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• Introduction 2 • What to call us 2 • School Board 2 • Abbreviations 3 • Capitalization 3 Official Names 3 Governmental bodies 3 Titles 4 Academic degrees 4 Committees 4 Departments 4 Nationalities and races 4 • Grammar 5 Collective nouns 5 Noun/pronoun agreement 5 • Numbers 5 Money 6 Ages 6 Decades and centuries 6 Room numbers 6 Dates and years 6 Times 6 Fractions 6 • Punctuation 7 Apostrophes 7 Brackets 7 Colons 7 Commas 8 Dashes 8 Ellipses 8 Exclamation points 8 Hyphens 8 Parentheses 9
Periods 9
Question marks 9
Quotation marks 15 Semicolons 10 Slashes 10 • Nonsexist writing 11
What to do with he and his 11
And then there’s he/she him/her 11
And man 11
Occupational titles 11
A few more words 12 Salutations 12 Correspondence 12 • Writing clearly 13
Jargon 13
Active voice 13
Strong verbs 13
Redundancies 13
Use shorter words 14 Use fewer words 14 That or or which who who or or whom 14 • Publication requirements 15 EEO statement 15 Brevard Public Schools logo 15 Official Seal 15 Letters vs memos 15 Personal Assistance Request statement 16 Publication approval 16 • District Publications 17 • E-mail Etiquette 18 • Telephone & Voice Mail Etiquette 18 • S-p-e-l-l-i-n-g 19 • Acronyms and abbreviations 20 • References 24
Brevard Brevard Style Style was produced by the Brevard Brevard Public Schools Office of Government and and Community Relations and and is based on on Orange County Style Style a a a a a a publication developed by Orange County Public Schools Special thanks to to the OCPS Employee Communications Division for permission to to use materials from Orange County Style (2016) The School Board of Brevard County Florida does not discriminate in in in admission or or or or access to or or or or treatment or or or or employment in in in its programs and ac- tivities on on on on on the the basis of race color religion age sex sex sexual orientation national origin marital status handicap or or or or any other reason prohibited by law District administrators responsible for for Equal Opportunity compliance for for students and/or employees may be contacted at at (321) 633-1000 12 CONTENTS