Spelling

• Consult Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary for spelling and word breaks. American spellings are preferred over British.
  
• Advisor, not adviser
  
• Alumna/alumnae; alumnus/alumni
  
• Catalog, not catalogue
  
• Classwork, not class work
  
• Computer terms: database, data file, debug, hard copy, input, log on, online
  
• Course work, not coursework
  
• Emerita/emeritae; emeritus/emeriti
  
• Curriculum vitae (singular); curricula vitae (plural); vita (informal)
  
• Ex-officio, with a hyphen
  
• Fund raising when used as a noun; fund-raising when used as an adjective
  
• In-depth, in-service when used as an adjective before the noun
  
• Multicampus
  
• Noncredit, not non-credit
  
• Nondegree, not non-degree
  
• Nonprofit, not non-profit
  
• Percent, not per cent
  
• University-wide but campuswide, citywide, nationwide, statewide
  
• World Wide Web, Web site, home page, Internet, Webmaster

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