Main Index

A
Abbreviations
	and acronyms and apostrophes and numbers and parentheses and periods and spaces and state designations and units of measurement at sentence beginnings at sentence endings list of (.pdf) of metric units of time periods of titles spelling out symbol forms of unfamiliar with fractions with hyphens
Academic degrees in signature
	blocks
Accent Accept Acronyms
	and apostrophes and parentheses spelling out
Active/Passive Sentences Active voice Adapt/Adept/Adopt Addresses
	and commas
Adjacent Adverse Advice/Advise Affect Aligning decimals in tables Allusion Alternate/Alternative Among And, comma before Antecedents
	agreeing with pronouns
Anyone/Any one Apostrophes Appendices/attachments Approximations Ascent/Assent Assure Attachment notations Attention line in letters Average sentence length Averse Axis and axis labels
B
Bar charts Between Biannually/Biennially Bimonthly Block letters Boldface Brackets
C
Can Capitals Capital/Capitol Capitalization:
	after a colon or dash for emphasis in attention lines in hyphenated titles and expressions in reference initial lines in subject lines of document titles of common nouns of direction names of geographical areas of headings of names of officials of signature block of special notations on envelope addresses
Captions
Carat/Caret Cases of pronouns cc Charts Cite Clauses Closings to letters Colons
	in letter elements in memo elements
Color Columns
	in tables of numbers
Commas
	as emphasis devices in a series in complimentary closings in lists in salutations separating adjectives separating complete thoughts separating introductory phrases separating items in addresses and dates separating nonessential phrases and clauses separating titles and degrees from names with coordinating conjunctions with quotation marks with transitional words
Common nouns Complement/Compliment Complete thoughts, separating Complex sentences Complimentary closings in letters
Compose Compound sentences Comprise Conjunctions Conterminous/Contiguous Context, quoting in e-mail Continual/Continuous Conciseness Continuation pages in letters
	headings for
Continuation pages in memos (.pdf)
	headings for (.pdf)
Contractions and apostrophes
Council/Counsel/Consul Councilor/Counselor Courtesy copy notations
	in letters in memos
Credible/Creditable/Credulous
D
Dashes
	compared with parentheses and commas in lists
Date lines
Decimal point alighment in tables Delusion Dependent clauses Descriptive headings Diagrams Direct questions Directions, capitalization of Disburse Discreet/Discrete Disinterested Disperse Displayed lists Distribution lists in memos Divided words, hyphenation of Drawings
E
Effect Effective letter writing Effective visuals Elapse Email    Advantages    Etiquette Ellipses Eminent Emoticons Emphasis
	in active/passive sentences using a colon/semicolon for using dashes for using italics for using parentheses for
Enclosure notations Ensure Envelop/Envelope Envelopes Except
F
False subjects Farther/Further Fewer Flowcharts Foreign words and phrases
	italicizing of
Formats
	of letters of memos
Forward/Foreword Fractions
G
Gantt charts Gender distinctions Geographic areas
	capitalization of
Graphs Grid lines
H
Headings
	descriptive displayed for continuation pages in memos punctuation after run-in topical
Hyphens Hyphenation
I
Illusion Illustrations Imminent Imperative sentences Imply Indefinite pronouns Indentation Indicating omitted material Indirect questions Infer Initials, reference
	in letters in memos
Inserting thoughts into a sentence
Inside address in letters Insure Introducing lists Introductions Irregardless Italics Its/It's
J
Joining complete thoughts
K
Karat
L
Labeling
	of illustrations of maps
Lapse Later/Latter Lay/Laid/Laid Legends Length of sentences Less Letter (model documents) (.pdf)
	dissatisfaction informative persuasive recommendation second-request thank-you
Letterheads Lettering of lists Letters
	attention lines block complimentary closings continuation pages date lines effective enclosure notations envelopes formats of inside addresses letterheads margins modified block organization of postscripts punctuation styles in reference initials reference lines or blocks return addresses salutations semiblock signature blocks simplified spacing in special notations subject lines text
Lie/Lay/Lain Linking complete thoughts Lists
	and capitalization and colons and commas and dashes and parallelism and parentheses and periods and semicolons bulleted displayed emphasis of in memos (.pdf) numbering or lettering paragraph
M
Maps Margins in letters May Maybe, May be Measurement Memos
	attachment notation body of courtesy copy notation continuation page headings (.pdf) displayed lists in (.pdf) example of (.pdf) format of headings to length of organization of reference initials signature line
Metrics Model Documents Modified block letters
N
No. (for number) Nouns
	capitalization of common collective common possessive forms of
Numbering
	of appendices/attachments of lists
Numbers
	and abbreviations and apostrophes beginning a sentence with capitalization of hyphenated hyphenation of plurals of with lists writing out
Numerals
O
Objective case (of pronouns) Omitted words and apostrophes Omitted text and ellipses Open style punctuation Organization
	and appendices and paragraphs of letters of memos (.pdf) of e-mail
P
Paragraph lists Paragraphs
	cohesiveness within length of limiting to a single topic opening sentence to organization of single-sentence transitions between
Parallelism in lists Parentheses
	and acronyms and brackets and commas and dashes and lists and periods
Passive voice
	and emphasis and first person pronouns and transitions converting to active when to use
Percent signs Periods
	and abbreviations and courteous requests and run-in headings and lists and parentheses spaced with quotation marks
Personal pronouns Prepositions, capitalization of Photographs Phrases Pie charts Plurals
	and apostrophes of numbers subject-verb agreement of pronouns
Possesive case of pronouns Possessives
	and apostrophes of nouns of personal pronouns
Postscripts Practical/Practicable Precedence/Precedents Prefixes, hyphenation of Principal/Principle Pronoun agreement Pronouns
	agreeing with antecedents first person and passive sentences indefinite objective case of personal possessive case of subjective case of
Proper names, capitalization of Proper nouns Punctuation
	styles in letters
Q
Question marks
	with declarative sentences with quotation marks within parentheses
Quotation marks
	and end punctuation replacing italics with titles
Quotations
	capitalization of direct/indirect punctuating long
Quoting context in e-mail
R
Raise/Raised/Raised Ratios and colons Readability Redundant words Reference initials
	in letters in memos
reference lines or blocks
	in letters in memos (.pdf)
References
	and capitalization of certain common nouns in letters in memos to appendices/attachments to titles of published works
Regardless Repetition Respectfully/Respectively Return address
	in letters on envelopes
Rise/Rose/Risen Rows (in tables) Run-in headings
S
Salutations
	in letters
Sat Scales
	in maps in photographs
Semiblock letters Semicolons
	in lists with quotation marks
Semimonthly Sentence length Sentence structure Sentences
	active/passive
Separating adjectives Separating complete thoughts Separating introductory phrases Separating items in a list Separating items in dates and
	addresses
Separating nonessential phrases/
	clauses
Separating titles/degrees from
	names
Separating transitional words Series Set Sexist Language
	in salutations
Sight Signature blocks Signature lines Simple sentences Simplified letters Single quotation marks Single-sentence paragraphs Sit Site Spaces in abbreviations Spacing in letters
	examples of (.pdf)
Spacing on envelope addresses Special notations Standard punctuation Stationary/Stationery Strong verbs Subject lines Subjective case (of pronouns) Subordinate clauses
T
Tables Than/Then Their/There/They're Tick marks Time Titles
	capitalization of colons separating italics in of appendices/attachments quotation marks to indicate
To/Too Topical headings Toward/Towards Transitional words Transitions Two Type faces/styles
U
Underlining Uninterested Units of measurement
V
Verbs Visuals
	guiding principles for types of
W
Weak verbs White space Who/Whom Who's/Whose Word Problems Wordiness
X
X-axis
Y
Y-axis Your/You're
Z
Zeros