What is the difference between Chicago style vs. business English?
Answer The answer is too long to explain in full, but some of the big differences include the serial comma, capitalization, and abbreviations. For example, we were taught in school not to use a comma after the last item in a series: The flag is red, white and blue. In Chicago Style, preferred by book publishers, we use the comma: The flag is red, white, and blue. In school we learned to capitalize the word president when referring to the president of the United States: Mike wants to run for President when he grows up. In Chicago Style it is capitalized only when used with the name: Mike wants to run for president when he grows up. He wrote to President Carter to get some tips on how to do so. In school we learned a form of business English that uses abbreviations for some terminology that Chicago Style spells out in full, especially the names of states. You can get all the information from The Chicago Manual of Style, which costs about $30, but it has more information than you’ll ever
