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PHILOSOPHY: Practice stylebook rules on the Web as homework. A quiz and an exam are provided. A companion 44-page handbook, "The Journalism QuickGuide" (online and bulk discounts), includes the J-Stylebook, which is content-grouped with sections on Capitalization, Abbreviations, Numbers, Words, and Punctuation.   Sample: abbreviations. A 26-page excerpt, "Journalism QuickRules" (online and bulk discounts), is focused on the grammar and J-Stylebook sections. Online material for a semester-long J-course is at J-Skills.
 

2007 Major Changes to The Associated Press Stylebook (newsroom101.com)
[Figures for all ages, including animals and inanimate objects: a 3-year-old dog.]
[The U.S. and the U.N. are now accepted as an adjective or as a noun.]

[2003: area codes get hyphens: 312-555-1212, 1-800-555-1212.]

[2002 rule: down this job description: ... professor Ivan Pravda.]

[Abbreviate states (except states with four or five letters, and Alaska and Hawaii)
with a city or locale, using the AP/UPI abbreviations: DeKalb, Ill., ... (DeKalb, Texas, ... )
Use the two-letter form with any zip code: DeKalb, TX 75559.]

AP style worksheets (Sage Colleges) [with answer keys]

Quiz. [half hour] Go to the J-Skills: Stylebook quiz [with an answer key].

Exam. [half hour] Go to the Journalism Stylebook Exam (Northern Illinois University).

[ TOP MISSPELLED WORDS IN THE AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA
[By Factiva, a Dow Jones company, 2007.
[Judgment, lightning, millennium, calendar, cemetery, accommodate, collectible,
receive or receipt, committed, separate.]

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J-Skills [newswriting & PR writing exercises]

J-skills was accepted for a peer-reviewed presentation at the "Digital Revolution" conference on Oct. 14, 2004, at the Newsplex, College of Mass Communications, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

  Professor Avi Bass (abass@niu.edu), Northern Illinois University.

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