * coordinate
 * coordinator
 * counselled
 * counsellor
 * Course Guide
 * coursework
 * database
 * decision-making (attrib.)(adj.)
 * decision making (n.)
 * defence
 * demeanour
 * dialogue	disc (sound or video)
 * disk (computer)
 * draft
 * e-book
 * email
 * endeavour
 * enrol, enrolment
 * Enrolment Services
 * equalled
 * Exams Department
 * favour
 * fetus
 * fibre
 * focused
 * focuses (n. & v.)
 * formulas
 * fulfill
 * fulfillment
 * grey
 * Home Page (for our courses); home page
 * honour
 * humour
 * icon
 * imperilled
 * indexes
 * instalment
 * instill
 * Internet
 * jewellery
 * journalling
 * judgment
 * kilometre
 * labelled
 * left-hand
 * levelled	licence (n.)
 * license (v.)
 * lifestyle
 * likeable
 * livable
 * long-term (attrib.)
 * lustre
 * manoeuvre
 * marvellous
 * meagre
 * medieval
 * meter (instrument)
 * Metis
 * metre (measurement)
 * midterm
 * modelled, modelling
 * mould
 * naive, naïveté
 * neighbour
 * Net (Internet)
 * odour
 * offence
 * online (adj. & adv.)
 * Open Learning Faculty Member (not OLFM)
 * organize
 * paralleled
 * paralyze
 * percent
 * plow (n. & v.)
 * postwar
 * practice (n.)
 * practise (v.)
 * practice exam	pretense
 * program
 * prophecy (n.)
 * prophesy (v.)
 * realize
 * recognize
 * regroup
 * revisit
 * savour
 * self-test
 * short-term ((attrib.)
 * signalled
 * sizable
 * skilful
 * smoulder
 * sombre
 * spectre
 * storey (building)
 * Student Handbook
 * sulphur
 * theatre
 * toward
 * tranquilize
 * tranquilizer
 * travelled
 * traveller
 * TRU-OL (use hyphen)
 * TRU-OL, Open Learning
 * tumour
 * usable
 * videoclip
 * videotape
 * vigour
 * web (Internet)
 * web browser
 * web page
 * website

'''This list conforms to The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, (2004), which we follow unless a course project team takes an alternate approach, for example, to be consistent with the main textbook used for a course. The editing team may also have revised the list to adapt to more modern usage. '''

''' Standardized Terminology '''


 * “Assignments” (for the link in the LMS, not Assignment File)
 * click (not “click on” or “clink on”)
 * Course Modules OR Course Units (but not both)
 * Course Guide (not Course Overview OR Course Manual (but not both)
 * Course Tools menu (not Course Menu area)
 * “Discussions” (not forum, area, board, or conference)
 * Distance Regional & Open Learning (DROL) Services (and no quotation marks, no hyphen after Regional)
 * “Following a citation trail” guide (as the title of the guide itself, not the link)
 * “Getting Started” (not “Getting Started with WebCT Guide”)
 * “Help” link or “Help” (not HELP button)
 * home page (two words, lowercase unless referring to course Home Page)
 * How Do I...? (Do is first-initial cap; question mark goes after ellipses)
 * IT Service Desk (not Help Desk, not IT service desk)
 * learning management system (not WebCT)
 * Library (when TRU Library) (not TRU-OL library)
 * “Mail” tool (instead of “mail in WebCT”)
 * Pack Slip (not Packing Grid)
 * PIN (not PIN number)
 * Student Handbook
 * TRU Library (not the TRU Library)
 * TRU-OL Social Sciences Guide
 * TRU Open Learning
 * Tutor Open Learning Faculty Member (not OLFM, Tutor, Facilitator, or Instructor)
 * Tutor Marked Assignment form
 * “View Attempt” not view results
 * “Web Links”
 * welcome letter (lowercase)
 * World Wide Web, but web
 * Other:
 * “Getting Connected to WebCT” is outdated (get rid of WebCT references)
 * There is no “WebCT Guide”
 * Italics for course names (after acronym and number)
 * Print info not needed, how to access course online info not needed
 * Think in terms of students viewing the info on a monitor: for example, change language such as “turn now to your Assignments File”

Recommendations:

Include, on the “Web Links” page, a link to TRU-OL Examinations (so students can plan) Include, on the “Web Links” page, a link to Submission Guidelines, as it is referred to constantly in some courses Include, on the “Web Links” page, a link to Grading Systems and Procedures Fix language in grading scale: for example, Grading Systems and Policies is called Grading Systems and Procedures on the TRU web page