Accessibility is a shared responsibility across the course development team. Editors play an important role in ensuring that course materials are clear, usable, and accessible for all learners. Although editors are not responsible for creating accessible media or remediating complex documents, they should identify potential issues and communicate them to the appropriate team members. Editors…
Dr. Gregory Younging published Elements of Indigenous Style in 2018. This year a new edition has been published by Brush Education: https://brusheducation.ca/brush-catalogue/p/elements-of-indigenous-style-2e This video is a recording of the book launch with editors Warren Cariou and Lorena Fontaine (2025). Amy Haagsma of West Coast Editors wrote a book review and description of the changes: https://westcoasteditors.com/elements-of-indigenous-style-continuing-the-conversation/ The first…
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,
Use bold, not asterisks, to indicate answers for a quiz or exam.
Spring is here! Thank you for your patience while I play with this new colour feature in WordPress. What Is a Style Sheet? The most basic tool for editing, and one of the most practical, is a style sheet. Most of the time the editor creates this and shares it with others. A style sheet…
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…
This post captures changes to our editorial house style following a meeting on Feb. 9, 2018. Attributions and Credit Lines Attributions in a course might appear in a resources list (at the beginning of the module), in the learning activity that assigns the reading or media (within the module), in a title page (created…
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…
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…
The relative pronoun “which” can be singular or plural. Conjugate the verb to match the antecedent (noun or nouns, or noun phrase or phrases) that the pronoun replaces. In a multiple-choice question stem, the antecedent often appears as the answer (or answers) to the question. This means we conjugate the verb depending on the number…