Brand
PSE logos, colors, fonts, and other brand assets can be found in this place.
What is the Brand folder in Google Drive?
This punctuation mark ALWAYS comes before the last item in a list.
What is an oxford comma?
Information from interviews, emails, or conversations should be cited in this way only.
What are in-text citations?
When the subject of a sentence is the recipient of the action.
What is passive voice?
Ideally, this is the number of ideas that should be communicated within a single sentence.
What is the number one?
This is the correct way to write our organization's name in the first mention within all external-facing materials.
What is PSE Healthy Energy (PSE)?
This symbol is used sparingly in order to emphasize a parenthetical comment.
What is an em dash?
Complicated concepts, equations, and long paragraphs do NOT belong in this place.
What are footnotes?
Describing research with “I” or “we.”
What is the first person?
Decarbonization, Fuel Switching, Produced Water, Toxic Insults, and Systematic Review are all examples of this.
What is jargon?
These types of publications do not follow PSE’s writing and style guide.
What are peer-reviewed publications?
Use this style of list to show a hierarchy.
What is a numbered list?
When citing a dataset that is still being collected, you should include this date.
What is an accessed (or retrieval) date?
The sentence "Climate change increases wildfires." is an example of this.
What is active voice?
Before you ever begin writing, you should consider who these people are, what matters to them, and where they get their information.
What is an audience?
All headings, titles, sections, and subsections should use this style of capitalization.
What is title case?
When a single sentence contains multiple lists that require commas, this punctuation should be used to separate the list sets.
What is a semicolon?
You can do this with a web address, DOI, or other link to save space in citations.
What is a hyperlink?
If a verb is plural then this must be true.
What is the subject is plural?
The sentence “Addressing methane leaks near populations increases emissions reductions public health cost-benefit.” is an example of what?
What is a noun string?
This standardized description of PSE is found in the style guide.
What is boilerplate?
In general, you may only use the percent (%) symbol in this kind of writing.
What is technical writing?
Papers require a reference list if there are more than this number of references.
What are 20 references?
In general, PSE uses this style of grammar.
What is American Psychological Association (APA)?
These expressions are often used to cram extra ideas into a sentence.
What is a parenthetical expression?