Newsletter No. 473

Information in this section can only  be accessed with CWEM password .  若要瀏覽本部分的資料, 請須輸 入 中大校園電子郵件密碼 。 No. 373, 4.3.2011 7 As the case may be The director of a respectable institution felt nonplussed when seeing the description of his title repeatedly in lower case in the newspaper (Mr. XYZ, director of ABC). While his reaction is understandable, he should find solace in knowing that at least the newspaper is doing its job by following the best practice in journalism. Authoritative style guides such as the Times Guide to English Style and Usage and The Chicago Manual of Styles prescribe lower cases for the generic element in a title when used alone. In the conjoined form of a title and a name, however, upper cases are recommended. Thus, ‘the president of the United States’ or ‘President Obama’. A few more examples, the dean of Columbia Business School; Dean Hubbard the chairman of the Board; Chairman Cheng the president of the Law Society; President Wong Although, as one journalism scholar puts it, this is more a matter of house style than absolute right or wrong, the practice is adopted by writers and editors throughout the world and can be found in the style guides of prestigious media including Thomson Reuters, The Economist and South China Morning Post . ISO always aspires to the world’s best standards. More at the link below: www.cuhk.edu.hk/iso/en/resource/useful_ref/editorial_guidelines.html Editor 人 事 動 態 PERSONALIA

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