Timeline for My University's communications office reserves "Dr" for MDs only - is this common?
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| Mar 30, 2017 at 18:35 | answer | added | David | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 30, 2017 at 15:05 | answer | added | StrongBad | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 22:41 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/847217076670476289 | ||
| Mar 29, 2017 at 21:12 | comment | added | Dave Harris | You need to think about who the audience is for a communications office, which is the press. The press strongly prefers you do things according to their style rules because they can take your work intact and print it without editing. Work that follows the AP style guide can be internationally relayed to English speaking countries via the Associated Press. It minimizes work for your customer and creates the possibility of international coverage. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 20:14 | comment | added | BrianH | The AP guide is commercial, so you'd have to buy access or get it through your institution perhaps, but this reading of the AP guide is supported in other places I've found: editdesk.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/doctor-style I'd rather a direct quotation/citation from the guide itself, but I don't have it. Here's the direct source for the guide: apstylebook.com | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 19:56 | comment | added | Anonymous Mathematician | It's the Associated Press Stylebook, which is a common guide to usage for journalists in the U.S. I'd bet the issue here is that the communications office thinks in terms of journalism, where it's not common to use "Dr." for anyone but physicians. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 19:47 | comment | added | mdd | What is "AP guide" in this context? | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 19:41 | history | edited | Federico Poloni | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 29, 2017 at 18:47 | history | asked | bcf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |