Editorial/Style Guide/Glossary
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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
- 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