NSU STYLE MANUAL 13 comma See the Guide to Punctuation and Usage on page 52. commit, commitment, committed Exercise care with these commonly misspelled words. communication, communications Generally, the singular form refers to ordinary conversational exchanges. • Had our communication been clearer, I would have understood her theory. The plural form refers to a field of study and appears in such adjectival phrases as communications program or communications major. • We offer a major in communications. companies See names of businesses. compose, comprise Compose means to make up, to form the substance of. • The United States is composed of 50 states. Comprise means to consist of, to include • The United States comprises (is made up of) 50 states. • A zoo comprises mammals, reptiles, and birds (because it is made up of or includes them). Per CMS, comprised of, though increasingly common, remains nonstandard; composed of is generally preferred. compound words When in doubt, look up individual entries in The Chicago Manual of Style’s hyphenation guide or in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Use a hyphen to separate a compound modifier that comes before the noun it modifies. • He was wearing a blue-green shirt. Adverbs ending in -ly do not take a hyphen. • First Look is a widely distributed university publication. computer terms (examples) • app • Canva • chatroom: one word • cybersecurity • cyberterrorism • database: one word • email • e-Learning (In running text, this is the format currently used for electronic or e- terms.) • homepage: one word • Internet service provider (ISP) • iPad • laptop: one word • listserv • log on • offline, online: no hyphens • PC: personal computer (plural: PCs) • PowerPoint • real time (n.); real-time (adj.) • Self-Service Banner (formerly WebSTAR) • smartboard, smartphone, smartwatch • the cloud • URL: uniform resource locator • videoconferencing • webcam • Wi-Fi • World Wide Web, the web, website, BUT web page See also the individual entries for many of these terms.
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