Instructional Design Style Guide

This style guide follows the DETE style guide, which was derived from the Macquarie Dictionary and the Commonwealth Government Style manual.

Use Australian-English spelling throughout, not American-English. Select this link for the NEW Dete Style Guide

• Abbreviations
• Acronyms
• Active voice versus passive voice
• Activity headings
• American English versus Australian English
• Apostrophes
• Australian standards
• Bold
• Brackets
• Bullets and lists
• Capital letters
• Colons
• Commas
• Commonly misspelt words
• Commonly misused words
• Clear and concise
• Cliches
• Consistency
• Contractions
• Currency
• Dashes
• Dates
• Emphasis
• Ending in a preposition
• Ellipsis
• Equations
• Exclamation marks
• Full stops
• Forward slash
• Grammar, punctuation and formatting
• Heading Titles
• Hyphens
• Inclusive writing
• Italics
• Lead-in sentence
• Nouns versus verbs
• Numbers
• Objectivity
• Plain English (DET)
• Prefixes
• Presenting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
• Punctuation in quote marks
• Quote marks
• Readability
• Redundancy (DET)
• Review tips
• Semi colons
• Sentence structure
• SI Units
• Spelling
• Subject-verb agreement
• Tautologies
• Temperature
• Tense
• Time
• Titles and modes of address
• Tone
• Trade names