Late summer salutations, fellow communicators!

We’ve added a new tool to the communications kit: a webpage offering a handy guide to the most-often-used acronyms at the UO. Don’t know your ARCs from your ZIRCs? The UO Acronyms page is the place to be. But a note of caution: Don’t overdo the acronyms in your writing. Surveys have consistently shown that readers do not like being served an order of alphabet soup with their stories. The fewer acronyms, the better. I don’t know if it’s possible to have a writing world totally without acronyms, but I suspect it would be popular.

Also, we’re making a change to this blog; instead of posting a new one every month, we’ll publish them occasionally, as we have news to share or a batch of questions to answer. 

And finally, your esteemed editor Matt Cooper is turning the editorship of the Editorial Style Guide over to me. Prepare for scintillating posts on parallel structure, comma confusion, capricious capitalization, and much more!

Send your editorial style questions to editor Greg Bolt, University Communications.