Park & Ride
- Park & Ride - not Park and Ride.
part-time
- Include hyphen
percentages
- % not per cent.
- Always use figures with percentages, eg The survey showed that 7% of students did not agree.
phone numbers
- No hyphens, and spacing as follows, eg +44 (0) 1865 484848.
- Use international numbers for website and wherever publications, stationery etc could be seen by overseas.
- No need to use ‘Tel’ before the number.
- For internal extension numbers use x4458 (not ‘x 4458’ or ‘ext. 4458’).
place names
See Names and places
plain English
- Lower case ‘plain’ and upper case ‘English’ unless in a title, eg the Plain English Campaign.
- All content on Oxford Brookes’ websites should be written in plain English.
- Gov.uk has a useful list of words you should avoid.
postnominals
See Terms of address
programmes
See Courses
pronouns
- Refer to your target audience as you, even if there are lots of them (never 'some of you' which gives an impersonal tone).
- For the University or your department, use we and our, eg We proudly support a range of sports at national level and Our many thriving team sports include...
- Use they to cover both genders, eg When you are briefing each student, make sure they know the deadline.
- Beware of mixing pronouns, eg When I started work you really had to watch out for any mistakes one might make.
proper names
See Capitalisation
punctuation
See Apostrophes, Colons, Commas, Hyphens, Quotations, Semicolons
PGCE (postgraduate certificate in education)
- All upper case
PGCert (postgraduate certificate)
- Lower case ‘ert’
PGDip (postgraduate diploma)
- Lower case ‘ip’
PhD
- Lower case ‘h’
postgraduate
- No hyphen
practice/practise
- practice (noun)/practise (verb)
Pro Vice-Chancellor
- Include hyphen