Michelle Terriss, TRU’s Law Librarian, co-created an open resource for Canadian legal citation. Canadian government or legal citation can be challenging to fit into academic style guides, and this open resource is a helpful guide for Canadian editors and writers.
The Canadian Open Access Legal Citation Guide (COAL-RJAL Guide) is freely available on CanLII,
Kudos to Mona Hall for researching and validating our house style! Ongoing PhD studies are not listed on the Copyright and Credits page of the course guide; therefore, do not include credentials such as: Title (year): Name, PhD(c) Title (year): Name, PhD(candidate) Title (year): Name, PhD(ABD) Title (year): Name, PhD(all but dissertation) See also APA’s The Misuse…
New process! Don’t include OL_Production on editing workflow emails. This refers to introductory emails (“I’ve begun editing…”) and the final emails (“files are in pre-production folder…”). Keep writing notes for Production on the files, and summarize any concerns in your final email to Curriculum Services. CS will send the notes to Production after sign-off.
Word files of the Course Guide template and the Open Learning Faculty Member template are available in O drive, 4 Editing Resources. Feel free to share the Word templates as a time-saver for developers. It may be quicker to fill-in or revise sections in a Word file compared to copying the information from this site…
We are changing our house style for the list of course developers on a copyright and credits page. Include the person’s terminal or highest credential only. Group the list by years of editions and revisions. Order the groups in reverse chronological order; i.e., most recent is at the top and earliest is at the bottom…
Our style guide formats bulleted or numbered lists with an introductory colon, a capital letter at the beginning of each listed item, and no punctuation at the end (unless the items in the list are complete sentences or they complete the sentence). If the list includes nouns, it might look like: Natural history Natural selection…
Heads up! I moved the Learning Outcomes section to appear before Course Materials in the Course Guide. Thanks for the feedback, Cory! This will group together key Curricunet information, and it could save a bit of time by aligning with Production’s processes.