I want to write "dos and don'ts", or an equivalent expression, in a university essay. I am assuming that it is not very academic to write "dos and don'ts", so does anyone have a better way of putti...
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The following nGram suggests that dos and donts, do's and don'ts, and do's and don't's are all used, but it appears that do's and don'ts takes the cake. A quick search suggested that capitalizing all but the s is also fairly popular:
Financial Post: Keep your shirt on: Dos and don'ts for that long-overdue update to your LinkedIn profile
Keep your shirt on: Dos and don'ts for that long-overdue update to your LinkedIn profile