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Grammar QuickRules J-Stylebook
QuickRules. checklist: up/down
long/short spell out/digitize "quote marks."
commas? "Titles" apostrophes? J-Stylebook QuickRules | exercises
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.]
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).
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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.]
NewsPlace: Reference
for more grammar links, stylebooks and writing tips.
- To copy just a part of a web page, see
surfing tips.
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.
NewsPlace.org [N.E.W.S., Sources, Tools,
WhiteHouse '04]
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Professor Avi
Bass (abass@niu.edu), Northern Illinois University.
- Journalism Stylebook Matters ©azb 2000, 2008
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