COBE Writing Style Guide

Introduction

The College of Business and Economics (COBE) Writing Style Guide is tool to help COBE students become skilled writers. Skilled writers effectively consider context, audience, purpose, tone, style and form, and understand the process of writing. This guide is not all-inclusive of the intricacies of English grammar and composition. Some components of this guide came from annual outcomes assessment projects and feedback from our business community. This guide concentrates on areas that may most benefit graduates in successfully integrating into the workforce.

Directions from your instructor and the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) — the accepted convention for business courses — will take precedence over the COBE Writing Style Guide.

The APA manual is available for reference at Albertsons Library and the Writing Center.

See the online Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition (2020).