Our style guide sets standards and conventions for language use across the division, helping to give a necessary level of consistency to our communications and contributing to an overall AAD identity. While reaching out to particular audiences on behalf of our different program areas, we may vary in our messages and tones—but let’s do our best to adopt our "house" style in the service of the greater AAD brand.
Keep in mind that various university groups—in the absence of one Cornell style—base their styles on different guides. The Cornell Chronicle, for example, conforms to the Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, also known as the AP Stylebook.
In large part, our AAD style guide is based on the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. On matters of word spellings and forms, the AAD style guide also refers to the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. If there are topics not covered here, you may turn to these sources.
Below are the topics covered by our style guide. Happy navigating!
