This style guide is intended to offer guidelines on general rules of the English language and the UCAS house style.
Access the house style guidelines for each topic in an A-Z format.
View a list of commonly used terms and how they should be written.
Read the Plain English Campaign's guidelines on grammar.
View a list of words that are easily misused or confused with others.
This brief guide looks at how to make writing clearer, with tips on sentence length and structure.
Find hundreds of plain English alternatives to decorative language that can clutter writing and obscure its clarity.
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