Editors’ Use of Comprehensive Style Guides: The Case of Singular They
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2023-07-26
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We asked 15 editors about their perceptions of five sentences using singular they in different contexts and about the style guides that inform their work. Editors appreciated the inclusivity of indefinite and definite singular they and recognized APA for its leading-edge stance. Our findings indicate the need for editors to develop a heuristic for determining when to deviate from style guide advice and to develop their own system for mitigating ambiguity in relation to they.
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This accepted article is published as Mackiewicz, J., Kraut, S., Durazzi, A., “Editors’ Use of Comprehensive Style Guides: The Case of Singular They.” Technical Communication Quarterly, 33 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2023.2236671
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This article is under CC BY-NC-ND license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/