B

• Bachelor — degree (capitalise for specific degree reference)
• bachelor’s degree — not bachelors, bachelor degree courses (use lower case for generic reference)
• barbecue — not barbeque, preferred instead of BBQ
• before — not prior to, ahead of
• benefited — not benefitted
• bookshop — one word

C

• Career Development — two words (note: caps)
• carpark — one word
• CD-ROM — all caps, hyphenate
• childcare — one word
• committed — not commited
• computer-based — hyphenate
• cooperation — no hyphen
• coordinator — no hyphen
• coursework — one word
• CRC — Cooperative Research Centres
• CRICOS — Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students
• cross-disciplinary — hyphenate, note no hyphen in multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary

D

• Dean — initial capital
• decision-making — hyphenate (noun)
• DEEWR — Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
• dietitian — not dietician
• Doctoral — initial capital
• Dr — not Dr.

E

• e-commerce — or e-Commerce at the start of a sentence
• ecotourism — one word
• effect — is the noun, the result or cause of something else
• ELP — English Language Programs (when referring to the name of the department, otherwise English language programs)
• ELICOS — English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students
• email — not e-mail
• enrolled — not enroled
• enrolment — not enrollment
• enquiry — not inquiry
• ESOS — Education Services for Overseas Students
• except — not with the exception of

F

• faculty — lower case, but University of the Sunshine Coast Faculty of Business
• Faculty of Arts, Business and Law — never use an ampersand (&)
• Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering — never use an ampersand (&)
• Far North Queensland — region
• fast-track — hyphenate verb and adjective
• fee-based — hyphenate
• fee-paying — hyphenate
• few — not a small percentage of
• fieldwork — one word
• first-class — hyphenate adjective
• first class — noun, two words, no hyphen
• focused — not focussed
• fulfil — not fulfill
• full-time — hyphenate adjective ie full-time student
• full time — noun, two words, no hyphen ie to study full time

G

• Graduate Diploma — capitalise for specific degree reference, otherwise lower case
• government — lower case unless it is part of a name

H

• health care — two words
• HECS — Higher Education Contribution Scheme
• homepage — one word
• honour — not honor
• Honours — degree not program (proper University terminology is Bachelor Honours degree), capitalise

I

• IELTS — International English Language Testing System
• in-depth — hyphenate
• Indigenous — upper case in all uses of the word
• instalment — not installment
• internet/intranet — lower case

L

• lifelong — one word
• log-off — hyphenate
• log-on — hyphenate
• lower case – two words

M

• many — not numerous, a great number
• Master's — degree (capitalise for specific degree reference)
• master's degree – master's courses (use lower case for generic reference)
• mature-age — hyphenate (preferred term is alternative entry)
• MBA — Master of Business Administration
• mid-year — hyphenate, lower case
• more information — as opposed to further information
• most — not the majority of
• multicultural, multimedia — no hyphen

N

• NEAS — National ELT Accreditation Scheme
• north-east — hyphenate (direction lower case)
• now — not at the moment, at this point in time

O

• off campus — two words
• on campus — generally two words, but depends on context: on-campus — hyphenate adjective (ie, on-campus students)
• online — one word
• OP — Overall Position, stands on its own, not OP score
• OP ineligible — no hyphen

P

• paediatric — retain digraph
• part-time — hyphenate adjective (ie part-time study)
• part time — noun, two words, no hyphen (ie to study part time)
• percent — one word, do not use symbol (%) unless in a table
• PhD — do not punctuate as Ph.D
• pm — no punctuation and no space between the time and 'pm'
• PO Box — capitalise
• postgraduate — one word
• practice — noun: I do a lot of practice. Both doctors and lawyers have practices.
• practise — verb: I practise a lot. A doctor practises medicine.
• Pro Vice-Chancellor — hyphenate Vice-Chancellor, not Pro-Vice-Chancellor
• problem-solving — hyphenate (noun)
• Professor — never abbreviate to Prof.
• program — not programme

Q

• Qld – not QLD on letters
• QTAC — Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre

R

• re-apply — hyphenate
• resource-based — hyphenate

S

• school-leavers — hyphenate
• semester — but Semester 1, 2006
• ‘s’ not ‘z’ — eg, analyse not analyze
• shops — not retail outlets
• soon — not in the near future, shortly
• south-east — hyphenate (direction lower case)
• South East Asia — region (capitalise)
• South-East Queensland — region (capitalise and hyphenate)
• start — not begin
• STAT — Special Tertiary Admissions Test
• state — lower case when used on its own, capitalised in State Government
• statewide — one word
• Student visa — note: Cap “S” lower case “v”

T

• Targeted — not targetted
• TESOL — Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
• textbooks — one word
• thank you — two words, no hyphen
• time — 5.30pm, 9.27am, 6am (not 6.00am)
• timeframe — one word
• to — not in order to, with the intention of
• TOEFL — Test of English as a Foreign Language
• travelled — not traveled

U

• upfront — one word (adjective): upfront fees
• up-to-date — hyphenate adjective, but not hyphenated after verb (ie, keep up to date)
• use — not utilise (definitely not utilize)

V

Vice-Chancellor — hyphenate

W

• World Wide Web or Web — capitalise
• website — one word, lower case
• web page — two words, lower case
• weekdays — one word
• wellbeing — one word

Y

• Year — Year 12 student, not Grade 12, Cap ‘Y’, not hyphenated: Senior-phase students from Years 10-12 visited the campus