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Media Writing And Editing Styleguide
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journalism-and-media
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Takes plural verb - use it to mean one or the other - not both - right: she said to use either door - wrong: there were lions on either side of the door
stationery
flout
either
buses
2. To embarrass or disturb
assure
faze
widower
rebut
3. Woman to be married
fiancee
primiere
flair
century
4. Do not use before a date or day of the week (redundant) except at the beginning of a sentence.
on
insure
busses
firefighter - police officer
5. Capitalize if part of a proper noun - lowercase in other uses.
buss
criteria
hanged
City Council
6. Two objects must be in motion before they can ____.
collide - collision
alumnae
mean
troop
7. To stand still
stationary
daylight saving time
hopefully
Internet
8. A picture - a criminal or oneself
hung
hang - hangs
flaunt
accept
9. When referring to a group of women who attended a school
toward
all right
alumnae
mean
10. Two people look at - can be used when the number of people being used is indefinite
each other
aide
impostor
accommodate
11. Writes or speakers ____s in the words they use
plurality
homicide
imply
majority
12. Used in the United Kingdom or other monarchies. Citizen is also acceptable.
subject
altar
defendant
compliment
13. To avoid any suggestion that someone is being judged before a trial - do not use a phrase such as arrested for killing. Instead - use arrested on a charge of killing. If a charge hasn't been filed - arrested on suspicion of - or a similar phrase - sh
daylight saving time
buss
arrest
impostor
14. To abduct - rape or carry away with emotion not interchangeable with ravage
ravish
flare
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
imply
15. Twice a year (same as semiannual)
whom
biannual
average
like
16. Use instead "survived by his wife" or "leaves his wife" not ______ of the late
afterward
City Hall
OK - OK'd - OK'ing - OKs
widow
17. Homicide without malice or premeditation
pore
person
manslaughter
like
18. Not savings - no hyphen - when linking term with the name of a time zone - use only the word daylight (capitalize only when used with a time zone) - lowercase in all uses
Orient - Oriental
daylight saving time
pore
each other
19. The correct word to introduce clauses - .e.g Jayne blocks the linebacker __ he should
as
Cabinet
criterion
widower
20. Extension of time or degree
ravish
login - logon - logoff
further
Black muslim
21. One who comes into a country ___s to it
liaison
immigrate
figuratively
stationery
22. Legal term for slaying or killing
further
effect
homicide
plead - pleaded - pleading - plurals
23. A decentralized worldwide network of computers that can communicate with each other in later references the Net is acceptable - World Wide Web - like email - is a subset of the Internet. They are not synonymous and should not be used interchangeably.
sneaked
fiancee
muslims
Internet
24. The of is unnecessary
emigrate
hang - hangs
compliment
off of
25. Writing paper
marshal
except
stationery
widow
26. Plural form of problem or turning point
under way
crises
alumnae
italics
27. Correct spelling for a word that means a channel for communication between groups
liaison
whose
City Hall
login - logon - logoff
28. Books - computer games - movies - operas - plays - poems - albums and songs - radio and tv programs - lectures - speeches and works of art should all: - capitalize principal words - capitalize an article - quotes around these works that are not: reli
composition titles
less
arrest
subject
29. Is acceptable on first reference to avoid a cumbersome lead - but provide the full name in the body of the story - HQ is in Baltimore
faze
NAACP
accommodate
troop
30. Capitalize as a title and lowercase in all other forms
off of
president
italics
adviser
31. Do not use when referring to East Asian nations and their peoples. Asian is the acceptable term for an inhabitant of these nations
buses
immigrate
accept
Orient - Oriental
32. Verb to stop the flow of something
stanch
flyer
bus
because
33. Bulk or quantity reduced in number
stationary
less
semiannual
courtesy titles
34. Acceptable but use Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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35. Means to influence
affect
busses
native
buses
36. Only for ensembles of actors - dancers - singers - etc.
like
troupe
half staff
heaven
37. Is the possessive of who
hung
whose
murder
fewer
38. AP does not italicize words in news stories.
italics
president
among
pour
39. A contraction for it is or it has
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40. In the sense of mass communication - such as magazines - newspapers - the news services - radio - television ad online
alumna
media
more than
fiance
41. Never towards - for a word meaning: moving in a specific direction
sneaked
resident
faze
toward
42. A noun and adjective meaning someone or something first in rank - authority - importance or degree.
ravage
principal
badly
afterward
43. Not hyphenated when referring to electronic mail - hyphenate other e- terms such as: e-book or e-commerce
as
affect
email
hopefully
44. The term denoting that an individual was born in a given location
native
that
adviser
in-law
45. Is to wreak great destruction or devastation not interchangeable with ravish
average
ravage
emigrate
each other
46. Personal pronoun describing the deity are lowercase
his
alumnae
rack
flair
47. Means to gaze intently or steadily
Cabinet
subject
defendant
pore
48. The proper name for some trains and buses
murder
flyer
stationery
muslims
49. For hanging not referring to a person's death
accommodate
national
except
hung
50. Implies that another person caused the death by holding the victims head under the water.
was drowned
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who
each