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