Commas, colons and capitalisation: the best style guides | Contentious. Consistency and clarity of language are as important in a world of 140 characters as they were in the time of Gutenberg. For most charities, maintaining your own editorial style guide is unnecessary when there are such good ones online that you can use. You may also find that while office pedants will doggedly disregard your professional experience and expertise for the sake of a favourite acronym, they will bow to the judgement of an outside authority.
Politically neutral, fulsome and clearly explained, the BBC’s reliable-but-slightly-dull style guide is updated often and covers a wide range of relevant language. The fully searchable guide is a Word document, strangely. Visit BuzzFeed BuzzFeed have a main guide with lots of detailed advice, particularly on topics such as social media, but it is a little unwieldy to use. Visit The Economist Visit Gov.uk With an authority that’s hard to argue with, the government’s own style guide is accessible and straightforward. Visit The Guardian Visit Visit. 5 useful online journals for ELT professionals. A blog reader requested this post about the best online ELT journals so we were very happy that Florentina Taylor agreed to write it for us. More reader requests always welcome!
Having been invited to recommend ‘the best ELT journals…, maybe a top 5 list’, I will do my best to explain why the following are, in my opinion, great resources for ELT professionals. Such a list will always be a subjective compilation dependent on personal preference, work context, accessibility and the reasons for accessing (and recommending) the respective journals. I’m hoping this will, nevertheless, answer the question. You can find an objective journal ranking tool at the end of this post. This small selection, listed here in no particular order, includes only peer-reviewed journals published in English, with at least some open access content that is likely to be of interest to ELTjam readers.
ELT Journal (subscription, with some open access) TESL-EJ (open access) L2 Journal (open access) Other resources.
English for the Workplace: Doing Patient-Centred Care in Medical Communication | Dahm | TESL Canada Journal.