Lists and Bullet Points
How to appropriately use lists and bullet points in your writing as a SAIT employee.
Use numbered lists when you’re working with instructions to be done in sequence or the numbers suggest a hierarchy or process (for example, a list outlining how to register). The same applies when referring to specific items by number.
If numbers aren’t essential, use bullet points.
Bullet points are a great way to break up blocks of copy, especially on the web. Either use all full sentences or fragments, not a mix.
Shorter text that does not form a complete sentence requires no punctuation, but can be capitalized.
The change in breakfast options was communicated thoroughly:
- Email message
- Article on SAITNOW
- Personal phone calls
Bullet points written as complete sentences that stand on their own start with capital letters at the beginning and punctuation at the end.
Summer was busy on campus this year:
- We welcomed hundreds of children for our summer camps.
- Orientation was well attended with new students starting this fall.
- Minister Bob Loblaw officially opened the renovated John Ware building.
If each bullet point can be read as a full sentence in conjunction with the introduction, only the last one should be followed by punctuation, and none need to be capitalized. Only use this method if all the bullet points can be read as full sentences with the introduction.
Students who wish to graduate must:
- ensure they have completed all academic requirements for their program
- complete an application to graduate
- indicate their intention to attend convocation by registering.
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.